Bradford Werner performs No.23 Les balancelles by Dyens

Bradford Werner performs No.23 Les balancelles (Dedicated to Emilio Pujol) by Roland Dyens on classical guitar. Les Productions d’OZ with the help of Louis Trépanier have enlisted numerous guitarists to perform and record the complete Les 100 de Roland Dyens on YouTube. The set is 100…

Bradford Werner Plays Lachrimae by John Dowland

Lachrimae (Poulton No.15) by John Dowland (1563-1626) on classical guitar. Originally for Renaissance lute. “This solo work was later arranged and composed into the Lachrimæ or seaven teares.The seven pavans are variations on a theme, the “Lachrimæ pavan”, which Dowland had already made well known as a…

Bradford Werner Plays La Traditora No.2 by Marco Dall’Aquila

Bradford Werner Plays La Traditora No.2 (Saltarello) by Marco Dall’Aquila (c.1480-1538) on classical guitar. Marco Dall’Aquila was a Venetian lutenist and composer born in L’Aquila but resided and worked in Venice. He is known mainly for his Ricercars which make up the majority of his surviving…

Bradford Werner Plays Cello Suite No.2, BWV 1008 by Bach

Bradford Werner Plays Cello Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) for classical guitar. Movements in this suite: Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuets, Gigue. You can find my pdf sheet music edition for this work…

Bradford Werner Plays Capirola

Bradford Werner performs La Vilanela, Balletto, Canto Bello, Gentil Prince from the Capirola Lutebook by Vincenzo Capirola (1474–c.1548) arranged for classical guitar. I also made a sheet music edition that you can check out: Capirola Lutebook Volume 1 from Werner Guitar Editions. The…

Bradford Werner Plays Suite pour Guitare Op.41 by Jacques Hétu

Bradford Werner plays Suite pour Guitare Op.41 by Canadian composer Jacques Hétu (1938-2010). I’ve been meaning to record this suite for a long time. The suite was commissioned and premiered by Alvaro Pierri with support of the Canada Council for…

Bradford Werner Plays Six Pavans by Luis de Milan

Bradford Werner plays Six Pavans by Luis de Milan (c.1500-1561) – Originally for vihuela. The six pavans (pavanes, or pavanas) by Luis de Milán (c.1500-1561), also Luys Milán, come from his Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado El Maestro…

Bradford Werner Plays Weiss Sonata IX

Bradford Werner Plays Sonata IX in C Major by Weiss

Sonata IX in C Major by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750) – Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Bourée, Sarabande, Menuet 1 & 2, Presto. Arranged for Classical Guitar by Bradford Werner. Comes with a fingered editorial edition and an unfingered non-editorial edition (see preface…

Bradford Werner plays Tombeau by Weiss

Here I am playing Tombeau sur la Mort de M. Comte d’Logy arrivée 1721 (London Manuscript) by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750). One of the most important Baroque lutenists and composers and a direct contemporary of Bach, we are very lucky…

Bradford Werner Plays Dyens

Bradford Werner plays Impressions soleil couchant by Dyens

Bradford Werner plays Impressions soleil couchant (à Francis Poulenc) by Roland Dyens (1955-2016) and via my YouTube. I’m posting weekly student and intermediate pieces on my guitar blog. I love this simple hommage to Poulenc that I’ll pair with Poulenc’s Sarabande. This comes from Dyen’s…

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