Month: April 2015
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Looong exam 🙂
Yesterday, on Sunday, I had a longest exam in my life – 8h (!) – and it was orchestration. When I work, I like to have a lot of space to put all my notes on. Nowadays seems, that table in size of two school desk is more or less enough 🙂
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New piece for two violins
Yesterday I started to write a new piece for two violins using African rhythms 🙂 That’s something interesting to think of and try. We, guitarists, have great Leo Brouwer (whom I had lucky chance to meet in person and talk!), who uses a lot of African rhythms in his music. So why not to try…
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New piece for solo guitar – Tribute to Ilya Muromets a bogatyr
Today I finished another new piece of mine for solo guitar. Here is a short background of the piece: When I was a small kid, my mother used to read me a lot of Russian fairy tales, when I went to bed: breathtaking adventures of strong knights and beautiful princesses, battles between good and evil,…
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Recording of my recent piece “Once Upon A Time In Russia”
Today was a recording of a few pieces for the Presentation of our Guitar Duo. To edit the recording is taking its time: working until 02.00 am… Here is a part of the result – excerpts from my recent piece for two guitars! 🙂 Hope you like it! Many thanks to a great player and guitar…
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I love Savarez Alliance Corum
This time decided to buy a bit more, than only four sets 🙂 Here is work at least for one year. These high quality strings I use already for over more than 10 years and never switched to any other type (I tried several other, but this one is the best for me):
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New piece for guitar duo is coming
Two weeks ago, after my Indian music lesson I was walking home, when suddenly in my head was born a concept of a new piece for two guitars. All the road I was singing the melodies, trying not to forget them. After arriving at my place, I immediately took a pencil and started to write them down,…