The Intimate Guitar

SATURDAYS @ 6PM AND SUNDAYS @ 9AM

The Intimate Guitar is Jim McCutcheon's weekly celebration of "the instrument held closest to the heart." Jim presents selections from a vast library of music and artists from around the world for the guitar in both solo and chamber settings. At the end of each program, Jim offers a bit of "dessert" - artistic, non-classical performances including jazz, fingerstyle and other fretted instruments.

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On this week's Intimate Guitar, Yishai Fisher performs Jean-Philippe Rameau; Agustin Maruri plays Wenzeslaus Matiegka; guitarist Petrit Ceku and violinist Benjamin Schmidt perform chamber music by Paganini; Christophe Dejour plays his own arrangement of a sonata by Antonio Jose; and, for dessert, Hawaiian slack key guitarist Jim Kimo West performs his original composition Moko Maluhia, or Peaceful Island.

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On this week’s Intimate Guitar, the Eos Guitar Quartet performs its own transcription of a Rossini favorite; Edwin Colón Zayas and Jose Antonio Lopez collaborate on a duet by Eduardo Martin; the Pelech & Horna Duo plays Piazzolla; Antonio Rugolo performs a solo guitar composition from Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; An Tran plays traditional Vietnamese guitar music; and for dessert, a live performance courtesy of guitarist Greg Chako and bassist David Lloyd.

Gioachino Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville

Eos Guitar Quartet

Astor Piazzolla: Libertango

Pelech & Horna Duo

Eduardo Martin: Sounds and Flowers

Edwin Colón Zayas, cuatro; Jose Antonio Lopez, guitar

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Sonata, Op. 77

Antonio Rugolo, guitar

Dang Ngoc Long: Rain

Ru Con: Lullaby

An Tran, guitar

Greg Chako: On a Misty Night

Greg Chako, guitar; David Lloyd, bass

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