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Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov (1879-1952): На сопках Маньчжурии / On The Hills Of Manchuria
Arranged for mandolins by Evelyn Tiffany-Castilgioni.

This popular Russian waltz was written in 1906 to...

Here's an updated recording of "Sea Of Heartbreak", made last week. Great fun on mandolin!

Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar



Plus another old song from the same...

We don't often post about the "medieval" part of this forum's title.

Neidhart von Reuental (c. 1190 - c. 1237) was one of the most famous German minnesingers (troubadours), and the one who left...

I've been revisiting some of my old recordings this year, with a different recording technique better reflecting the live performance. "Your Shining Eyes And Golden Hair" has been a favourite of...

Coming late to this discussion. I have considerable experience with Ceccherini mandolins -- there are two of them in my avatar, and I have bought and sold several more. Wonderful instruments, and...

Further to my 2016 recording of this famous tango, here is a simpler arrangement on just mandolin and tenor guitar.

Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar



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Thanks, Mick -- much appreciated! Santa Lucia may be a clichee, but it's great fun to play. I'm trying to develop a less rigid recording style which allows for rubato and expressiveness while still...

I'm re-recording some of my old stuff at the moment. Here is Santa Lucia, this time with more rubato than my 2016 recording and more of a "live" feeling. Same arrangement.

1890s Umberto...

Score for Reginella, for my SAW post here.

Here is another of my lockdown re-recordings of pieces from our repertoire folder: this is the Jim Hulley arrangement of Toselli's Serenade (see above for PDF score).

For this stripped down home...

During the current on-off lockdown, I have been re-recording some of the arrangements that we normally play during our weekly mandolin gatherings. Here is another one I did over the weekend,...

I have been re-recording some of the tunes from our group repertoire in a more "live" setting for the past few months. Here is "Vieni sul mar", using the arrangement from the PDF I posted in 2014 in...

Ernesto de Curtis (1875-1937): Torna a Surriento (Come Back To Sorrento)
Arranged by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni

This is one of the classic Neapolitan songs, recorded by everybody. Somewhat...

Thanks Eugene -- I really like that interpretation by Artemandoline, although I only came across it after recording my own quite different (and considerably less virtuosic) version of the Arrigoni...

If you're looking for mixed mandolin/violin repertoire, I am fond of this Sonata for mandolin, violin and basso by Carlo Arrigoni, which may work if you can adapt the basso part to be played by one...

Just received from the British BMG Federation Committee:

"Saturday 10th October marks the 10th anniversary of the late, great British mandolin maestra Alison Stephens and you are invited to join...

Thank you very much for the new Summer Suite, John!

I've just finished an initial read-through on mandocello, and like its two predecessors it's great fun to play. I still need to get my head...

I don't know if the album is still available but wanted to add to Eugene's voice that it's a wonderful recording, probably my favourite album of Alison's. The unaccompanied solo setting really gave...

Charles Avison (1709-1770): Trio Sonata in E minor, Op. 1, No. 5 (c. 1736)
4. Allegro ma grazioso

Arranged by Alfred Moffat, 1910. Score from IMSLP:
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Thanks, John. Measure 13 sounded fine to me when I was playing -- I was wondering more about the d# in the previous measure. I did play the g# in measure 29, even though I found it sounded a bit...

I haven't updated my mandocello playlist for a while. Here are three solo mandocello videos I made since lockdown started in March:

Saraband (William Lawes, 1602-1645):



March of the King...

Thanks, Barry! Following your suggestion, I got my mandocello out and have played this Lawes saraband using John's fingering but transposed down to A minor. You are right that this works really well...

Thanks, John!

The score and parts I used for my recording are from the wonderful collection of viol music that Albert Folop transcribed many years ago, orginally for the Icking Archive which is...

Very nice, John! Lawes was court composer for Charles I, and was a very interesting composer, very different from the Tudor/renaissance composers before him or the high baroque of Purcell after him....

Not a waldzither, I think -- there definitely are 11- (and 13-) string waldzithers around in addition to the more common 9-string, but this instrument is too small and the string configuration is all...