Hotel Mark

Enjoy this lovely Bach Prelude, played by Xaranova from Youtube.

Sometimes known as Vals Romantica, this waltz is possibly my favourite piece by Agustin Barrios, and one of the guitar’s most coveted pieces for recording. It has perfect form, A,B,A,C,A, with the sad main theme recurring throughout. It’s overtly romantic charm, poetic melancholy has likened it to Chopin.

I think of this one as the “Tragic Clown” piece…Like a circus performer who is paid to do party pieces and tricks, amusing people along the way, making them laugh, but deep down he is this sad figure because he is not doing what he wants to do, creating feelings of lament and un-fulfilment. In the music, the main theme is one of yearning, in between there follows two themes, the second one is of landler like gaity, brighter, sparkling moments, but always the sad theme comes back to haunt.

Enjoy this great performence of this piece by David Russell.

I’m going through some Beatles songs, many of them have made great guitar arrangements. I will upload some of those which I like, first off, I found this on Youtube, by Gazplpn, Penny Lane.