Classical Guitar London

At last!!! I'm delighted that John McLeod's marvellous Guitar Concerto is now available to hear on YouTube. This - a live concert performance at Music Hall Aberdeen in 2010 - is the only recording of the work. In it, the composer conducts the Aberdeen Sinfonietta with yours truly (Ian Watt) as soloist! You even get to hear my first (and only) published 'composition' in the form of the 3rd movement's cadenza, which of course consists entirely of McLeod's wonderful themes and culminates in a dramatic fugue which juxtaposes several of them (so I only have myself to blame for the difficulty of that passage!).

Of course, the performance is live, audio-only, and far from perfect, but the work is so good it seems a crime to keep it locked up on some external hard drive.

Enjoy, and please leave your comments under the video!

John McLeod: Guitar Concerto (live) John McLeod conducts the 3rd performance of his Guitar Concerto, live at the Music Hall in Aberdeen, November 2010, with the works’s dedicatee, Ian Watt, as ...

At last!!! I'm delighted that John McLeod's marvellous Guitar Concerto is now available to hear on YouTube. This - a live concert performance at Music Hall Aberdeen in 2010 - is the only recording of the work. In it, the composer conducts the Aberdeen Sinfonietta with yours truly (Ian Watt) as soloist! You even get to hear my first (and only) published 'composition' in the form of the 3rd movement's cadenza, which of course consists entirely of McLeod's wonderful themes and culminates in a dramatic fugue which juxtaposes several of them (so I only have myself to blame for the difficulty of that passage!).

Of course, the performance is live and far from perfect, but the work is so good it seems a crime to keep it locked up on some external hard drive.

Enjoy, and please leave your comments under the video!

https://youtu.be/htjQbglEkug

Speaking to Daniela Rossi for tonight's podcast was such a pleasure, and you'll LOVE the excerpts from her exquisite recent recording of Regondi. Catch it at 20:00 tonight at:

Unwound - Music in Conversation with Ian Watt: Daniela Rossi Ian Watt speaks to the wonderful guitarist Daniela Rossi about her recent exquisite album of works by Regondi. 00:00 - Introduction01:53 - Daniela Rossi04:4...