Strings Across Centuries: Guitarist Virgile Barthe
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Winner of the 2025 Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artists Competition, French guitarist Virgile Barthe is a rising classical guitar star. Blending traditional technique with fresh, modern interpretations, his performances are both compelling and distinctive.
This concert program traces a vivid journey across centuries and styles, revealing the guitar’s remarkable expressive range. Buxtehude’s Suite in E Minor unfolds with Baroque elegance and clarity while Scarlatti’s Three Sonatas bring brilliance, wit, and Iberian fire to the fore and Michael Abels’s Yarn offers a striking and cinematic contemporary contrast. Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte distills Romantic lyricism into intimate, song-like reflections before Nicholas Maw’s Music of Memory closes the program with a meditative, searching sound world that lingers long after the final note.
Runtime: 1 hour and 20 minutes
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