Strings Across Centuries: Guitarist Virgile Barthe

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

PROGRAM INFORMATION
BUXTEHUDE Suite in E Minor
SCARLATTI Three Sonatas
MICHAEL ABELS Yarn
MENDELSSOHN Selections from Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words)
MAW Music of Memory

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