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VIDA GQ are heading out to the US in March for our debut concerts in LA and New York City; exciting stuff! First stop is Los Angeles for the Loyola Marymount University Guitar Festival on 27 March closely followed by a concert for the New York Classical Guitar Society at the Baruch Performing Arts Centre. Take a look at our concert diary for further details.

Other up-coming concerts, but this time closer to home are at Peter Symonds College, Winchester  on  Thursday 3 March and Huntingdon Hall Worcester on Saturday 5 March. Looking forward to seeing some of you there!

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VIDA Guitar Quartet perform Baião de Gude by Brazilian guitarist and composer Paulo Bellinati at the Exe Guitar Fest, Exeter Pheonix – 2 April 2010

International Record Review praise VIDA Guitar Quartet’s debut recording “Love, the Magician” BGS118.

“Their range of timbres and colouration is so broad that one really does forget that there are four identical instruments. The excellent arrangements of Falla’s El Amor brujo by Eden, using techniques such as rapid rubbing of the strings and various scordaturas, approximates the orchestral colours of Falla’s work, assisted by the players’ refined tonal control. Reducing the work to just four guitars brings a level of intimacy to the work, particularly in the poignant ‘The Fisherman’s Story’. Ashford’s arrangement of El sombrero de tres picos is well conceived. As the informative booklet notes elucidate, Diaghilev persuaded Falla to revise his pantomime as a ballet, which was premiered in London in 1919 with sets and costumes designed by Picasso, choreographed by Léonide Massine. Most outstanding are the tonal colours in ‘The Corregidor’.” [Read more →]