Music of Mexican composers Carlos Chávez and Manuel Ponce, plus Spaniard Manuel de Falla conducted by Leonard Bernstein, José Serebrier, and Pierre Boulez. Hear soloists Sharon Isbin (guitar) Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano), and Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano).

An interview with one of the world’s most celebrated classical guitarists on the release of his new album, Baroque.

The duo performs their program “Broken Branches” with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chakerto traditional songs from the Middle East, scrutinizing the close cultural and musical ties between East and West. Recorded on June 21 in Bennett Gordon Hall.

Including an all-women lineup of respected pianists.

British classical guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream, highly regarded as one of the most remarkable artists of the post-war era, died today at his home in Wiltshire.

A self-described “science kid,” a simple miscommunication prompted Sharon Isbin to take up the guitar in her youth.

After his period away from music to recover from a hand injury and intense burnout, the guitarist is back with a new album: Sound of Silence.

“For me, the guitar doesn’t have a secret. In the guitar, you will find everything.” These are the words of Eliades Ochoa, the Grammy Award-winning guitarist of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Buena Vista Social Club.

A successful, in-demand touring and recording artist, Pablo Sáinz-Villegas visited WFMT while in town to make his CSO debut in a program of Spanish and Latin American music conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero.

A musical treat even more delicious than an alfajor.

Eden Stell Guitar Duo performed live in the WFMT studios and proved that French baroque music is full of sensualité.

What’s more metal than Bach’s driving bass line, chromatic suspensions, and florid inner voices?

When Levin and his colleague, guitarist Matthew Rodhe, began conversations about how to give back to the community several years ago, they decided they wanted to make a contribution to the people of Yuguelito.