Classical Guitar Alive!

Series produced by Tony Morris

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Classical Guitar Alive 

Classical Guitar Alive! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is free to all stations. Broadcast each week on 250+ stations. Sound-rich, energetic, positive vibe. A bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

Classical Guitar Alive! features great music and fascinating interviews with many of the world's leading guitar performers and composers.

Join host Tony Morris for Classical Guitar Alive!, an unabashedly enthusiastic and fast-paced romp through the classical repertory of the world's most-played musical instrument.

Nationally-distributed since 1997, Classical Guitar Alive currently airs each week on over 250 radio stations in the US, Canada, and internationally.

Classical Guitar Alive highlights a vast repertoire of music ranging from Medieval through present-day solo, chamber, and orchestral music with guitar. In addition to presenting works by American performers and composers, the program also explores guitar-related music of other cultures.

The program has been acclaimed by both critics and the public alike, and has been applauded by artists as diverse as Yale University professor of music Benjamin Verdery and ex-Led Zeppelin rock guitarist Jimmy Page. Hide full description

Classical Guitar Alive! features great music and fascinating interviews with many of the world's leading guitar performers and composers. Join host Tony Morris for Classical Guitar Alive!, an unabashedly enthusiastic and fast-paced romp through the classical repertory of the world's most-played musical instrument.Nationally-distributed since 1997, Classical Guitar Alive currently airs each week on over 250 radio stations in the US, Canada, and internationally. Classical Guitar Alive highlights a vast repertoire of music ranging from Medieval through present-day solo, chamber, and orchestral music with guitar. In addition to presenting works by American performers and composers, the program also explores guitar-related music of other cultures. The program has been acclaimed by both... Show full description


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Caption: Stephen Robinson, Credit: Stephen Robinson
This week's edition of the Classical Guitar Alive! features interviews with Oregon Guitar Quartet member Bryan Johanson, who discusses their CD “Cl...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 49
Caption: Bela Fleck, Credit: Bela Fleck
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music by Beethoven and more, and interviews with Grammy-winning banjo player/arranger/compos...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 40
Caption: Liisa Randalu, Credit: Liisa Randalu
This edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music spanning four centuries from Scotland, Spain, Australia, and the Amazon and more, including ...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Hopkinson Smith, Credit: Philippe Gontier
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features the world premiere recording of a new concerto by Australian composer Ross Edwards, and mus...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 44
Caption: Fabio Zanon, Credit: Fabio Zanon
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features two Brazilian Rarities: Villa-Lobos: Introduction to the Choro, Radames Gnattali: Concerto f...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 47
Caption: Frank Wallace, Credit: Frank Wallace
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features new music from Mexico, Uruguay, and the United States, plus a classic of the Spanish guitar...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 41
Caption: Leo Brouwer, Credit: Leo Brouwer
This edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Agustin Barrios Mangoré, Leo Brouwer’s 5th Guitar Concerto “Helsinki”, one of Carulli’s l...

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 44
Caption: Lily Afshar, Credit: Lily Afshar
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Silvius Leopold Weiss, Fernando Sor, Vladislav Uspensky, Peter Lanksy, and Asik Ve...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 46
Caption: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Assad Duo, Credit: Nonesuch Records
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features two concerto premieres, including Sergio Assad’s triple concerto, “Originis,” for violinis...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 44
Caption: Amadeus Duo, Credit: Amadeus Duo
This week’s Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Handel, Chopin, and more, and interviews with Malaysian-born virtuoso and respected pedagogue...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 47
Caption: Jorge Cabellero & Axis String Quartet, Credit: Jorge Cabellero & Axis String Quarte
This week’s program features songs and dances by Granados, Turina, Llobet, and more, and the world premiere of Jorge Morel’s “Songs and Dances” for...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 44
Caption: Victor Villadangos, Credit: Victor Villadangos
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features our second look at music by Argentine composers, with works by Piazzolla, Morel, Blazquez, ...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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Caption: Andres Segovia, Credit: Wikipedia
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Granados, Rodrigo, Falla, and archived commentary by the legendary Spanish guitari...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 45
Caption: Mark Mancina, Credit: photo by Tony Morris 2016
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach, Giuliani, Torroba, Fred Hand, and a 2016 interview with 3-time Grammy-winnin...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 42
Caption: Javier Calderon, Credit: Javier Calderon
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a recording by Spanish guitarist Javier Riba (Albeniz) and also music by Hovhaness, Maximo ...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 49
Caption: Isaac Bustos, Credit: Isaac Bustos
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Vivaldi, Legnani, American composer Allan Cohen, Agustin Barrios Mangoré, an inter...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 46
Caption: LA Guitar Quartet, Credit: Delos Records
This week’s Classical Guitar Alive! features traditional and new music for Christmas and interviews with Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd and American...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 35
Caption: Amsterdam Guitar Trio, Credit: RCA Records
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive features music about Winter, and more, including works by Vivaldi, Piazzolla, and the young Polish gu...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 48
Caption: Berta Rojas, Credit: Berta Rojas
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features interviews with Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas, French guitarist Judicael Perroy, Scottis...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 52
Caption: Jacqueline Du Pre, Credit: Telegraph UK
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Falla, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Baumann, and Heinze, and an interview with composer an...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 51