Mark Arnold Videos : Serenade for guitar & strings, Op. 50 - Malcolm Arnold

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Serenade for guitar & strings, Op. 50 - Malcolm Arnold

www.kevinloh.net https This concerto was recorded live during my debut at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Feb 2011. It is an honour to be the 1st Singaporean to be playing a solo classical guitar concert there after Yang Xue Fei. This is supposedly one of only 5 concert hall in the world with very refine sound acoustics which can be adjusted to suit the instrument. With the help of HSBC, I helped to raise USD 150K for the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund and The Business Times Budding Artist Fund. Unfortunately, there was insufficient video footage during the recording. Through this video, I hope to share with you some of the highlights of my concert. Thank you for supporting me as a young budding artist. And for those watching me for the first time, please do subscribe to my YT channel as well as my FB page. I did not realise it but I finally crossed the 1000000 in YT views and once again thank you for being part of my musical jorney. It is an awesome point in my journey as I managed to attend a master class with John Williams to mark this great period. More about the piece: •Date: 1950 •Composer: Malcolm Arnold •Period: Modern (1910-1949) I really enjoyed playing this concerto. The brief, melodic Serenade was written for, and is dedicated to, Julian Bream, for whom Arnold also wrote his popular Guitar Concerto in 1959. The Serenade was first performed at the Richmond Community Centre Hall in Richmond, Surrey, in the summer of 1955. Bream was the soloist, and the composer ...

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