Grammy Award Winning Guitarist Jason Vieaux on Next Fretworks

Cleveland area classical guitarist Jason Vieaux won a Grammy Award last Sunday in Los Angeles in the category of Best Classical Instrumental Solo for his album, Play.  He'll be my guest on the next Fretworks for conversation about his career and some performances recorded when he was in Columbus last month.  I've already featured tracks from this great CD of guitar favorites on the program in the past, but Jason will be playing a couple of them live in the studio for us. Also, for Valentine's Day, we'll hear music from the Butterfly Lover's Violin Concerto arranged for solo guitar and performed by Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang.  The concerto from 1959 is one of the most famous works of Chinese music, with a story line about two young people who fall in love and are kept apart by circumstances, a little like Romeo and Juliet.  In this version though, their spirits are reunited at the end in the form of two butterflies rising up from the tomb and flying away together, never to be separated. The Brazilian Guitar Quartet will play Four Spanish Pieces by Manuel de Falla.  From the 18th century, we'll have a mandolin sonata by Giuseppe Zaneboni. Join me for Fretworks Saturday at 7 pm and Wednesday evening at 7 here on Classical 101.