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Irish flautist Aisling Agnew's site.
www.cgretreat.com
Matthew's Classical Guitar Retreat
www.cgs.net.my
Classical Guitar Society, Malaysia.
www.chessworld.net
Challenge Matthew to a game!
www.delcamp.net
Excellent classical guitar recource. Jean-François Delcamp
www.douglaswhates.com
musician/composer/bassist
www.duolisme.com
Guitar duo from Holland
www.feargushetherington.com
Maelasta duo partner.
www.fluteguitarduo.com
The Agnew & McAllister Duo's website.
www.frevoquartet.com
The website of Frevo Quartet
www.gifest.com
Ordu international guitar festival
www.gitaarsalon.nl
Home of the legendary Recuerdos GitaarSalon in Enkhuizen.
www.glenngould.com
legendary
www.guitaralive.org
International Classical Guitar Radio
www.kelvintrio.com
Home of the Kelvin Trio
www.kentguitarclassics.com
International dealers in finest quality classical and Flamenco guitars
www.kwakkel.com
Bert Kwakkel, luthier.
www.livemusicnow.org
The website for Live Music Now!
www.naturalstudio.co.uk/records
My record label's website.
www.nescgs.co.uk
North East Scotland Classical Guitar Society
www.nsrmcallister.wordpress.com
Matthew McAllister Musing
www.oldiges-guitars.com
Guitars by Gerhard Oldiges
www.ralphtowner.com
Guitarist/improviser, Ralph Towner.
www.ssba.org.uk
Scottish Spina Bifida Association
www.tokafi.com
Discover & share great new music!
www.uwsclassicalguitarsociety.com
Robert Geary's UWS Classical Guitar Society
www.vamu.se
Dynarette cushion support
www.williamsimcoe.com
New York guitarist William Simcoe
www.worldguitarist.com
Daily news for classical guitar.
www.youtube.com/nsrmcallister
Matthew's channel on YouTube!
Here is a little footage from a recent concert Matthew gave in Crail in the East Neuk of Fife.
This is the first movement of Suite No.2 by Leo Brouwer, it is entitled Preludio.
Below are some fantastic videos from Matthew’s recent trip to the Gitaarsalon, in Enkhuizen, Holland. Matthew was joined on the trip by flautist Aisling Agnew.
Matthew & Aisling gave an evening recital in the Gitaarsalon and also spent an extra day there filming. Here are just a handful of the videos that were made.
Credit goes to the very talented Peter de Vos, Frank Reijgersberg & Ron Gundelach for video and audio.
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Below are some videos from a recent solo lunchtime concert Matthew gave in The Younger Hall of St Andrews University.
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Below you can see a short film of Organist Stuart Muir with Oboist Rona Pollard & Matthew performing Satie’s Gymnopédie.
The melody of the piece uses a deliberate, but mild, dissonance against the harmony, producing a piquant, melancholy effect that matches the performance instructions, which are to play each piece “slowly“, “dolorously“ or “gravely“.
This film is taken from the Organ Centenary Concert at St Nicholas Parish Church in Prestwick, Scotland.
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A short film from a recent concert Matthew gave with his Maelasta duo partner Feargus Hetherington featuring The Sherlock Violin. The film also features an interesting interview with Steve Burnett, the maker of The Sherlock Violin.
The concert took place at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh and featured repertoire by Molino, Paganini, Bach, Chopin & Stevenson.
Below you can read the review of the concert written by Susan Nickalls that appeared in The Scotsman.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND
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Maelasta – Feargus Hetherington & Matthew McAllister
“PART of the enduring fascination with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is the darker, more melancholic side of his nature, which he often soothed by playing the violin.
The violin and guitar duo Maelasta shed some tantalising light on what music Holmes might have listened to, as well as what, and how, he might have played, with violinist Feargus Hetherington performing on the Sherlock Violin.
This had been carved by local violin maker Steve Burnett out of wood from a tree in the garden of the Edinburgh house where Conan Doyle grew up.
The mellow, earthy tones of the instrument were well suited to the quicksilver preludio from JS Bach’s Partita in E major. Apparently, Holmes preferred German music to French and Italian, particularly in his more introspective moments. He was also partial to long discussions with Watson about Paganini over a bottle of claret.
Guitarist Matthew McAllister pointed out that Paganini was also a superb guitarist, and his Cantabile for guitar and violin reveals a tender, less flamboyant side to the virtuoso.
The telepathic, dance-like interaction between the two musicians is not unlike the relationship between Holmes and Watson.
This close attunement was particularly apparent in the duo’s exquisite arrangement of Ronald Stevenson’s A’e Gowden Lyric, after Hugh MacDiarmid’s poem, with a nod to Burns along the way.
This series of free concerts organised by Live Music Now Scotland, performed against the backdrop of the National Gallery of Scotland’s stunning collection of paintings, is one of the capital’s best-kept secrets.“
Susan Nickalls
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Monday 25th January
Maelasta
Violin & Guitar
Live Music Now!
Time: 1:30pm
Larkhall
Scotland
Tuesday 26th January
Maelasta
Violin & Guitar
Live Music Now!
Time: 11am
Lanark
Scotland
Tuesday 26th January
Maelasta
Violin & Guitar
Live Music Now!
Time: 13:30pm
Broxburn
Scotland
Wednesday 27th January
Maelasta
Violin & Guitar
Live Music Now!
Time: 11am
Hamilton
Scotland
Wednesday 27th January
Maelasta
Violin & Guitar
Live Music Now!
Time: 14:15pm
Mid Calder
Scotland
Friday 5th February
Matthew McAllister & Stuart Muir
Organ & Guitar
Time:7:30pm
Tickets: TBC
Venue: St Nicholas Church
Prestwick
Scotland
Wednesday 17th February
Solo Recital
Time: 1:15pm
Tickets: £3/5
Venue: Younger Hall
St Andrews University
Scotland
Sunday 28th February
Frevo Quartet
Samantha Whates
Time: 7:30pm
Tickets: £8 / 6
Crail Parish Church
Scotland
Sunday 7th March
Solo Recital
Time: 2pm
Tickets: £8 / 6
Crail Parish Church
Scotland
Saturday 13th March
Solo Recital
Time: 7:30pm
Tickets: TBC
Venue: TBC
Passau
Germany
Friday 14th May
Solo Recital
Twents Guitar Festival
Time: 12:30pm
Tickets: 10 Euros
Venue: Concordia Theater
Enschede
The Netherlands
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