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Matthew recording at The Cathedral of The Isles
Matthew performing at The Malcolm Sargent Carol Concert at The Carid Hall, Dundee.
Stuart Muir & Matthew McAllister
Jazz Cafe, Costa Rica

Aisling & Matthew performing in the Jazz Cafe, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Aisling & Matthew giving a workshop at the University of Costa Rica

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links

www.aislingagnew.com
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!

concert review

posted · Jan 31, 03:14 PM ::


The members of the Forfar Arts Guild were treated to a wonderful recital on Thursday 24th January, given by the cellist Robert Irvine and the guitarist Matthew McAllister.

The Meffan Hall, liberally decorated by many portraits and other pictures, was an admirable place for such an event, much appreciated by the large number of members who attended.

It was very thoughtful of Robert to give an introdution before each piece played; some pieces were fairly familar, such as the “Valse Sentimental” by Tchaikovsky or the “Swan” by Saint-Saens, but some, I reckon, were totally unknown to most. How many knew of composers called “Zenamon” or “Domeniconi”, for instance? Robert did mention that some of these lesser-known works were obscure in the extreme, and not at all easy to follow, but nevertheless they were well worth listening to. And they were!

Throughout the whole recital, both Robert and Matthew displayed not only very high levels of musicianship, but quite excellent togetherness; they clearly relished playing. But as well as playing together, they gave three “solos” – Robert played part of one of the very well-known solo cello suites by Bach, and Matt played various guitar pieces, one in particular known to be a favourite piece of Segovia’s.

One of Robert’s introductions was just before they played a sonata by Vivaldi; he mentioned that the cello that he was using was made at about the very time that Vivaldi was writing the sonata (probably in the 1730s), which surely enhanced his devotion to that piece, and indeed to all of Vivaldi’s works.

How lucky the Guild is, to be able to have such distinguished musicians playing for us; but not only that, they clearly relished being with us!

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featured concerts

posted· Jan 13, 11:43 PM

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

for a full list of concerts,
click here

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