The Intimate Guitar

SATURDAYS @ 6PM AND SUNDAYS @ 9AM

The Intimate Guitar is Jim McCutcheon's weekly celebration of "the instrument held closest to the heart." Jim presents selections from a vast library of music and artists from around the world for the guitar in both solo and chamber settings. At the end of each program, Jim offers a bit of "dessert" - artistic, non-classical performances including jazz, fingerstyle and other fretted instruments.

5/31

On this week's Intimate Guitar, Japanese lutenist Yasunori Imamura performs a cello suite by Bach, French guitarist Armen Doneyan plays pieces by Dubuz and Tansman, Spanish guitarist Andrea Gonzalez-Caballero performs selections by Manuel Lopez-Quiroga, and for dessert, Bob Hadley shares his Celtic Reverie.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008

Yasunori Imamura, theorbo

Johann Dubez: Fantaisie on Hungarian Themes

Armen Doneyan, guitar

Alexandre Tansman: Passacaille

Armen Doneyan, guitar

Manuel Lopez-Quiroga: Four Pieces

Andrea Gonzalez-Caballero, guitar

Bob Hadley: Celtic Reverie

Bob Hadley, guitar

6/6

On this weekend's episode, lutenist Paul O'Dette performs music by John Dowland, Ethan Lorentz interprets Schubert lieder on guitar, and Iliana Matos plays selections from her album A Solas. You'll also hear Bela Bartok performed on guitar and recorder, and for dessert, Hawaiian slack key guitarist Jim Kimo West plays selections from his album Guitar Stories.

6/7

6/13

On this week’s Intimate Guitar, lutenist Ronn McFarland plays music by the late-Renaissance composer John Dowland; AriusDuo performs a piece for guitar and flute by Luigi Legnani; the Italian chamber group Ensemble Sinigaglia interpret traditional songs of the Piedmont region; banjo and guitar trio, the Kruger Brothers, perform original music with Kontras Quartet; and for dessert, the soothing finger-picking of Keith Driskill from his album, A Time of Innocence.

6/14