Classical Guitar Alive!

Series produced by Tony Morris

Caption: Classical Guitar Alive
Classical Guitar Alive 

Classical Guitar Alive! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is free to all stations. Broadcast each week on 250+ stations. Sound-rich, energetic, positive vibe. A bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

Classical Guitar Alive! features great music and fascinating interviews with many of the world's leading guitar performers and composers.

Join host Tony Morris for Classical Guitar Alive!, an unabashedly enthusiastic and fast-paced romp through the classical repertory of the world's most-played musical instrument.

Nationally-distributed since 1997, Classical Guitar Alive currently airs each week on over 250 radio stations in the US, Canada, and internationally.

Classical Guitar Alive highlights a vast repertoire of music ranging from Medieval through present-day solo, chamber, and orchestral music with guitar. In addition to presenting works by American performers and composers, the program also explores guitar-related music of other cultures.

The program has been acclaimed by both critics and the public alike, and has been applauded by artists as diverse as Yale University professor of music Benjamin Verdery and ex-Led Zeppelin rock guitarist Jimmy Page. Hide full description

Classical Guitar Alive! features great music and fascinating interviews with many of the world's leading guitar performers and composers. Join host Tony Morris for Classical Guitar Alive!, an unabashedly enthusiastic and fast-paced romp through the classical repertory of the world's most-played musical instrument.Nationally-distributed since 1997, Classical Guitar Alive currently airs each week on over 250 radio stations in the US, Canada, and internationally. Classical Guitar Alive highlights a vast repertoire of music ranging from Medieval through present-day solo, chamber, and orchestral music with guitar. In addition to presenting works by American performers and composers, the program also explores guitar-related music of other cultures. The program has been acclaimed by both... Show full description


451 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: Mari Mantyla
This week’s program features a keyboard sonata by Cimarosa arranged for guitar and decacorde (10-string guitar), Mertz’s Duo Concertant for guitar ...

Bought by WABE, KTTZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Northwest Public Broadcasting, KENW and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Pepe Romero
This week’s program features the Guitar Quartet No. 2 in C Minor by Heinrich Albert, Ponce’s Sonata III, Carulli’s Concerto in E minor, Op. 140,” a...

Bought by WABE, KTTZ, KENW, KETR-FM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Agustin Barrios and as Nitsuga Mangoré
In honor of the 139th anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Parag...

Bought by WABE, KTTZ, KCME, KENW, KETR-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Manuel Barrueco
CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audienc...

Bought by WABE, KTEP, KTTZ, KCME, KASU and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Ana Vidovic
This week’s program features music by Mendelssohn, Manuel Ponce’s “Sonata Classica ‘Hommage a Fernando Sor,” Radames Gnattali’s Sonatina for cello ...

Bought by WABE, KTEP, KTTZ, RadioFreePalmer, KCME and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Duo Assad
This week’s program features music by Silvius Leopold Weiss, Marcello, the Suite Azanca for accordion, guitar and strings by Albert Hamann, a new g...

Bought by WABE, WICR, KTEP, KTTZ, WHQR and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Giuseppe Buscemi and Cy Leo
This week’s program features music by Bach’s Fuge in G Minor for lute, Mexican composer Manuel Ponce’ Sonata Mexicana, Sergio Assad’s “Interchange ...

Bought by KWBU, WKGC, WABE, WUOT 91.9 FM, KTEP and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 32
Caption: Toyohiko Satoh
This week’s program features Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor, from the 2nd Violin Partita played on Baroque lute, Napoleon Coste’s Grand Duo for two gui...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, WNMU-FM, KACU, WABE, KCUR and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 53
Caption: Francisco Tarrega
This week’s program features music by Bach, Rodrigo, Leo Brouwer, and Tarrega’s “Capricho Arabe,” performed on Tarrega’s own 1888 Torres guitar.

Bought by WABE, WMRA, KBIA, WBAA, KACU and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 54
Caption: Pepe Romero
This week’s program features Bach’s Italian Concerto, Giuliani’s Guitar Concerto No. 2, Mangoré’s Mazurka Apassionata, and Jaime Zenamon’s Reflecti...

Bought by WABE, WHQR, WMRA, KBIA, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 56
Caption: Scott Tennant, Credit: GuitarCoop
This special APRIL FOOL’S edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! explores the more unusual and sometimes humorous aspects of the guitar’s recorded repe...

Bought by WABE, WUOT 91.9 FM, WMRA, WBAA, KBIA and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 52
Caption: Arvo Part and Manuel Barrueco
This week’s program features Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Mozart’s Sonata No. 15, Theme and Variation by Brahms, Arvo Part’s “Fratres,” Dowland/C...

Bought by WABE, WUOT 91.9 FM, WMRA, KTEP, WBAA and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
Caption: Giuseppe Buscemi and Cy Leo
This week’s program features music by an Anonymous Baroque composer, Sor, Carulli, Falla, Celedonio Romero, Villa-Lobos, and Castlenuovo-Tedesco.

Bought by WABE, KSTK, KEDT, WMRA, WBAA and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 57
Caption: Lorenzo Micheli
This week’s program features music by Sanz, Herbert Baumann, Leo Brouwer, l’Hoyer, Clarice Assad, and an interview with SoloDuo member Lorenzo Mich...

Bought by WABE, KSTK, WHQR, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMRA and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 57
Caption: European Guitar Quartet
This week’s program features music by Agustin Barrios Mangoré, Bach’s French Suite No. 5, Czech composer Milan Tesar’s Carousel Suite, the rarely-h...

Bought by WABE, KEDT, KSTK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 55
Caption: Duo Abreu
This week’s program features music by Giuliani, Vivaldi, Salvador Castro, Castlenuovo-Tedesco, and two 21st Century guitar composers: Mathias Duple...

Bought by WABE, KEDT, WHQR, WUAL, WEKU and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 60
Caption: Giorgio Mirto
This week’s program features music by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, and Giorgio Mirto’s “Nowegian Memories” guitar concerto with string orchestra.

Bought by WABE, WUAL, WEKU, KSTK, WMRA and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 57
Caption: Artis Guitar Duo
This week’s program features music by opera composers including Rossini, Lully, Bizet, Puccini, Granados, and Purcell, and Stephen Goss’s solo guit...

Bought by WABE, KEDT, WEKU, WUAL, WMRA and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 57
Caption: Duo Melis
This week’s program features music by Agustin Barrios Mangoré, Fernando Sor, Antoine de L’hoyer, Sir Lennox Berkeley, and Massimo Palumbo, and an i...

Bought by WABE, KEDT, WEKU, WUAL, WMRA and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 59
Caption: Heike Matteson
This week’s program features music by Catharina Josepha Pratten, Bach, Piazzolla, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Platero & I” for guitar and narrator (base...

Bought by WABE, WEKU, WUAL, WHQR, WMRA and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 56