John McLeod conducts the 3rd performance of his Guitar Concerto, live at the Music Hall in Aberdeen, November 2010, with the works’s dedicatee, Ian Watt, as soloist.

Guitar Concerto - John McLeod (1934-2022)

00:02 - Introduzione e Danza
07:45 - Cantilena
13:23 - Finale Capriccioso

Guitar Soloist: Ian Watt

Aberdeen Sinfonietta
Conductor: John McLeod

Sound recording: Chris Overton

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Links to information on the ‘wondrously gifted’ John McLeod:

Ian’s Podcast (the called ‘Sounding Out’ but now part of the ‘Unwound’ series) on John McLeod, where he interviewed the virtuoso pianist and friend of John McLeod’s, Murray McLachlan, can be seen here:

   • Sounding Out: The Music of John McLeo...  

Other links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mc...)

https://slippedisc.com/2022/03/sadnes...

https://web.archive.org/web/201106081...

http://www.johnmcleod.uk.com

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Acclaimed by the press as a 'dazzlingly virtuosic' (The Herald) guitarist 'of outstanding skill and originality' (Classical Guitar) with 'an exceptional range of timbre...sublime' (BBC Music Magazine),  Ian Watt first came to public attention as a 16-year-old finalist on the 2007 BBC Classical Star TV programme.  In 2009,  he was awarded 2nd prize at the highly prestigious Parkening International Guitar Competition in the USA, where Soundboard magazine described him as an '18 year-old phenom'.  He went on to take 1st prize at the Heinsberg Competition in 2011 and has recorded 3 albums for Nimbus Records.  A respected teacher, he joined the guitar faculty of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at just 21.

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