Nice solo piece.

[Caleb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnd2EkHvT2Q

Found this lady while watching Vivaldi mandolin videos. I'm always amazed by the technique of classical players. This is a nice piece if you have about ten minutes to spare. Not the best audio.

[vkioulaphides]

Thanks, Caleb! That's my Suite for Ali, written for the unforgettable Alison Stephens. Elena gives a heartfelt, passionate reading of that score on this performance.

If anyone would like to have the score, it is available as a free download (along with all my works for solo mandolin) at this website, courtesy of our very own Jim Garber.

Three cheers for Elena!

Victor

[Caleb]

Wow, I never expected to come across the composer of the piece when I posted. Pretty cool.

[vkioulaphides]

Haha... yeah, I'm a so called living composer. Nice to meet you, Caleb.

Cheers,

Victor

[Christopher Stetson]

And thanks to you both. I can't wait to give this a try, but first I have to practice up some Munier for a gig. And, speaking of technique, this is what popped up next on my youtube list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BdiHNaS3m8 Wow.

[JeffD]

I worked up the last part, the gigue. I can make it bounce along rather delightfully, though not as fast as in the video.

I once played the gigue on electric mandolin for a barbeque in the park, with full heavy metal distortion. Crunchy fun.

[crisscross]

You don't seem to find much information about these two Russian Mandolin Ladies Elena Zabavskaya and Ekaterina Mochalova.
The latter also plays the 3 string domra. And not too bad...

Her name looks like this in kyrillic characters: Екатерина Мочалова
http://www.gnesin-academy.ru/node/15920
You can find the most important facts about her here:
https://www.themandolintuner.com/eka...lova-tmt-db55/

About Elena Zabavskaya, there is even less information on the internet.
Елена ЗАБАВСКАЯ
That was the only written information I could find:
http://www.balalaika-master.ru/festival/III/3_5_5.php
It seems, she also studied at the Gnesin-academy.