
Eden Stell Guitar Duo performing at the 6th Changsha International Guitar Festival, July 2017 performing Mauro Giuliani’s Grandi Variazioni Concertanti Op.130

Title track from Eden Stell’s recording 'IDA - homage to Ida Presti' celebrating Presti's centenary year and her legacy to the guitar and guitar duo music. The recording is out on Deux-Elles Classical Recordings.

Alessandro Marcello (1673-1747) published his Concerto for oboe and strings in D minor in 1715. Johann Sebastian Bach arranged a number of concertos by Venetian composers for solo keyboard including this now famous work. Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya made a beautiful arrangement of this work for their guitar duo to perform with orchestra and two guitars. As a tribute to Ida Presti, Chris has arranged the same work from Johann Sebastian Bach's own keyboard arrangement of the concerto. Chris elaborates; "... this piece started life as an oboe concerto by Alessandro Marcello (1673-1747), and Bach arranged it for solo keyboard. Presti and Lagoya actually arranged this piece directly from Marcello’s version, for two guitars with orchestra. I wanted to take another look and play the whole work on the two guitars. I made my arrangement from the Bach keyboard version and used the key of B minor. In this recording I use the 7th string tuned to a low B, so an octave below the second fret."

Mark Eden and Chris Stell perform Australian composer Philip Houghton's 'Wave Radiance' for guitar duo - Wigmore Hall 2009.

Eden Stell Guitar Duo perform 'Cançó i Dansa' No.1 by Catalan composer Federico Mompou (arr. Mark Eden) from their CD 'Cançons i Danses' (BGS Records).

'Fuga Elegiaca' by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) was composed in 1967 after Castelnuovo-Tedesco learned of the untimely death of French guitar legend Ida Presti. As part of Ida Presti's centenary year celebrations Eden Stell recorded this stunning Prelude & Fugue as part of their recording 'IDA - Homage to Ida Presti'.

The Eden Stell Guitar Duo perform live on ITV UK national television.

Mark Eden & Chris Stell perform arrangements of Armenian folk music by Chris Stell in Yerevan Chamber Hall 2013.

The Eden Stell Guitar Duo (Mark Eden & Christopher Stell) perform live at the Alla Grande Guitar Festival, Ottawa, Pieces de Clavecin by Jean Philippe Rameau including arrangements by Sergio Assad and Sergio Abreu of 'Le Rappel des Oiseaux', 'Les Tendres Plaintes. Rondeau', and 'Les Cyclopes'.