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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Apr 15, 2019 1:05:49 GMT -5
This one is a bit long, because it's a big piece in 3 movements (or three "ballads," about 14 min of music, overall), but it's just a great piece of the literature for classical guitar. Written in 1981, and dedicated to Sharon Isbin, the black decameron (El Decameron Negro) has become a classic. I apologize in advance for the long play; I just don't have the computer chops to cut all this stuff up. On the other hand, it's sort of fun to put up an unedited live video of a piece like this--so here it is, as it happened. The first ballad, or movement, is called "The Harp of the Warrior" and has a harp motive and some warrior-like leaping about imagery; the second movement is called "Flight of the Lovers through the valley of echoes" and you can hear the initial leading and ride of stolen horses out of the village, followed fairly soon by the sound of horses' hooves echoing off of the canyon walls from the valley (very pretty and idiomatic guitar writing); the third movement is called "The ballad of the Maiden in love" and is a lovely rondo with an opening theme in D that serves as a leitmotif for the princess--who has fallen in love withe the warrior from movement one; enough so that she runs off with him on horseback (the imagery in ballad two). So, a programmatic work: guy meets girl, guy gets girl, with some stuff in between. Thanks for listening, if you make it through all three movements.
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Post by theevan on Apr 15, 2019 6:55:08 GMT -5
Love me some Brouwer. That's quite a suite to tackle. And memorize.
I think Leo, along with Nikita Koshkin are among the greatest living composers for guitar. Well, and Assad.
Time for you to learn a few of those great Prelude and Fugues Koshkin has written in various keys.
I need you to learn them because I can't. Heh.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 15, 2019 7:34:22 GMT -5
Wonderful stuff! Thanks for sharing it.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 15, 2019 8:15:36 GMT -5
I don't see the Baggs M1a in that guitar? I particularly love the passage after the tuning around 9:30. Lovely. (And it's repeats.  ) |
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 15, 2019 8:17:59 GMT -5
Very very nice! That is a loud guitar. Is it a double top? I heard Kenny Hill playing one of his in a large hall and it had a similar tone.
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Post by theevan on Apr 15, 2019 8:22:49 GMT -5
Very very nice! That is a loud guitar. Is it a double top? I heard Kenny Hill playing one of his in a large hall and it had a similar tone. Double top on a la Cote Copy? Heaven forfend! |
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Apr 15, 2019 10:28:16 GMT -5
Time for you to learn a few of those great Prelude and Fugues Koshkin has written in various keys. I’m open to specific suggestions.  I don't see the Baggs M1a in that guitar? I particularly love the passage after the tuning around 9:30. Lovely. (And it's repeats. ) The baggs M1 is afraid of that guitar’s output. So is Chuck Norris. That theme in Ballad 3 is one of my favorite guitar licks ever. Very very nice! That is a loud guitar. Is it a double top? I heard Kenny Hill playing one of his in a large hall and it had a similar tone. That’s just a side effect of the Viennese design. The neck is free-floating and doesn’t touch the soundboard, so the whole top is active. Plus the ladder bracing makes them punchy. Funny thing, that isn’t even the louder guitar of the two I own. The Reisinger copy I have is the same design, but from the evolutionary end of that road in 1912. It’s the next body size lager, and it’s CRAZY loud. On Wednesday, I played an "adjudicator’s concert" with two other performers at a middle/high school guitar festival over the lunch hour. The player before me played a modern doubletop (Blackwell) using nails, and I was every bit as loud. I’ve also shared the stage with a great player using a Connor (another modern uber guitar) at the UW in Seattle, and my buddy who teaches there responded to my observation that the Viennese design held its own in the hall with "No shit it did! Pretty amazing..." Those old guys; JG and JA Stauffer, along with Giuliani, Mertz, Legnani, Regondi, and Franz Schubert, et al... seems like they actually had some valid ideas back in the time of Beethoven. CF Martin the first sure thought so... |
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Post by theevan on Apr 15, 2019 11:35:55 GMT -5
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Post by theevan on Apr 15, 2019 11:39:13 GMT -5
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Post by theevan on Apr 15, 2019 17:16:49 GMT -5
I was going to suggest Songe Capricorn, which no doubt you are familiar with. Then I found this.  I think it's a terribly cool take on Roland's piece. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 15, 2019 17:21:20 GMT -5
I took some time to hear this (until I ran out of time) when I got home. Wonderful stuff to listen too, I will get to the rest later.
That IS a loud guitar. Which is an asset coming from a nylon. (This of course, coming from a person who strive to play below the fifth fret while playing in G).
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Apr 15, 2019 21:46:09 GMT -5
I was going to suggest Songe Capricorn, which no doubt you are familiar with. Then I found this. I think it's a terribly cool take on Roland's piece. ^^^That is pretty far out. Songe Capricorne has actually been on my list... I think I’ll bump it to this summer and see if I can do it justice. |
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Post by RickW on Apr 16, 2019 10:49:55 GMT -5
Just got to listen to this on the home stereo. Wonderful stuff, Michael. I confess I have never been a big Brouwer fan; a lot of dissonance there. But that is a great piece of music. I think I appreciate that kind of music more played live, which makes no sense. But I'm old and entitled to my oddities. 🤣
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Apr 16, 2019 14:49:53 GMT -5
Just got to listen to this on the home stereo. Wonderful stuff, Michael. I confess I have never been a big Brouwer fan; a lot of dissonance there. But that is a great piece of music. I think I appreciate that kind of music more played live, which makes no sense. But I'm old and entitled to my oddities. 🤣 Thanks for the kind words. And, I find that I appreciate most music more played live. Except gangster rap. i appreciate that more on a stereo. At low volume. In someone else’s car, while I’m in mine.  |
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 16, 2019 15:35:48 GMT -5
Mesmerizing!
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