Posts tagged guitar

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Bach
Suite in E major, BWV 1006a
III. Gavotte en rondeau

John Williams

119 plays

Frank Martin
Quatre pièces brèves
IV. Comme un gigue

Julian Bream 

Malcolm Arnold
Fantasy, Op. 107

Sean Shibe 

Satie
Berceuse

Peter Fletcher, guitar 

Flickr / sydneyhirsch

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco
”El sueño de la razón produce monstruos”
(“The sleep of reason produces monsters”),
from 24 Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195 

Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar

(Goya | El sueño de la razón produce monstruos, 1798)

…air guitar? :)

…air guitar? :)

Flickr / tangyauhoong

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Jan Novák (1921-84)
Rosarivm, for two guitars
V. Divertimento 5

Duo Lumen

Learned about this composer and this work via 23am…amazing music beautifully recorded, with the complete suite available for free download here. 

(photo by Greg Pierce)

Walton
Five Bagatelles
V. Con slancio

Julian Bream, guitar 

Dionisio Aguado (1784 - 1849)
Rondo, Op. 2

Julian Bream, guitar 

Aguado, one of the great guitarists of the early XIX Century, spent time in Paris where he befriended and roomed with Fernando Sor. Among his ill-fated inventions was the tripodion, a device meant to hold the guitar for the player and thus eliminate dampening. His surname, Spanish for “soaked,” is said to have originated from an ancient incident in which a knight returned from battle covered in mud. 

Lightnin’ Hopkins
“Lonesome Road” 
1960 

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Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Arabia
from Garcia/Grisman (1991)

(Lady Anne Blunt | Pilgrim Camp at Birkat Jemameh, 1879)

Doc Watson
“Deep River Blues” (1991) 

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americanroutes:

Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson passed away on Tuesday May 29, 2012 at a hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. He was 89 years old. This simply breaks my Southern heart. There are few people in this world that were both as talented and genuinely humble as Doc.

I remember working as a lighting tech at a show he was performing at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC in the summer of 2008. At one point, Doc was in a picking circle backstage with Riley Vargus and a number of other friends and acquaintances. Every single person on that job site - the grips, the lighting techs, the caterers, everyone - stopped working and just stood in silent awe, struck by the graceful power of his words and chords. They broke the mold when they made this man.

Read about Doc’s music and life here.

One of my favorite memories is of a June afternoon maybe ten years ago, when I stood soaking in the pouring rain and listening to this man enchant his audience for an hour. I didn’t even realize he was playing at that festival; I just happened to stumble upon him there. Really magical—he was one of a kind. 

americanroutes

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Enrique Granados
”La maja de Goya” (“Goya’s woman”)

Julian Bream, guitar

Spanish composer Granados’ preoccupation with the life and work and Francisco Goya was fueled in part by the composer’s own considerable abilities as a painter. 

Granados died before reaching his 50th birthday; in 1916 he and his wife were aboard a passenger ferry which was sunk by a German U-Boot in the English Channel. He tried unsuccessfully to save his wife when he saw her floundering in the water, and the pair were both drowned.   

(Goya | La Señora Sabasa García)