Headspace

After the youngsters I ended up spending a moment in youtube and found this. John Williams plauying Albeniz’s Asturias. Which is probably the best classical guitarist playing the king song of the instrument/style. I’ve seen this performance as a kid from telly and it impressed me then, this is what classic guitar is about. Guitar isn’t necessarily only a solo instrument, here’s a duo with a serious song and here’s a quartet with something quite different.

The other (yup, in my world there are two) seminal song of the classical guitar is of course Los Requerdos de la Alhambra, composed by Francesco Tarrega. Best rendition I could find was this one.

Then from the flamenco side of things… I linked Grisha’s rendition in the previous post, here’s the original master and yet another version of the song. Flamenco by the youtube seems to fit old geezers extremely well as one can deduce from these pieces from Carlos Montoya. 1, 2, 3

Then I found something that might be best described as modern guitar. In the opening sequence the fellow here plays a ten stringer, somewhat unusual variant of the instrument.

Even as I still seem to lack pretty much completely the time required to write up even a fraction of things going on in my life, there is something that’s close to heart and nice to put here. Fiendishly good guitar playing, to be precise. Have a look:

This guy is truly astonishing. The piece he’s playing is truly one of the royal ones when it comes to difficulty, his fingering on the left is perfect and the picking technique he has on the right is impressive as well.

Here’s another one from him.

Some more of this stuff: one two and three from another guy.

Great news, now if only our Kingdom’s own rules would get to be published, not that the lack of them would have kept me and maestro from engaging to this kind of fun on our own, but it is a great thing and it would deserve to grow to fully recognised part of the society.