More Guitar :: 15:05
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.
