Good morning (or evening depending on where you are in the world reading this)!
A slightly different angle for today’s post, with some video goodies for you, courtesy of the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria. The CGSV has just recently started its own YouTube channel with some videos posted up of the society’s guitar orchestra in concert. And I thought I’d share with you!
These clips are the orchestra in action late last year playing Paul Svoboda’s Celtic Clash, Telemann’s Concert in D Major and Haydn’s Divertimento in C Major. Enjoy and see if you can spot yours truly!c
Celtic clash – Paul Svoboda
This is a really nice light-hearted piece to play, with some high energy sections and lovely gliding melody in the middle section.
I’ve done a bit of work recently with Pierre Herrero of http://www.guitarsonline.com.au and I thought I’d take the opportunity to show you some of the cool stuff he’s been up to. Pierre has worked like an absolute trooper in the last few years to work with and source some very fine quality instruments, in Australia and in Europe, and make them available to the Australian market.
He’s recently returned from a testing, sourcing and buying trip over in Europe. During this time he toured around various luthier’s workshops and studios, talking to them about their methods, seeing how they practice the art of guitar-making, testing out new guitars (both tried and tested methods of building along with newer experimental models) – modern and period-type instruments, and selecting stock to bring over here. Yussss! Lots of lovely Spanish handiwork for those of us on the other side of the world to get our paws on!
And Pierre had the great idea of recording some of these sessions too. There are a couple of clips that are particularly interesting, and those constitute quite an in-depth discussion with a Spanish concert guitarist/period instrument musician and luthier by the name of Jose Miguel Moreno.
Jose Miguel has been working with Alhambra guitars to create a new breed of guitars – powerful and bold, yet relatively small and comfortable to play Romantic and early music-influenced guitars.
In this interview, Pierre and Jose Miguel discuss this approach. Take a look!
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* Just so you know, this post is not sponsored by guitarsonline.com. I just thought the clips of Jose Miguel talking about his new range of guitars was pretty cool and thought I’d share.
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