Suzanne,
Give a listen to Hopkinson Smith's recording of
Gureau - FRANCISCO GUERAU: Poema Harmonico auvidis/astrée E 8722
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HOPKINSON SMITH: baroque guitar
At 11:20 AM 10/31/2010, Suzanne Angevine wrote:
Last night I heard a very nice concert of mostly
Baroque guitar. This is not an instrument I
have any experience on, so I have a question.
While the music was played with great style and
expressiveness, I noticed some things that in a
lute player I would not think that good. Things
like squeeks, and twangs, and notes that in the
contrapuntal texture were inappropriately loud
or soft. Now I know on lute that it takes a
fine degree of excellence, such as Paul O'Dette,
to play without these things, and to bring out
the essence of the music clearly. I also know
from my own limited amateur abilities that it is
much easier to hear what you *want* to hear, how
you think the music should go, than it is to
hear how you're actually playing. So my
question is this: Is it technically harder for
some reason to play contrapuntal style pieces on
Baroque guitar than Ren lute? It seems the real
strength of the Baroque guitar in modern usage
is loud strumming as part of a continuo group,
and at this it is clearly excellent. But I've
not heard so many people play serious solo pieces on the instrument.
Suzanne
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