Thanks, Stuart! Lovely little piece, and a witty video presentation,
too. Would you ever consider including a passing photo of the
instrument, though? I always wish you would.
Best for the new year,
Chris.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:13 PM, WALSH STUART <[1]s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
Perhaps this should be on the vihuela list but...
An attractive little piece from the 1820s for Russian guitar.
It's an
aria from an opera and Alexander Batov has kindly suggested it
might be
"from a comic opera by Nicolas Isouard "Joconde ou Les coureurs
d'aventures" (1814), which was staged in St-Petersburg in January
1815."
Joconde here seems to mean 'rake' rather than Mona Lisa and a
costumed
'Joconde' appears briefly in the video. On the other hand, the
minor
key section sounds very 'Russian' and not so opera-comique.
Anyway
there's a lot of nice music for this instrument that is not too
difficult (as well as some very challenging music indeed).
I'm playing it on a gut-strung 19th century Russian guitar (tuned
D-G-B-D-G-B-D):
[1][2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8Fe953cqY
Stuart
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