Leo Brouwer Etudes X,XII and VIII by played by R. Lohengrin

[OmegaLesPaul]

I enjoyed it, though I felt you played VIII much too fast. To each his own interpretation though I suppose. Incredible playing!

[77Goldar]

What a pleasant interpretation of these etudes. I have been working on the estudios sencillos a lot lately and I grow closer to them everyday, I also listened to your #6, the arpeggio study, and I have to say it was great as well. Id love to hear you play Una dia de noviembre, or could possibly record more brouwer etudes? I love # 7 & 9 and would love to see your interpretation.

[MrDime666]

wow i would never be able to play the study X

[guitarrarl]

@MrDime666

Study it very slowly. slower than you think it is slow , follow the fingerings and the correct rhythm and you will be able to play it well.

[Nesavant]

Ray, beautiful playing first of all.

I'm wondering if you could clear something up for me. The third staccato chord in the first measure of X has a G in the bass on my transcript, but half of the videos I've seen of it (including yours) has an open E.

I've been working on the piece a bit, and I think the open E sounds better, but I am confused about the variance.

[guitarrarl]

Hi friend:

Yes, there are many errors in that publication and it is normal as it is for a regular text book to have an error here and there. The E on the bass is consistent to the harmony of that chord. I do not have the music with me at the moment but I am sure that the 1st chord is Em7 and the 2nd Gm 7. I will check. Also you can verify it by looking at the repeat of the measure later on on the piece. Yes you are right the error note does not sound very good :)

RL

[apollonmusagete]

Great performances. Raymond. Brouwer will be honored!

[guitarrarl]

Thank you!!!

RL

[BlueJazzyClassic]

Hello Amigo

I got the full 20 notes and am start practicing VIII.

Always thanksful for your high quality posting.

BlueJazzyClassic

[CoverMarguerite]

Very good interpretation of these Brouwer's studies. I know there are 24 studies from him. Shall you play the 24?

[guitarrarl]

I have played them all but the new etudes and these I will study soon :)

Thanks, RL

[CoverMarguerite]

Thanks for your answer. I hope to hear them soon.

[denverexec2000]

outstanding performances!

[BlueJazzyClassic]

Appreciative for your posting

I like the last VIII with its strange feeling of arpeggios

Different from his first XII etudes that have much ambience of Cuba these has the closer sonority of Debussy.

It doesn't much sounds distorted to me. But

in youtube I exprienced alot of sound distorition regardless of big size of WAV file. compared with other web. So I am trying to use less Reverb effect in Youtube.

My best BlueJazzyClassic

[guitarrarl]

I am sorry your guitar broke :(.

The normalize function brings automatically all the volume up to the highest and the coner. program may have used this function.

Raymond

Thanks for the comments!

[BlueJazzyClassic]

Appreciative for your posting firend.

I sense somewhat modern ambience of Debussy in this etudes like those of Debussy's etudes or preludes for piano in my short knowledge. Those first XII have more ambience of Cuba.

I like especially VIII above that contain some strange arpeggios.

BTW I can't play guitar as it is broken

My best BlueJazzyClassic

[ericruff]

Very nice! This guy is good.

[guitarrarl]

Hi all:

I noticed that at least two times the first bass low E distorts in some computers when playing this video. I may post this again because the audio is clean in the original DV file. I am afraid that the DV to Mpeg conversion may have altered or 'normalize" the audio in the mpeg file. Please let me know if the audio distorts in your speakers.

Thanks!

RL