@ coolrocknroll -- I made a playlist comprising your six uploads of the John Williams LP of the Sor etudes. Apparently I had accessed this page through the playlist when I replied to saturno553 seven hours ago. I regret that the automated Youtube citation for that reply cites my playlist, rather than your upload, as the original source. You deserve all the credit. I thank you sincerely for providing these uploads.
@ saturno553 -- The sectarian dispute as to whether the classical guitar should be played with or without using the right-hand fingernails is so mired in obfuscation that neither the history of that dispute, nor the issues involved, can be fairly assessed in few words. Aguado played with nails, Sor didn't. Tarrega famously clipped his nails as he had grown to regard them as an encumbrance. Segovia used nails, as do today's concert artists. But the issue remains. And so it will remain.
Esto es una ofensa para el gran Sors ,que era enemigo de las estridencias que dan el toque con uñas.El tocaba solo con yema.Su música es tan espiritual que merece otro tipo de interpretación.
@anadini, Yes, this is really John Williams. But keep in mind that this recording must be 45 years old. I owned this record too. I bought it shortly after I started playing guitar. John Williams was still a teenager, I think, when this was done. If it wasn't his first record, it one of the first. Not only has his technique and musicality matured since then, recording has gotten much better. Since coolrocknroll still has the record, maybe he can look at the copyright and verify it's age.
One early Williams recording (pre-Columbia Records) that I'm hoping to find reissued on CD someday is the Torroba and Ponce recital, which features the Torroba Sonatina, and Ponce preludes among some of the works from that LP.
I use to have an LP of these studies and foolishly gave it away thinking they would be available on CD eventually. As you indicated though, they are not. Thank you for posting them! Oh, for the post that doubts it being Williams, it is.
Are you absolutely sure this is John Williams? - I find it hard to believe - the playing is quite rough and abrupt in parts, as well as some notes having a thin tone - not like the perfection and overall cohesion of his usual recordings at all?
I have two guitars, and enjoy playing them - for self enjoyment over anything else. I stumbled across Fernando's studies years ago and immediately fell in love with a couple of them... but have never found (nor did I ever look very hard) until now all of them recorded, together, and played eloquently. THANK YOU for sharing this beautiful music!!! ~
from Jose Sepulveda, the Hermeterec.......I humbly submit that John Williams is the greatest of all of Segovia's students, but that Segovia did make him great. John Williams was born to greatness on the instrument, invested with that remarkable talent from birth and inclined to develop it, to nurture and refine it. Segovia did not make John Williams the genius he is, God did.
You bring back my old memories..
komodo93433 2 months ago
excellent, thanks for sharing!
komodo93433 2 months ago
@ coolrocknroll -- I made a playlist comprising your six uploads of the John Williams LP of the Sor etudes. Apparently I had accessed this page through the playlist when I replied to saturno553 seven hours ago. I regret that the automated Youtube citation for that reply cites my playlist, rather than your upload, as the original source. You deserve all the credit. I thank you sincerely for providing these uploads.
roundtheblock1 2 months ago
@ saturno553 -- The sectarian dispute as to whether the classical guitar should be played with or without using the right-hand fingernails is so mired in obfuscation that neither the history of that dispute, nor the issues involved, can be fairly assessed in few words. Aguado played with nails, Sor didn't. Tarrega famously clipped his nails as he had grown to regard them as an encumbrance. Segovia used nails, as do today's concert artists. But the issue remains. And so it will remain.
roundtheblock1 2 months ago in playlist Sor 20 Studies, Williams
2.27 amateur performance
ftryew 2 months ago
@WBCurnutte: This might be from his fifth record released in '63 entitled "Twenty Studies for Guitar". He would have been 22 at the time.
rcuomo 3 months ago
Esto es una ofensa para el gran Sors ,que era enemigo de las estridencias que dan el toque con uñas.El tocaba solo con yema.Su música es tan espiritual que merece otro tipo de interpretación.
saturno553 3 months ago
@anadini, Yes, this is really John Williams. But keep in mind that this recording must be 45 years old. I owned this record too. I bought it shortly after I started playing guitar. John Williams was still a teenager, I think, when this was done. If it wasn't his first record, it one of the first. Not only has his technique and musicality matured since then, recording has gotten much better. Since coolrocknroll still has the record, maybe he can look at the copyright and verify it's age.
WBCurnutte 4 months ago
One early Williams recording (pre-Columbia Records) that I'm hoping to find reissued on CD someday is the Torroba and Ponce recital, which features the Torroba Sonatina, and Ponce preludes among some of the works from that LP.
brtherjohn 4 months ago
I use to have an LP of these studies and foolishly gave it away thinking they would be available on CD eventually. As you indicated though, they are not. Thank you for posting them! Oh, for the post that doubts it being Williams, it is.
phoenixses 6 months ago
Are you absolutely sure this is John Williams? - I find it hard to believe - the playing is quite rough and abrupt in parts, as well as some notes having a thin tone - not like the perfection and overall cohesion of his usual recordings at all?
anadini 7 months ago in playlist γαλαζιο
I have two guitars, and enjoy playing them - for self enjoyment over anything else. I stumbled across Fernando's studies years ago and immediately fell in love with a couple of them... but have never found (nor did I ever look very hard) until now all of them recorded, together, and played eloquently. THANK YOU for sharing this beautiful music!!! ~
MrTgilbert66 10 months ago
from Jose Sepulveda, the Hermeterec.......I humbly submit that John Williams is the greatest of all of Segovia's students, but that Segovia did make him great. John Williams was born to greatness on the instrument, invested with that remarkable talent from birth and inclined to develop it, to nurture and refine it. Segovia did not make John Williams the genius he is, God did.
Hermeterec 10 months ago
thanks that is my favourite recording
zamba00mamba 1 year ago