Don't you just love that pompous academic phrase "immature phrasing choices" Well Logan just point a few of them out for us, perhaps it's the poignant vibrato ...or a slight accelerando or no it can't be a ritenuto. Hey Logan her playing ....her phrasing might not please you ..but get over it it's a great interpretation, one of many. Check out the other version by a very young John Williams on his "A spanish guitar" LP (I think his debut LP)...
Its so hard to believe a 15 year old can play with such musicality in the emphasis of their playing! She was a true genius hah, these recording really blew my socks off.
I believe this composition is graded as a grade 10 piece with the Royal Conservatory in Toronto and at the age of fifteen this not only an incredible performance but the best one in my book yet!
There are grades 1 through to grade 10 at the RCM, after grade 10 there is the performers ARCT, which is the highest level you can achieve at the RCM.
A god performance yes a great one no. YOu can tell she is young. There are a lot of immature phrasing choices. But impressive none the less. Also, It is Federico not Frederico, only 1 R in his first name.
Thank you for the correction. Great phrasing sustain and beautiful tone in the Paganini Romance. To me this is were the incomparable talent of Presti shows best.
I couldn't disagree more. I have looked at your postings Logan and you are, clearly, a very accomplished guitarist. Of course there are immature nuances, but.....she was 15 at the time?? To be able to play this at all, at 15, is in itself a great achievement. It IS a great performance.
@LoganGabriel You can't even play a practiced memorized piece without dropping a few notes and blowing the ending but you can point out 'immature phrasing' (something I didn't hear) from a woman that John Duarte said that he never heard a wrong note played by Ida Presti in concert or even in practice. Furthermore you seem to know more than her teacher, Andres Segovia who declared: 'I have nothing to teach her. She should not accept the advice of any other guitarist.' when she was 13 yrs old.
Don't you just love that pompous academic phrase "immature phrasing choices" Well Logan just point a few of them out for us, perhaps it's the poignant vibrato ...or a slight accelerando or no it can't be a ritenuto. Hey Logan her playing ....her phrasing might not please you ..but get over it it's a great interpretation, one of many. Check out the other version by a very young John Williams on his "A spanish guitar" LP (I think his debut LP)...
onemexican1 1 month ago
Where are the other movements... Do they even exist???
MrSnorlax22 1 year ago
way to blast through that one without stopping to smell any roses.
Guitarwizard 1 year ago
LA vera e unica signora della chitarra
miashred 1 year ago
Ida is the Best ...End of discussion... Where to find more of their recordings?
stnenadkv 1 year ago
I like it.
sabotos 2 years ago
"..a lot of immature phrasing.." ..please!! I've seen your videos and you SUCK!!
aldo6666 2 years ago 10
Its so hard to believe a 15 year old can play with such musicality in the emphasis of their playing! She was a true genius hah, these recording really blew my socks off.
Kelavmeister 3 years ago 8
Ida is the only guitarist so far I know of, that started to play the Classical Guitar as a teenager. This inspires me to keep practicing!
:)
DjosueD 3 years ago
oh no.... Segovia was playing for money as a child; Bream was recording for EMI and in films at 14; Williams also was recording at 17 or 18
Vstrat0 2 years ago
but perhaps, she is the finest of all !!!
Vstrat0 2 years ago
I believe this composition is graded as a grade 10 piece with the Royal Conservatory in Toronto and at the age of fifteen this not only an incredible performance but the best one in my book yet!
31041955 4 years ago
What is grade 10? It's difficult to keep flowing, but the mechanics are within reach of an undergraduate sophomore.
Presti plays it very well though, thanks for posting, rsgala.
UAclassico 4 years ago
There are grades 1 through to grade 10 at the RCM, after grade 10 there is the performers ARCT, which is the highest level you can achieve at the RCM.
31041955 4 years ago
A god performance yes a great one no. YOu can tell she is young. There are a lot of immature phrasing choices. But impressive none the less. Also, It is Federico not Frederico, only 1 R in his first name.
LoganGabriel 4 years ago
Thank you for the correction. Great phrasing sustain and beautiful tone in the Paganini Romance. To me this is were the incomparable talent of Presti shows best.
rsagala 4 years ago
I couldn't disagree more. I have looked at your postings Logan and you are, clearly, a very accomplished guitarist. Of course there are immature nuances, but.....she was 15 at the time?? To be able to play this at all, at 15, is in itself a great achievement. It IS a great performance.
Gangly1 3 years ago
@LoganGabriel You can't even play a practiced memorized piece without dropping a few notes and blowing the ending but you can point out 'immature phrasing' (something I didn't hear) from a woman that John Duarte said that he never heard a wrong note played by Ida Presti in concert or even in practice. Furthermore you seem to know more than her teacher, Andres Segovia who declared: 'I have nothing to teach her. She should not accept the advice of any other guitarist.' when she was 13 yrs old.
weynato 1 year ago 4
Wonderful! At fifteen, this genius child performed at a level that many mture performers can never dream to achieve...
Thank you very much for sharing.
Curatica 4 years ago