John Williams plays Sor Studies 1 to 5

Now unavailable, here are the 20 studies by Fernando Sor, played by the monster of molten metal, the Australian God of the Guitar, the ultimate shredding machine, John Williams.

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[stilklik]

Nostalgia to my guitar lessons, here one can hear how beautiful this music is when it's played how it ought to be played.

[komodo93433]

You bring back my old memories..

[komodo93433]

excellent, thanks for sharing!

[roundtheblock1]

@ 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]

@ 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.

[ftryew]

2.27 amateur performance 

[rcuomo]

@WBCurnutte:  This might be from his fifth record released in '63 entitled "Twenty Studies for Guitar". He would have been 22 at the time.

[saturno553]

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.

[WBCurnutte]

@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.

[brtherjohn]

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.