Sor Mozart Variations Gregoriadou High-tuned guitar

Smaro Gregoriadou interprets Variations on a theme of Mozart by Fernando Sor (1778-1839) on a high-tuned guitar with scalloped fingerboard and brilliant tone-colour, representing Kertsopoulos Aesthetics*. Live concert in Athens (Nakas Concert Hall, 22/3/96).
*KERTSOPOULOS AESTHETICS: Guitars, strings, acoustic applications of evolved specifications, a 30-year research on history and æsthetics of guitar, accomplished by Greek guitarist-maker Yorgos Kertsopoulos and involving numerous suggestions on interpretation of old and new guitar repertoire, as well as transcriptions from other instruments to guitar. Since Æsthetics' first presentation in Athens, 1994, by their inventor, numerous astonishing innovations have enriched inventive guitarist's sound, recreating 500-years of beautiful guitar tradition: high-pitched, transitive and re-entrant tunings up an octave higher than the ordinary, double and triple-course stringing, tone-colour's diversity, access to unexplored tonalities, pedal mechanisms!
HISTORIC EVIDENCE: In 1948 Andres Segovia introduced the nylon string aesthetic of A.Augustine. The classical and flamenco guitar enjoys this aesthetic for more than sixty years and guitarists of such a worldwide prestige such as Julian Bream, John Williams, Alirio Diaz, Abel Carlevaro, Dimitri Fampas, Gerasimos Miliaresis, the Romero family, C.Parkening, A.Lagoya, I.Presti, L.Almeida, Evangelos & Liza, C.Kotsiolis, Roberto Aussel, R.Dyens, Paul Galbraith, Paco de Lucia, P.Pena, C.Montoya, Sabicas, Serranito (just to mention a few of these astonishing performers), play with great success the Segovia-Augustine aesthetic which has total acceptance today. Now, A.Barrios and H.Villa-Lobos played with metal strings while D.Prat, A.Lauro, F.Tarrega, R.Montoya played with gut strings. At the time of M.Giuliani, M.Carcassi, L.Legnani, F.Carulli, F.Sor, D.Aguado the guitar was strung with metal, gut and silk strings and had either double courses or single strings. Also further back in history G.Sanz, Bermudo, Brescianello played the guitar in higher pitched tunings and the triple strung guitarra battente was popular mainly in Italy. Y.Kertsopoulos introduced in 1994 the Kertsopoulos Aesthetics which as a multiplex open architecture scheme provide the possibility of reviving and realizing the many aspects of guitar's aesthetics, as they have been recorded in history. Among many guitarists that play the aesthetics today, Smaro Gregoriadou has made many succesful first world presentations of different aspects of aesthetic styles in guitar interpretation.

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• Variations
• on
• theme
• of
• Mozart
• Sor
• Gregoriadou
• High-tuned
• Guitar

[LutenistDeMari]

Proof that you have to beware of dogmatically accepting the findings of so-called 'research'. There is nothing inherently 'correct' about something just because someone wrote a paper. Work in sonic/aural realities... avoid guitars that sound like a cage full of canaries and a hungry cat. I don't understand the idea behind the sound.... guitars in Sor's time were clearly strung at Lower tension than our standard, not higher. Plus Sor played without nails = mellow, not piercing.

[sgregoriadou]

Opinion fanatically expressed, deprived from historical reality, knowledge blocked by self confusion! Case typical 1)You wrongly assume that my gtr has high tension, you confuse frequency with tension.A string can be highly tuned and still low tensed, this is a great achievement of this world acclaimed research 2)Even if he wished Sor couldn't have a mellow sound due to his string material: wound gut. His no-nails technique refers to the old lute idiom, not our modern nylon-orientated gtr sound.

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic! One of a kind performance! I can hear the bass sound clearly at the beginning. Keep it up, Smaro!

[sgregoriadou]

Many thanks, Gilbert.

All best

Smaro

[ignaciovilaro]

Nice historical investigation.

I do not like the result though.

It sounds pretty bad.

[nikosz66]

BRAVO !

[tomnuor]

It seem to be technically too difficult for you.

[Dogaradodia]

Did I hear it correctly? You added the bass notes at the beginning. They're great! I don't hear them on Segovia's video. This makes it your own variation! I want a repeat performance!

[sgregoriadou]

Thanks for your nice comments

All best

Smaro

[deartovi]

sympathetic pitches are all messed on that guitar for some reason.

[HyperWaffe]

De ügyesss :)