Ida Presti Right Hand Technique II

Ida Presti plays "Guajira" by Emilio Pujol (1882-1980).
If you concentrate on the music you will hear superlative guitar playing. Nothing is missing here. A reference in: tone quality, intensity, phrasing, rythmic vitality and dynamism,sustain, great vibrato sound, colours and character. Plus a unique quality in the pizzicato where the sound although damped is still resonant with harmonics.
Recorded in France in the 1950's.

Want to know more about Ida Presti? Please read this:
Written by Maestro Angelo Gilardino on the classical guitar newsgroup on Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:18 PM

She was the greatest firstly and simply in terms of her skills with the
instrument: she could do with fingers things that no other guitarist could
do. Her hands were phisically "different" (by nature and for having been
manipulated by her father since when she was a baby). She produced the
loudest, roundest, fullest, tone ever heard: only Lagoya - since when they
met and formed the duo - could match her, and only in certain situations.
The tones she produced in certain recordings of the duo ("Goyescas" by
Granados, just to give an instance, but one could add many other examples)
is the best tone I ever heard from a guitarist - and I listened to all of
them who gave concerts after my birth - and she could produce a variety of
tones, with a correspondent amplitude of dynamic range, that nobody else has
matched so far. She could play a sort of "legato" unique to her playing,
and to nobody else's playing. Her vibrato - still documented in the duo
recordings, take for example the "Adagio" by Albinoni-Giazotto - is still
above anybody else's possibilities. She was - simply - unmistakable. I never
heard a wrong note from her. Jack Duarte, who was a strict friend of hers,
can witness that in the hundred times he listened to her practicing, he
never heard one single mistake from her. Her virtuosity - a stunning one -
has been matched by several players nowadays, but at which price, in terms
of sound, expression, etc.? Consider that, after her severe training during
her childhood, she did not practice very much, her life being spent mainly
in travels and concerts..,But all of this prodigy was serving the most
important purpose: she was a marvelous musician, with a direct, immediate,
unabriged vision of the music. Her drawing rhythms, melodies, voices in
counterpoint, chords, was simply perfect. She played so well, that you
couldn't realize she played well, because you received the music in such an
accomplished way that you were allowed to forget she was playing an
instrument, and that she was skilled. Her skills disappeared with her doing
the music. Her fellows, in the heavens of 20th century interpreters, are to
be sought outside guitarists: I would say Dinu Lipatti, and only a few other
ones.

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[rsagala]

TO ALL VIEWERS: Please click on the more in bracket near the Ida Presti plays "Guajira" by Emilio...(more)

to read a testimony from maestro Angelo Girardino about Ida Presti.

[gitaroana]

She is really too little known, I fear, and I hope that through beautiful initiatives like this presentation on youtube more people will be enriched by the legacy this noble, generous, talented, versatile Artist has left us.

[rsagala]

There is a biography of her, the first one ever that has just been published just in time for the 40th anniversary of her death. Written by her daughter Elisabeth jointly with her best friend Anna Marilla and translated in english by Alice Artzt a pupil of her. The book is both in english and french with lavish photographies.

[Cyrloud]

Une version de reference de cette guajira de PUJOL, attaque franchement à droite pour la grande ida, avec dfférents types de pizzicato avec toujours cette alliance entre une grande virtuosité et une grande sensibilité--encore une étoile qui est partie trop tôt.

[rsagala]

Tout à fait d'accord, plus une richesse de timbres inégalable même dans les pizzicato qui bien qu'amortis sont résonnants riches en harmonique et bien timbrés.

Des étoiles posthumes? :)

[Cyrloud]

ben oui

de quoi elle est morte ? (suis toubib aussi)

[rsagala]

Atteinte d'un cancer des poumons elle meurt lors d'une tournée aux Etats-Unis en 1967, d'une hémorragie causée par une complication de sa maladie.

(source Wikipedia)

elle fumait cigarettes sur cigarettes...

[duxutube]

This might draw a lot of objections, but I think she's comparable to Segovia in terms of style and music expression, and probably better in techniques. She's better many of the modern virtuosos. But somehow she's not very well-known. Maybe because she died rather young, or didn't have enough recordings?

[MguitarL]

How fantastic to hear Ida Presti here on youtube -

She was my first 'guitar idol' and remains so...she

was truly a musical genius, and there has never been

any guitarist like her since, in my opinion. Thanks a

million for posting this video!

[nareksaribekyan]

When Ida was a mere thirteen years of age, Andres Segovia declared, "I have nothing to teach her ... she should not accept the advice of any other guitarist."

[harmonieslumineuses]

Où peut-on trouver un enregistrement d'Ida Presti en solo? J'en trouve un sur amazon mais il est épuisé.... D'avance merci pour les réponses.

[harmonieslumineuses]

J'aime beaucoup!

[caraphyllis]

I'm not big on hyperbole, but Presti was perhaps the most eloquent, brilliant guitarist who ever lived. For sure, she was one of the greatest. This recording brings tears to my eyes.

[goroundit123]

I am sure what you say is more credible...on reflection even for her...3 days for the Aranjuez...sounds hard to credit...

[simonshusse]

Hmm, I dont think thats true. As far as I know it was my teachers teacher, Regino Sainz de la Maza, that premiered that concierto. Ida Presti was about 15 (16?) years old at the time and although a child prodigy learing it in 3 days sounds...scary

:-)

[goroundit123]

thank you for your observations..is this true...I know Segovia turned down the chance to premiere the Aranjuez...he got frightened...Ida apparently...learnt it in 3 days...and premiered it...?

[simonshusse]

Segovia did great things for the guitar but as far as virtuose playing goes Ida Presti is unmatched. The only one I can think of with a similiar abillity is Zoran Dukic but doesn't like his stuff to be spread on youtube so catch him live ftw.

[goroundit123]

was she above Segovia?