Asturias Albeniz Flamenco arr. Kertsopoulos guitar

Flamenco arrangement of Asturias-Leyenda by Isaac Albeniz written and performed live in concert by Yorgos Kertsopoulos at the Muzart Festival, Helexpo Palace, Athens 20 April 2008.High tuned guitar strings constructed by Yorgos give the guitar a minor third higher pitched tuning making it possible to preserve the original G minor key while not changing the usual E minor fingering. In 1948 A.Segovia introduced the nylon string aesthetic of A.Augustine. The classical and flamenco guitar enjoys this aesthetic for more than sixty years and J.Bream, J.Williams, D.Fampas, the Romero family, C.Parkening, Alirio Diaz, R.Dyens, L.Almeida, Paco de Lucia, P.Pena, C.Montoya, Sabicas, Serranito are only a few of the guitarists that play with great success this aesthetic which has worldwide acceptance today. A.Barrios and H.V.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 faces of the guitar's aesthetics, as they have been recorded in history. Among many guitarists that play the aesthetics Smaro Gregoriadou has made many succesful first world presentations of different aspects of aesthetic styles in guitar interpretation.

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[vicentejum]

con todos mis respetos, buena intencion, pero el resultado no me llena.Sigue investigando.

[gkertsopoulos]

Did you ever ask yourself why the work Asturias is also named Leyenda (Legend) and not a fairy tale?

In a legend there are heroes and sacrifices, mourning of the dead by the living, struggle for the ultimate and crushes of opposition. The chords in Asturias are crushes of the ultimateand the rasgueos can bring this forward. If of course somebody does not take any of this history into his investigations he can be happy with a "fairy tale" interpretation of the work.Stay well, cheers, Yorgos

[vicentejum]

cual es el arreglo exactamente, meter unos rasgueos cuando al tio le da la gana??..En mi opinion, destroza la maravillosa obra del maestro albeniz

[gkertsopoulos]

Albeniz wrote this work in the compass and the Phrygian (ancient Dorian) mode of Media Granadina meaning that he based it on the traits of the popular flamenco music with the exception that a piano cannot produce a rasgueado where a guitar can. There is a lot of history in this work my friend which is greater than the people that can describe it. Stay well, cheers, Yorgos

[asherasator]

I like your version! I detune to D standard then play it in G with the tremelo on the high D, I prefer to play music in the key that the composer chose since he could have written it it any key. You are very pioneering.

[gkertsopoulos]

Thanks my friend, it is an important issue the chosen key and scale chosen by the composer-an issue of both acoustic and musical influences as exploited by many researchers, one of the pioneers on the subject being Helmholtz with his wonderful work "The sensations of tone", stay well and active, Yorgos

[xXxGoyexXx]

Esta muy bien pero a mi gusto personal no me gusta :)!! Saludos!

[donottawaguitar]

epic like a page out of the bible

[TrustNooooo1]

beautiful! finally some fresh and original recording of asturias! love it!

[dagutierre19060]

Mr. Very good technic on the guiitar, in my personal opinion the flamenco is the best of all.

Truly you are a master

[paliouras47]

mpravo kai apo mena kurie giorgo!eiste eklplhktikos

[gpavlaras]

Amazing!! Your hands are really fast and they do not miss a note!!!! Well done!!

[bmimatt]

Absolutely the most spirited interpretation of Asturias. Stunning performance.  Thank you for sharing, Sir.

[marthoulini007]

wraiocc :)

[markusboyd3]

i am learning this song on my guitar the same versian as this.