LUTE SUITE BWV995(3)-BACH-GREGORIADOU-GUITAR

J.S.BACH, GAVOTTES I,II,I-GIGUE FROM LUTE SUITE BWV995:Originally for lute & cello, suite BWV995 by J.S. Bach is transcribed and interpreted by Smaro Gregoriadou on a triple-double-single stringed guitar in re-entrant tuning (WORLD PREMIERE), representing Kertsopoulos Aesthetics*. Live in Athens, Attiko Odeio Concert Hall, 1/3/08. REINVENTING GUITAR!

*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, being the official artistic representative of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics worldwide.

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Music

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• LUTE
• SUITE
• BWV995
• BACH
• GREGORIADOU
• GUITAR
• UNUSUAL
• GUITARS
• BAROQUE
• TRANSCRIPTION
• SEGOVIA
• WILLIAMS
• BREAM
• YEPES
• KERTSOPOULOS

[sgregoriadou]

Many thanksfor your comment, Tim

Keep well

Smaro

[GyveTurckee]

Wow, very little warmth. On the upside it does sound just like a harpsichord.

[guitarscribe]

@DonAnzalone If you look very carefully I think there are _vertical_ pegs onthe headstock.

[guitarscribe]

Another fascinating demonstration from an excellent guitarist. Smaro, what's it like to play a guitar with a scalloped fingerboard?  Electric guitarists have had access to guitars with scallops on some of the higher frets for a while now, but these are on the higher strings to facilitate string bending. But on one of Kertsopoulos's guitars I think that _all_ the fretboard is scalloped? I would think there are intonation issues. But on the other hand perhaps the strings are easy to depress?

[kasumimi]

The guitar is so you of tune I'm not going to sleep tonight.

Great effort though.

[eloyhbermudez]

its me or is he out of tune... beside that good interpretation

[melopheas]

es una forma magistral de interpretar bachrroco.enhorabuena virtuoso!

[DirkPovel]

Very virtuoso but a pity that the instrument is (sounds) so badly out of tune. Also the room acoustics don't help.

[FreeTheJambon]

Wow. Just wow.

[DonAnzalone]

A very interesting guitar indeed. What is the mechanical arrangement? I see only six nuts, so how do they span more than six strings? Perhaps know somebody hiow it works?

[rmgj]

There is nothing in this world that compares to J:S: Bach's music.