Set in the Prado museum, Segovia interprets a tonadilla by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados based on F. Goya's painings, "La maja desnuda" and "La maja vestida." (with narration)
La interpretación de Segovia es magnífica, a pesar que la hizo con avanzada edad. Pero, debido al narrador, el vídeo se hace pesado y por tal motivo no me gustó.
That haughty attitude is what kills classical music. The context for the music is extremely important and the world needs more musical story telling. Imagine listening to Usher Waltz or El Retrato de Dorian Gray without knowing the stories behind them. Giving the audience the context enhances their experience of the music, especially in people who are new to classical music.
SEgovia was the best , for he was the first with such skill ,responsible for population of guitar . Without him Williams would play piano or some other instrument.RESPECT maestro.
No one plays this piece better than Segovia, especially the second part. In Segovia's hands, this piece is the sound of heaven, whereas in many others' hands, it can sound like from hell. Also, that narration is like the sound from hell.
Es horrible que un narrador hable mientras Andrés Segovia toca. Solo un tonto puede hacer tal cosa! Porfavor eviten dañar la información histórica y las grandes obras de arte!
SEgovia was the best , for he was the first with such skill ,responsible for population of guitar . Without him Williams would play piano or some other instrument.RESPECT maestro.
EXISTE UN MARAVILLOSO IDIOMA EN EL MUNDO QUE SE LLAMA . ESPAÑOL -CASTELLANO .Se pordrían haber tomado la molestia de haberle puesto subtítulos en ESPAÑOL. La obra entonces hubiera estado perfecta / THERE IS A WONDERFUL LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD CALLED . SPANISH -CASTELLANO. They could have taken the trouble to have put subtitles in SPANISH. The work then would have been perfect // JIMM
We all know Segovia could play these pieces with his eyes closed, it was his TOUCH not his skills that not even his students learned properly that sets him apart. Took me 20 years to understand his touch and finger vibrato techniques, I play by ear so what I can hear I can play it. I can play these pieces in my head like a player so the tone pitch of what I hear is memorized.
What a magnificent performance by Segovia. This was always one of his signature pieces. Somehow the music adds to the paintings, but is absolutely independent in its beauty (even though, the paintings are facts behind the genesis of the music). Now, bringing the two together is a splendid esthetic experience: but the paintings benefit more from the music than the music from the paintings (obviously, since one artistic means (painting) which is concrete here is being expressed by another (music), which is quite abstract). Isn´t the music the best commentary here on the painting? The narrator is superfluous, and should have introduced the paintings, said what he had too, and then introduced Segovia and allowed him to play the Maja without further commentary. The music perfectly captures the beauty, coquetishness and playfull of the enigmatic woman.
Yes, he really played this piece awesome. When compared to the version of Julian Bream, although they are both rhythmically and sensefully played, Segovia takes out some kind of magic and mistery from this tune that Bream doesn't. Listen to this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4Mc1VbydByU.html Actually listen the whole album which is uploaded in the same channel, please. It will be an awesome guitaristic experience, believe me. It's such an strange and magical melody... it's an awesome piece of music, a complete progressive musical line without repetitions, which makes total sense as a unit itself. Magnificent. I wonder how did Granados conceive this melody. Maybe it's folklore? About this performance, is also great. From what it seems it's played alive, unlike many guitarist who add the recording to the video performance. But the narrator really ruins the music totally. I doubt that he had the consent of Segovia to do it. He really demonstrates how little he cares about the music, otherwise he wouldn't do it. He seems to cares more about the painting when it's something totally mute, specially when it's sounding the guitar. The music has much more life than painting, that's for sure, but this guy spoils everything. To be honest i don't see such connection between the painting and the music. I only perceive the musical concepts in a separated and independent way without being related to anything. And i don't perceieve the mistery in that woman's painting. It's just a painting for me, does not awake sensations on me. It's true that we could have a more fruitful conversation talking about the painting. But i think it would be necessary to overcome the typical artistic-view supposed to awake sensations on us. Like: "ooh, see that stroke there, and the expression of the face, ooh ooh, i'm having orgasms". That's for me just pure snobbery. I dont know what's your experience.
There's so much music and so much feeling in his guitar playing... Everything he played was not noise, it was MUSIC, and even if his technique was not even near to the best guitarist of nowadays, he really taught the world how to play music. This piece is a clear example: it's the musical transposition of an enigmatic and visionary painting, so it had to communicate the same emotions that looking at the painting can give. And the target is perfectly reached by Segovia. Grazie, Maestro.
I hate the pretentious charlatanery of painting. This narrator is an example, he just loses his time and a bit of ours talking nonsense about a drawing while the music is sounding,87 as if it would have had some kind of an underlying misterious meaning. The only misterious fact about a painting like this is how it can be worth million dollars, that simple.
+JulianJules When I was much, much younger, I thought as you do. I changed my mind. And what changed my mind was education. I agree that this tv presenter is not ideal - he is making tv, after all, not delivering a lecture at Oxford, the Sorbonne or Harvard. But pick up some books or go to your local university and take a course in art and art history and I assure you, you will see things differently.
Parece que muchos no han entendido que el video trata de conjugar la pintura celebérrima de Goya con la composición dedicada a la misma por Granados. Un poco de cultura en general y pictórica en particular les vendría bien a algunos. Para escuchar sólo guitarra existen otros canales.
The question is, does the commentary add anything to the experience? Is there any insight from, say, academic research in art history? It just sounds like the commentary is not up to the standard of the performance, the composition, or the painting. It's not bad, it appears merely to be the result of cursory investigation of the topic. I cannot imagine much work went into it at all, just pretty phrases and speculation.
Segovia is the father of the modern guitar and is responsible by its rising as a concert instrument. But, you have to admit that his playing is very poor compared to today guitarists and other instrumentalists. Even in his time his playing wasnt the best,Go listen to Regino de la maza, Ida Presti,or Alirio Diaz, you will get what i mean.
zemaneldaquinta Nunca me gustó Segovia a primera vista. Siempre me sucede lo mismo, que empiezo a ver el toque como chapucero... y terminan sorprendiéndome los pasajes maravillosos que acaba arrancando cuando está inspirado. Algunas grabaciones solo o acompañado son memorables. Forma parte de aquellos intérpretes que todavía transmitían algo del siglo xix que parece haberse perdido completamente.
Years ago I also used to think Segovia was not as good as other great classical guitarists (I'd never say "very poor" in comparison). Now, with more than 40 years as a classical guitarist myself, and having studied performances for years, PhD and all, I think few come even close, at least compared to his prime. Segovia goes so far back that many of the recordings were not very good, and his sound comes across as tinny. But when you get a chance to hear something closer to his "real" sound, and more importantly, the variety of sounds he produces, it's an entirely different experience. There are many technically proficient players today, but the facet I find extraordinary in Segovia is along another dimension. Even at an age when most musicians would have already been in their 2+ decade of retirement, he still produced music I can only describe as "noble".
