Mr Mertz knew how to squeeze every bit of beauty out of a melody and this is a brilliant example wonderfully played. A gorgeous piece with lots of what the guitar does best. I love it and thank RU-vid from brining people into contact with this music. A masterpiece played by a master guitarist.
Carlos: muchas veces estuve a punto de ir a alguno de tus conciertos en Buenos aires, pero mi trabajo no me lo permitía; tu interpretación de Elegie me rasulta maravillosa. ojalá no falte oportunidad de poder asistir una actuación en vivo.Gacias, maestro.
I'm trying to learn this at the moment. Can anyone explain why the first chord of the second bar is marked 8va but on every recording I've heard it just seems like everyone just ignores it? It's actually written in several places but I can't tell what it's supposed to mean.
Askar Tjulers I’d say at the very least 6-7 years of relatively systematic practice if you want to be able to play the piece as it is written. It’s a really, really difficult piece. I’m 5 years in to guitar, around Villa-Lobos etudes/La Catedral level, and I don’t think I’ll be able to tackle something like this for the next few years
Hungarian! And to me it really ain't spanish music. It's very romantic in style. Schumman and perhaps italian classical influences? Besides I kinda feel that germans and austro-hungarian composers wrote even more passionate music than their spanish brothers and sisters.
