Jonathan Parkin - Fernando Sor - Etude op.6 No.11 - McClaren Guitars 

Hi Bea, I would be interested to know what aspects of technique and musicality from my interpretation differ from the 19th century approach. Apart from the cushion of course haha All the best Jonathan

@@jrpguitar6164 Thank you, Dear Jonathan, for the civility of your reply and your query. The following things in your performance practice are not of the 19th century... #1. Your idea of tone as something which must be something of beauty. #2. You playing of the melody in such a way as you telegraph everything that is to come, leaving no surprise for there to be had. #3. Your total lack of willingness to exploit the guitar's greatest strength - variance of colour and texture. #4. Your minimizing of the ebb and flow of the general tempo of this piece. #5. Your plucking technique. #6. Your truncating of the dynamic range of this piece. The long and the short of it is this - you play lovely music in a lovely modern way, which is certainly fine, but, it is not the 19th century. If you want to remedy this, you can spend a couple of years listening to those pianists (Pachmann, Paderewski, Grunfeld, Rosenthal, Sauer, Cortot, etc, etc) or vocalists (Galli-Curci, Luisa Tetrazzini, Matteo Battistini, Enrico Caruso, Nellie Melba etc, etc,) who were born as early as the 1840s and whose recordings in the first two decades of the 20th century left a clear record of how musicians from that culture regarded the performance of musick. Be well!

C'est en tout cas un débat intéressant Béa et Jonathan. Ça me rappelle un livre d'Harnoncourt sur l'interprétation (et la compréhension) de la musique ancienne . Pour moi, qui n'ai aucune formation musicale, j'aime beaucoup l'interprétation que donne Jonathan de cette pièce étude de Sor.

@@beasheerhan4482 Are there any guitarists that you could add to that list?

@@beasheerhan4482 It's probably just all the smoke.