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Everything about this video screams early 1800s. the setting, the guitar, the slightly darker tuning just beautiful. As for your playing it is masterfully played yet kept very traditional. Maestro Sor himself would be proud. Bravo!!!
Beautifully played on a wonderful guitar, I listened on my phone with B O blue tooth headphones, the sound was quite amazing, thank you all involved, I'm a student again with plenty of time to practice after suffering a stroke last year, I started just to improve my brain and useless hand muscle function, and I'm pleased to say I have been improving, I have to be not disheartened by enjoying your wonderfull music I'm 79 so if I can start to learn anyone can , God Bless
Wonderful playing and beautifully recorded. Such a pleasure to watch a performer who plays thoughtfully but without making it about them. Thank you for modeling humility!
I was thinking to myself while listening again that this is as close as it gets to what Sor himself must have sounded like , a virtuoso who knows his music and playing his music on more or less the same guitar ,
@@alabudzki74 The most notable thing is that the strings are quite a bit closer to the soundboard than on a standard classical guitar. So the plucking movements of the right hand have to be more subtle.
@@PatrikKleemola Thank you for you kind answer. I forwarded your performance to some of my friends who are teaching classical guitar. I was also amazed at ... Hmmm I am going to call it a snare drum sound in some of theSor's pieces. I have never heard them done the way you do it. I also didn't know that Sor included sounds like that in his pieces. Very amazing. All of it. And the setting was also so refreshing. Was it a wooden church or I am mistaken? Either way, I have probable taken too much of your time. Loved it and subscribed to your channel. Thank you, Sir.
@@alabudzki74 Sor called it the trumpet sound, which he described in his Method. Only piece where he actually wrote it in the score is in the end of Sérénade op. 37. In one concert in Paris the reviewer wrote just one sentence to describe Sor's performance: "Sor's guitar replaced the whole orchestra".
Hermoso, escuchar a Sor con una sonoridad que históricamente informada, trata de traernos lo que pudo hacer sido. Bellísima interpretación, por demás 🎉🎉🎉
We all played Sor on standard classical guitars. They sounded just fine--until you heard them played correctly on a period instrument. I don't know that I've heard better than this. Bravo as well for being one of the rare few who can keep a tempo.
Good remark about keeping the tempo. It is shown that Sor's contemporaries and later on, the composers didn't want rubato and other free-style tempo changes.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INSPIRED PERFORMANCE! (And all the titles) This has several benefits, help me relax, And in so doing help me sleep well. Then inspire me so I start practicing first thing in the morning. The guitar is magnificent!
Muy bueno el video, el gran compositor Sor, interpretado conjunto guitarra de la época genera un ambiente mágico, felicitaciones por las interpretaciones 👏👏👏
Thank you for your wonderful work, sir.I have never been quite a fan of the classical guitar, although I more or less play it too. Nevertheless, I happened to own an old guitar of similar age. However, mine was not made by such a famous luthier. And all those old instruments are priceless, and all of them deserve the same respect since all of them have made it through centuries having lived rich and adventurous lives. No matter how good they are compared to each other, no matter how pristine or scratched they are, all of them are sisters. You play wonderfully and your guitar is a miracle. Yet most of all I love its stylish case! Hyvää päivää ja kiitos! (I was born in Finland)
Well Patrik !!! Very beautiful performance . Only the sound of the bass strings is a little soft .... Could you switch up these frequences in the equalizer when you make a video ? Good luck Patrik !!! :-)
This is simply marvellous, Patrik. Your performance is of course outstanding (it always is!) but your production collaborator also deserves a word of congratulations for his fine work. This is one best guitar videos I've ever seen. And the Lacote guitar is magnificent - you are privileged indeed to have such an instrument in your possession! This is surely how Sor's music is meant to sound - quiet and reflective, conceived not for the concert hall, but for the intimacy of the salon. Thank you for sharing this with your appreciative audience!
Tuomas Kourula has done great job here and I warmly recommend to check out Turku Early Music RU-vid channel were you can see more his recent work with nice performances: www.youtube.com/@TurkuEarlyMusic
@@PatrikKleemola Thanks for directing me to Tuomas's channel. He is certainly much more than 'just' a talented videographer! It looks like the classical guitar (and its historical antecedents) are very well represented in Turku.
Greetings from Mexico. It's the first time I hear music from Sor. And let me tell you, I'm amazed. When listening to this beautiful music I lose track of time and space. Thank you so much for all the effort you and your partners have put on making this video. Congratulations!
I am simply in heaven listening to and watching this video! It must be such a joy to be able to play Sor's music so well and on such an instrument. Thank you so much for sharing that joy with us here on RU-vid. Watching the instrument go back in its case at the end actually made me feel a little sad. 🥲
Thank you Eric for your beautiful comment! The magnificent Fantaisie Élégiaque op. 59 was Sor's last grand concert work for solo guitar after which he published only the collection of easy lessons op. 60, of which the last piece in this video is the last one. Op. 60 was published 1837, the same year his only daughter suddenly died, I feel this last piece with harmonics is indeed a lullaby...
Is it possible Sor held or even played this instrument?? Must be such a treat for you to own it , really your playing and commitment to Sor s music fully deserves it
@@AlanMcCarthyguitar well we don't know exactly when in 1839 the guitar was finished and Sor died in July. It was a special model with special decorations and expecially the tuning locks reveals this was precious model. In fictional story Sor could have held this instrument on his deathbed...maybe he could have!
Eric - listening to Patrik's beautiful performance here, I smiled, recalling the fellow in the TB forum who admonished us for imagining that Sor was anything other than a second-rate hack!
@@PatrikKleemola I've never thought of this little piece in that light, Patrik, but I think you may well be right about the circumstances of its composition. Sor's daughter was, I remember reading, a promising young guitarist, much doted upon by her father. (Sor, a single parent, is said never to have recovered from the loss of his only child. ) A tender lullaby as the composer's final word is surely an apt, if poignant, ending to his remarkable story.
Really nice ! I love the first work Andante (from the old Segovia Mexicana LP) and Op29 No24 most . No microphones appear really close to the sound hole so it must be projecting a good sound! Dr. Brooks knows his work!
Thank you so much! I used Aquila's Ambra 800 nylgut set, after my experiments with real gut sets were not satisfactory. However, I'll keep experimenting more with gut strings, and perhaps in future I'll use them on a recording.
Congratulations Patrik, this surely is the best video you have produced so far. Beautiful location, lighting, picture, GUITAR(!) and last but not least your playing. Thank you!
Super video Patrik ! I love Sor and your performances of him ! I was thinking of buying an Altamira historical guitar , they have a Stauffer copy and a Sor III Lacote copy , the sound of these romantic guitars is so beautiful and unique
Beautiful job, Patrik! And brave to produce and keep the brass sounds in the way Sor intended and described them. Many would mistakenly think those brassy effects ‘bad’ sounds.
Thanks, Lars! It was often described that Sor produced the whole orchestra with his guitar playing. I'm sure he added a pizzicato here and brass sound there...
Congratulations! Fernando Sor is great composer and you are playing his great music !!!You remind us that guitar would not exist without Sor s compositions!!!!!!
Outstanding. Such a wonderful surprise! Can I ask you 2 things? These 19th century guitars have the same e minor tuning as the modern ones? What strings do you use? Thank you
Great concert! Would love to hear the same pieces played in a standard concert Classical Guitar to compare and contrast them. Although I am familiar with Lacote guitars, but not the scale length. Can you tell us what it is?
@@StevenBornfeld Yes it is amazing, as I wrote somewhere else that I have guitars made for me that are now in worse condition... do my best to look after it well!
Your playing is beautiful. It looks as if you seldom use the 'a' finger which I believe is very much in keeping with Fernando Sor's right hand technique. Are you using nails or flesh? A combination?
Thank you! It's a combination, I have nails but on thumb my angle of attack is such that the nail doesn't touch the string. So it's very much how Aguado ended up playing after the influence from Sor. I have approached Sor right hand technique (Sor only once gave a right hand fingerings in any of his pieces, Op. 35 No. 19, included on this video), which means that thumb is much more active while "a" finger is used seldom. Sor's method gives us some idea how he used the right hand.
It seems to be Fernando Sor played without nails until he met Dionisio Aguado at the Favart hotel in Paris but to Sor don't like the nails sound. Congratulations for your job!
Sain synttärilahjaksi kitaran 16v .Viljo Immosen kitarakoulun sekä af Geijerstamin ja Rörbyn 1. kitarakirjan jälkeen kahlasin läpi Sorin 20 Ausgewählte Menuette. Siihen meni vähän päälle 2 kk. Siitä on jo yli 50 v mutta Sor on edelleen nro 1. Hyvänä kakkosena tällä hetkellä: Agustin Barrios Mangore...
Sorin musiikki on osoittanut kestävän hyvin aikaa. Itselläni Sorin soittaminen varhaisromantiikan ajan kitaralla ja nyttemmin vielä Lacoten soittimella on tuonut säveltäjän musiikin vielä lähemmäksi.
great. However, we realize that this instrument provides nothing more than the Torres or Arias model. I play on a Maugin myself, we don't win anything objectively. La réalité est parfois difficile à accepter.
Good performance, too bad you put a billion ads, even before starting and interrupting throughout. Guess romantic guitar doesn't pay enough. You've got my dislike solely for that
