Angelo Gilardino repertoire

[sam.d...@gmail.com]

Dear friends,

I've been listening to the first two cd's of 'trascedentia' recorded
by mr. Porqueddu. I was really enhousiastic about it.

Both the quality of playing and the quality of composing...

I wondered if any of you ever tried one of the pieces by this great
composer.

Share me your opinions, and what you've been experiencing when
studying...

Was it hard?
Is it comparable to any other pieces you've played before when it
comes to composition or to the level of difficulty?
Is it written idiomatic for the instrument?
Did you feel it was worth investing time in studying it?
Have you ever played it on a recital? If so, how did the audience
experienced the piece and how did you experienced this?
Do you feel you need to do research about the title and the way it was
written?
...

Just a few questions to get you inspired...

Thanks in advance

Sam

[la...@deack.net]

On May 14, 8:54 am, sam.des...@gmail.com wrote:

They have been much discussed in the past.

Check the RMCG archive for STUDI

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=%22STUDI%22&num=10&scoring=r&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=rec.music.classical.guitar&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=5&as_maxy=2008&safe=off

> Just a few questions to get you inspired...

> Sam

Sam, have you tried any of them?

[arys]

Hi!

The scores are very well fingered and the pieces lie perfectly on the
guitar. They are, on average, (much) more difficult than studies and
caprices by Brouwer, Villa-Lobos or Legnani.

1, 14 and 53 are great technique workouts, the type I haven't seen
anywhere else. (Although I'm sure I can't play them anywhere near at
the required speed) :)

Looking forward to memorising all of them... if I live long enough.

-Matti Karjalainen

[arys]

On 14 touko, 18:54, sam.des...@gmail.com wrote:

Also, I'd warmly recommend "Annunciazione", "A Quiet Song" and
"Colloquio con Andrés Segovia". They are not virtuosic as Studies or
his other hard pieces are, but definitely not easy either. They are
slow-paced and not "modern-sounding".

-Matti Karjalainen

[Richard Yates]

>Also, I'd warmly recommend... "A Quiet Song" and

>"Colloquio con Andrés Segovia". They are not virtuosic as Studies or
>his other hard pieces are, but definitely not easy either. They are
>slow-paced and not "modern-sounding". -Matti Karjalainen

mp3s (from MIDI files, believe it or not!) of these pieces are at:

http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/QuietSong.mp3

http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Colloquio.mp3

Maestro Gilardino complimented these versions.

Richard Yates

[la...@deack.net]

The best CG MIDIs I've ever heard. It's too bad you have not made
some sort of software that can apply your sound fonts to more CG
repertoire automatically.

AG is a master and his STUDI should be part of any serious
student's program, just as Sor and HLV is a must. I agree with Klaus
when he said that too much of the work we do is transcriptions that
don't take full advantage of the idiomatic nature of our instrument. I
believe transcriptions have an important place in the study of the
instrument and classical music but to play the STUDI is to learn
something that no transcription can teach us.

Richard, have you played any of AG pieces? I know you are a fine
transcriber but don't you agree that AG's works are important to the
development any serious student?

[Richard Yates]

>> mp3s (from MIDI files, believe it or not!) of these pieces are at:
>> http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/QuietSong.mp3
>> http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Colloquio.mp3
>> Maestro Gilardino complimented these versions.
>> Richard Yates

>The best CG MIDIs I've ever heard. It's too bad you have not made
>some sort of software that can apply your sound fonts to more CG
>repertoire automatically.

Well, I have set up playback articulations in Finale that can be assigned
with a single keystroke (normal, tasto, ponticello, harmonic...), and
dynamics could be done similarly, but for tempo variations and dynamics i
import the MIDI made in Finale into Sonar 3 and tweak it there. Gets
cumbersome. I am sure that I spent more time with both those pieces doing
that than I would have if I was preparing them for live performance. The
ones that I am most proud of however were done for a demo CD accompanying
one of Matanya's editions:
http://www.editionsorphee.com/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=69 .

A couple of the mp3 from MIDI files are at:

http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/01-Pastorale-V-G-F.mp3

http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/03-Final-V-G-F.mp3

>AG is a master and his STUDI should be part of any serious

>student's program, just as Sor and HLV is a must....

> Richard, have you played any of AG pieces? I know you are a fine
>transcriber but don't you agree that AG's works are important to the
>development any serious student?

I have played only the pieces that I made MIDIs of for him. I have not
studied the Studi. I have no doubt that Gilardino is one of the most
important composers of the last 20 years. And his career has encompassed
outstanding work in many areas: composing, performing, teaching, editing,
publishing.

[Andrew Schulman]

On May 14, 5:33 pm, Bertran de Born <howardj...@yahoo.com> wrote:

TG-
Nice sock puppet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertran_de_Born

Andrew

[la...@deack.net]

TG is a master sock puppeteer!

"There are a wide range of styles of puppetry but whatever the
style, the puppeteer's role is to manipulate the physical object in
such a manner that the audience believes the object is imbued with
life."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppeteer

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