A Diverse Miscellany
First, a wonderful concert by Joaquín Panadés and Daniele Sardone, both no-nailers: Another splendid video of Carles Trepat and Carmen Jimenez. Again, both no-nailers: I’ve been researching the harp and nails. The concert harp (from the Classical period onwards) has always been played without nails, but historically nails were sometimes…
News Roundup
First up, hot off the press, a new Carles Trepat video. This time he’s playing a Torres guitar that belonged to Severino García Fortea (1854-1931), a friend, neighbor, and student of Francisco Tárrega: Enrica Savigni and Marco Ramelli have a new duo album out. Enrica plays without nails and Marco…
Sor’s Magic Flute Variations — without nails
This extraordinary video deserves a post of its own. Here is Jon Mendle playing Sor’s most famous piece, Introduction, Theme and Variations on a Theme of Mozart, op. 9. He is using a guitar from c. 1830, with gut strings, and is following Sor’s no-nail technique. A must watch:
Four Remarkable Players
Teresa de Rogatis (1893-1979). Rogatis was an Italian player with a considerable reputation. For a long time she taught in Cairo and helped to found the National Conservatory of Egypt. She also wrote a number of compositions, for piano as well as guitar, which have since been recorded. There is…
Three more players
First, Nicola Pignatiello, who plays without nails on gut strings, as here (but grows nails when using nylgut). I think this a magical performance: Vincent Dubès is an extraordinary virtuoso, specialising in 19th century guitar. There aren’t many recordings of him yet, especially since he cut off his nails a…
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