Andrés Segovia 1961 (Ponce, Sor, Villa Lobos, Torroba)

[Dan_Frechette_Songwriter]

Here’s what someone who loves and cares for every note they play sounds and feels like.

[lonball]

I have seen Andrés Segovia in solo concerts three times in Denver. I was a teenager with my mother and my brother. Also, Elvis, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan 1st tour, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane & many others, but Segovia was the most memorable, fantastic with his stubby fingers.

[Emboaba]

My first time watching this guitar player

I couldn’t imagine such a perfection,
The best ever

[ИванВасильевГитараПесниподгита]

Гений гитары!Рыцарь Гитары!Выдающийся музыкант, Артист с Большой Буквы!!!Культура исполнения -это высшее совершенство!Браво маэстро!!!❤

[robertotosini]

Grazie Maestro, il migliore di sempre, per sempre. Nessuno mai come Te.😮

[laurenblainebamartistmgt]

I was fortunate enough to work with a classical guitar player who studied under Segovia’s student, Miguel Jobet.
My friend has passed now but when I listen to Segovia, I hear beautiful little flavors of my friend’s talent. Segovia is missed by the world. I miss my dear friend.

[bfuiltugomaith]

Thankyou for posting I’m 78 now and play the classical guitar …but not like this. I first saw Segovia when I was 14 on RTE TV he was playing Requerdos del Al Hambra and I was literally blown away at this old man electrifying me with this magic ….my father got me a guitar tge following Year but it wasn’t a classical such a thing didn’t exist in Ireland until I met te great Irish Guitarist Michael Howard in Navan ..he was truly theGod of the Guitar

[MarkInLA]

Many know the maestro saw the guitar as a mini-orchestra..His amazing control of all the voices proves this..

[claranotario]

Cuatro comentarios sobran, para estar orgullosa de este español, poco conocido y reconocido. Yo de música desgraciadamente na!!. Pero oído tengo. Este hombre fue un genio que influyó en grandes músicos de todo el mundo

[ricardoaguilar]

Exelente ejecución muchas gracias por compartirla

[peterhagen]

A recording with no mixing table, no sound engineering or correction, no reverb. And it still sounds. Why? - Segovia.

[davidlarondelle]

I never grow tired of listening to Segovia!!

[TonKuipers]

Very good original recording of the great master🎶👌🎶👌 A joy to listen. thx for posting

[davidlarondelle]

Thanks for sharing. We can learn so much from watching and 🎶listening

[sirrobinofloxley]

The famous flamenco maestro, Nino Ricardo, once said "To play flamenco the fingers must dance upon the strings". Maestro Segovia teaches us another understanding of what that means in that he writes to us with his guitar the pen and the music his paper. He says we are alive and we can celebrate it with every fibre of our beings, just hear it, it is there, follow it and you find it! Thank Maestro and thank you for sharing this exceptionally beautiful tv recording of a talent of all the talents.

[pietbliksem]

What I find astounding for one of my generation (I'm 56) is the amount of negative criticism leveled at the man who single-handedly rescued the classical guitar from total obscurity. Yes, his sound is old-fashioned and romantic, but that is how musicians played in his day! Think of this. If it wasn't for Andres Segovia the guitar as a classical instrument would have remained a curiosity, like the ukulele. It was only played as such in private clubs, without nails, and without any respect from the classical community. The classical music scene's opinion was that the guitar, however charming, just didn't have the sonority to stand up and be heard in concert, and needed to be relegated, like the lute, to the past.

There was no 'scene' outside of Spain, where it was a very minor thing of the late guitar composer Francisco Tarrega club. There were no classical guitar concerts and no way to make a living as a classical guitarist; unless you could convince the classical scene that you were a curiosity worth subsidising for a concert. This is what he achieved; He rescued the classical guitar from obscurity and enshrined it as a concert classical instrument, as well as educating a follower base to the extent of starting a whole new musical scene. He single-handedly mobilised the musical public to the glory of his music and created a sensation. He definitely was the father of us all - in this John Lennon was absolutely right.

I'm not saying Maestro Segovia wasn't a concert classical snob and a classical guitar purist - he most definitely was - just think of his famous snub to the Beatles; apparently John Lennon opined in an interview that Segovia was the Daddy of us all, and when Andres Segovia was told this he noted that if this were the case he sadly had to admit that he couldn't remember the mother! To Wanda Landowska; the very great French/Polish harpsichordist, he stated that the harpsichord was a pointless instrument and past it's time, as it sounded like a piano with a cold!
Diplomacy was definitely not on his CV; but listen to his playing! I've just played this same video to a friend of mine who records Bach, Mozart and Brahms on piano (and beautifully!), and he's totally blown away, of course. Maestro Segovia played beautifully, he was a consummate artist, and together with Julian Bream the reason why the classical guitar is my first instrument. Of the early performing guitar virtuosos they where the most unique, and both in their own way willing to forgo convention for the glory of their music. It was Segovia who started playing with his nails when everyone else was using fingertip flesh only; and Bream who was musician enough to realise the wisdom of this and change horses in midstream. He subsequently had to face the same kind of wannabe envy criticism Segovia knew only too well when he reintroduced John Dowland's lute music and played it with nails on his reconstructed Renaissance lute ; because it sounded better to him that way.

I must admit that I value and love his vinyl recordings of Dowland and often play them; although they are also beautifully played by the more recent fingertip only crowd. Which of you chaps know that Fernando Sor was also of this persuasion and only played with fingertips! Fingertip only is more historically correct for lute and guitar; but I definitely concur with Segovia that nails are really necessary for a sonorous classical guitar tone.
Needless to say; I'm a fan of them both and they were both part of the reason why the guitar captured my heart. Thank you Neil Yonamine for posting this video. I can listen to and watch my old Maestro any time. I don't find anything unmusical about this recording, as it suits the more romantic approach of his times. Given the context of the culture he came from, he made quite a romantic splash with his guitar. As a guitarist and knowing the technical difficulties inherent in our instrument; you don't get to look down on the likes of the great Segovia unless you have at least matched his achievements. Just experience his legato - if nothing else; this isn't easy on the classical guitar!

[Lincoln]

I admire the way he plays through his mistakes without losing his composure

[jacquesfontaine]

L'aisance de tout interprète quelque soit l'instrument dont il est le champion fait tjs plaisir à voir autant qu'à entendre.C'est le cas ici pour la guitare, c'était vrai pour Rampal pour la flûte, pour Pablo Casals pour le violoncelle, etc après il reste la modestie devant le génie, l'admiration devant les compositeurs, et le plaisir de l'écoute.

[welchshahan]

Thank you very, very, much for posting this HE IS THE

[jorgemontanomoron]

UN MAESTRO pienso q Andres Segovia fue el mejor guitarrista del mundo