Leo Brouwer - stunning new solo guitar recording on YouTube

[Multicore]

Sonata Homo Ludens No. 8 played by Deion Cho​

This video went up on Youtube recently and I think it's really something.

• The composition is newish, 2021, and sensational.
• The performance is from 2022. The playing is unreal. Having that much control is mind bending to me but Cho uses that control beautifully throughout, an aesthetic triumph.
• The sound recording in that acoustic space is glorious. The engineer(s?) did well to capture it so that the long reverberation does not distract from the main feature but is there to complement it and add a sense of being somewhere special.
• The physical space is beautiful and inspiring too. It is well lit and photographed. At times I think the video production is over-ambitious, show-off to the point of being distracting but I guess it's churlish to say so given how much I paid for this.

I've learned to play 5 works by Leo Brouwer so far, all much easier than this of course, and I started work on Estudios Sencillios XIII yesterday. I have the highest respect for his art.

If you're new to Brouwer, these's lots in streaming and youtube.

 

[jhenderson0107]

I've been a Brouwer fan for many years. Excellent performance and recording by Cho with great videography. Bigger-than-life acoustics for classical guitar in that venue.

Thibault Cauvin Plays Leo Brouwer is also technically and artistically excellent, but the antithesis in terms of room acoustics (intimate, close-mic). Check it out.

 

[Multicore]

Thibault Cauvin Plays Leo Brouwer is also technically and artistically excellent, but the antithesis in terms of room acoustics (intimate, close-mic). Check it out.

That's a very good collection. I loaded his ES XIII into Reaper yesterday to add markers and aid learning the piece. There are about 6 different recordings of it in streaming and Cauvin's is the standout best. Do you know if he has recorded the Piezas sin titulo?

Let's see Thibault Cauvin Plays Leo Brouwer up on the Jumbotron!

Estudios Sencillos VII : Lo Más Rápido Posible​

I play this piece (badly) and it makes me laugh every time. It's cool that Cauvin adds his own joke to it.

 

[computer-audiophile]

... At times I think the video production is over-ambitious, show-off to the point of being distracting but I guess it's churlish to say so given how much I paid for this...

I like the look of the concert space. I think it's nice when there's something for the eye as well.

More about the art-site in the video: https://www.muralalarcon.org/

 

[Tremolo]

Thank you, I really like his playing. And the soud of his guitar too. Paco Santiago Marin learnt guitar making in the workshop of his uncle, Antonio Marin Montero, whose guitar is in my profile picture

 

[computer-audiophile]

Thibault Cauvin Plays Leo Brouwer

Thibault Cauvin - album - 2020 - 30 Songs

www.deezer.com

Very nice!

I just realized that the classical guitar has almost been forgotten by me, even though I used to play it myself and used to own some very good classical guitars. This is due to the fact that it plays in the concerts with contemporary Classic mostly hardly a significant role. But these are the concerts we attend most often.

 

[Multicore]

I just realized that the classical guitar has almost been forgotten by me, even though I used to play it myself and used to own some very good classical guitars. This is due to the fact that it plays in the concerts with contemporary Classic mostly hardly a significant role. But these are the concerts we attend most often.

The guitar had a problem with repertoire. This has greatly improved during my lifetime. We are very lucky to have Leo Brouwer. I'm no specialist in the area but I have the sense that his efforts have contributed greatly to the vitality of contemporary guitar we see now.