James Piorkowski plays Francesco Corbetta [Monday Motivation]
I’ve been working on a project that involves a lot of early music listening. While poking around youtube, James Piorkowski playing Francesco Corbetta’s Caprice de Chaconne popped up in a search result. If you like the piece, check out James’ arrangement or head over to his website.
Pierre de Luc
A modern classical guitar sounds terrible for this repertoire.
I also began as a normal classical guitarist, but now play a few more instruments. Believe me, the difference is… well: day and night!
Corbetta calls for a Baroque guitar. There’s just no way around it.
You can listen to some samples as played by Rosario Conte on a baroque guitar. His interpretation is also lightyears better!
Sample here: http://shop.carpediem-records.de/de/Une-Larme
(also here)
There’s also a version on youtube, but it’s low quality and there are people moving their chairs around which is really terrible soundwise.
There’s a version by Rolf Lislevand also, link
(Nice sound, but I prefer Rosario Conte’s interpretation)
Pierre de Luc
The direct link to a sample by Rosario Conte is: here
Pierre de Luc
Another outstanding interpretation, this time of Corbette’s Folia (also from the collection “La guitarre royalle”) is played by Giancarlo Rado (found on this CD.
No Smallman-holding, Torres-holding, Hauser-holding etc. classical guitarist would ever make it sound so good: 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xT3FqBsulo
Olivier Jus
Some recommended early listening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvDJbf8Jtq8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQK2clXfUpc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2mmv6rR_Vk
http://www.youtube.com/user/laberintosingeniosos#p/u/30/lfuTRBW13EY
😉