Julian Bream

Name: The Classical Guitar Collection
ISBN: 9780571591763

Musician

1933-07-15

Books by Julian Bream

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Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.
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Quite often, I have to work hard to improve my technical capacity, if you will, before the demands of a new work come within reach. And I find that very stimulating.
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There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas and passion of a late Beethoven string quartet, or for that matter the beautiful mellifluous poetry of a Chopin Ballade.
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I much rather coach a string quartet in an interpretation of Haydn or Beethoven than to teach the guitar.
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The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.
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What do I think of digital recording? Well, it's all right. But those old thorn needles, now, that was a sound.
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In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to paint a picture of me. I agreed to do it, because I'm not unused to sitting for portraits: my father was a commercial artist and I used to model for him.
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