Trond Bengtson's Comments

Hi Trond, nice to see you here to!

ok Trond,
i ´m going to post here the original ms and my version (i have to write it out completely first ;-)) ). i estimate this chaconne to one of the best of it´s genre.
there are a lot of possibilities of improvization the embellishments...
greatings - Siegfried

Hi Trond, nice playing, nice guitar, and interesting visuals there. What program do use for your videos? Is that one where you can add the audio to the visual?

I love your interpretation of Fantasia I by Luys Milan - it's one of my favourite pieces and you really capture the "fantasia" feel to it with a powerful improvisational rhythm. In other words - it was great! ;).

What instrument was it played on?
Do you know what instrument it was intended for?

Juan Pira's discussion on finding scores has created a nice improvement to our Ning group. There is now a new menu tab, a listing of scores, and links to the various member pages where the scores can be found. For the time being I will be maintaining the the score list. I see that you have removed some of your new editions. Let me know if you have any suggestions/corrections for improving the list.

Yes, all your videos.

I've now put the correct version of the chaconne online.

Hej Trond, I've fixed the mistake in the Chaconne and sent it to Rob. Now the piece is even more beautiful.

Thank you Rob, they look nice in Fronimo. Timo has done a fine job, there,s one mistake in the Chaconne. In bar 18 all the letters are placed one line too low.
Did you really mean all my videos, it's 29 in all.

Trond, I've put all your videos on the Vimeo francesco channel. And I've also uploaded Timo's typesetting of your baroque guitar arrangements onto my scores page: www.rmguitar.info/scores.htm

On a good day I might video the terantela. Great fun.

Hej Trond.
As Rob wrote to you,I tabulated your arrangement of Muzette with Fronimo. I will also tabulate the other pieces you sent to him. Is it ok if we put them in Rob's site?
TImo

Thanks, Trond, for the pdf arrangements. Timo has already intabulated your muzette into Fronimo, so I will add to that in time.

Thanks Trond. Arde is a beautiful piece. I first heard old Julian Bream play it many, many years ago.

Pavanas: I have thought for many years that there is still a modern classical guitar hangover with that piece - the ''slow and stately'' sarabande-type approach, which is really an English and French invention. The Spanish pavanas has always struck me as being faster - think of Luys Milan's pavans: not at all slow. I think Sanz inherited that aesthetic. I've just tried to play it slow, but it just doesn't seem to work, for me at least. I know most people are disturbed by the speed I take it, but thank God we don't all play the same way. What a boring world that would be!

Strumming is obviously important in the baroque guitar performance practice, maybe even the cornerstone to the whole repertoire, so it would be good if we could all practice it as much as we practice the solo pieces. I have sympathy with you - some of these strums are very difficult to do effortlessly, anything less sounds completely wrong. I have two or three strumming techniques which I do all the time, but there are many I find difficult if not impossible. I used to play with Steve Player, who I think is the best rhythm guitarist I've ever heard. He tried to slow down what he was doing so that I could copy, but I just couldn't get it. On the other hand, not literally, he couldn't do some of the things I was doing. So, we've all got something to offer. Keep recording those videos!

BTW, your 'arrangement' of the de Visee Muzette is going straight into my repertoire. Many thanks for posting it! If you want, I could type it out with Fronimo and put the pdf on my website?

Tusen tack, Trond.
I din't know that de Visée made a guitar version of it. BTW, I did the same kind of re tabulation project to quite a bunch of anonymous French guitar pieces. They are in Rob's site.
Har det bra,
Timo

Hej igen Trond, I enjoyed very much your arrangement of de Visée's Muzette. Would you be so kind and give me your arrangement. This piece has been one of my alltime favourites over 20 years. I've been playing it with theorbo, baroque lute and 10c lute, and it would be nice to play it with guitar too. Your arrangement suits very well to the guitar. Timo

I'll try to scan and send them soon. Rob's site is really a treasure and I will look at your pieces this evening.