October 16, 2006 "Baroque Music/Interviews: David Russell, Richard Savino"
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This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features Baroque music and interviews with David Russell and Richard Savino.

The program begins with the "Suite in d" of Robert de Visee, from a rare concert recording of Leo Brouwer from 1978.

In this interview/studio performance, the great Scottish guitarist David Russell speaks about Baroque ornamentation. He demonstrates two different types of trills: (two-string and one-string), and illustrates why two-string trills are especially well-suited in the performance of Baroque keyboard music.

Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750) composed over 600 pieces of music for solo lute, and chamber works. Only the lute part survives from his Concerto in Bb. Richard Stone and has used the surviving lute part to reconstruct how the other parts of the concerto might have sounded.

Period instrument specialist Richard Savino discusses how a change in musical fashon at the court of Philip V caused Spanish baroque guitarist Santiago de Murcia (1685-1732) to leave Madrid, and seek employment in the New World- most likely Mexico. Savino explains how wealth from the Spanish silver trade in Central and South America led to growth of a transplanted European culture that was far more musically sophisticated than that of the early American colonies of the same time. Savino performs Murcia's Passacaille in D, from his Koch Recording.

The program concludes with Vivaldi's Lute Concerto in D, RV93, performed on guitar by Christopher Parkening and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, directed by Iona Brown.

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Program ID# 06-D65-00042
Title: Baroque Music/Interviews: David Russell, Richard Savino
Total length: 57:23

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to.."
Out Cue: MUSIC IN "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"
Program Length: 57:23

INTRODUCTION:

Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude
Los Romeros (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Visee: Suite in d minor
Leo Brouwer, guitar
(live recording, Frame Records 9721)

Interview David Russell:
"I've done lots of Scarlatti and things, and Vivaldi, and all that sort of stuff that's come from the keyboard. And it sounds better, normally, to do the trill on two strings ... ... the heightened moment which is released onto the D."

Handel: Keyboard Suite No. 7:Overture
David Russell, guitar
Passacaglia
(GHA 126-006)

Weiss, arr. Stone:
Concerto a Cinque Richard Stone, baroque lute
Tempesta di Mare
(live recording)

Interview Richard Savino:
"Murcia is a very interesting figure in the history of Spanish music ... ... but there is nowhere near the degree of sophistication one finds in Latin America, South America."

Murcia: Passacaille in D
Richard Savino, baroque guitar
(Koch 7445)

Vivaldi: Concerto in D
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Acad. St. Martin in-the-Fields
Iona Brown, dir.
(EMI 55052)

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