Classical Guitar Recital | Narciso YEPES (1979) | 10 String Guitar | ten string guitar music

 

 

Classical Guitar Recital | Narciso YEPES (1979) | 10 String Guitar | ten string guitar music

       

      

About the 10-string guitar as designed by Yepes: http://www.tenstringguitar.INFO

Standard

tuning of the modern ten-string guitar (afinación estándar de la guitarra 10 cuerdas):

7=C2 [lowest string / la más baja]
8=A#2 / Bb2
9=G#2 / Ab2
10=F#2 / Gb2

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The legendary Narciso Yepes performs an 80 minute solo recital, plus 25 minutes of encores, on the ten-string guitar of his own conception, at the Teatro Real de Madrid, in 1979. This is without electronic amplification of the guitar, as Yepes always insisted, but with his improved sitting position and revolutionary right hand technique, which, together with his 10-string guitar's sympathetic resonance, optimize tone quality and projection. (The microphone seen is for the video's audio recording only, not for amplification.) As one reviewer wrote after a 1982 review of Narciso Yepes performing at Carnegie Hall:

'Guitar concerts in Carnegie Hall can be a frustrating affair. Narciso Yepes brought his 10-string invention there last Thursday, and suddenly it was not a problem hearing that instrument in that space.
'His guitar fills the hall with sound. The musician who plucks it is one of the finest in the world today. The second half of the program was devoted entirely to 20th-century works, an intriguing survey of music - for an apparently limited instrument - that was at once engrossing yet challenging. Of greatest interest were Eduardo Sainz de la Maza's ''Laberinto,'' with its jazzy undercurrent, and Leonardo Balada's supremely virtuosic, exciting ''Analogias.''
'Mr. Yepes, who appears to be not much larger than his oversize instrument, is a selfless musician, putting the music before his personality in what could serve as the ideal of any performing artist but so rarely is. One left his recital stimulated and elated, with nary a thought as to the potential limitations of the instrument, dynamically or musically.'

RECITAL PROGRAMME:

KUEHNEL (transcr. Yepes): Suite for 11-course Baroque Lute - 00:00

-Allemande 00:00
-Courante 03:38
-Sarabande 05:00
-Menuet 07:28
-Gigue 09:20

BACH (transcr. Yepes): Sarabande & Double in B minor BWV 1002 - 11:43

-Sarabande 11:43
-Double 15:26

BACH (transcr. Yepes/Enesco): Chaconne in D minor - 18:46

SOR (rev. Yepes): Fantasie Villageoise, op. 52 - 33:38

SOR (rev. Yepes): Variations sur "Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre", op. 28 - 42:37

PERIS: Elegia para Gisela (for 10-string guitar) - 48:29

KUCERA: Diary (Homage to Che Guevara) - 55:50

-Day of Love 55:50
-Day of Hate 58:20
-Day of Decision 01:00:27
-Day of Battle 01:02:25
-Day of Death 01:04:25

BROUWER: Tarantos (written for Narciso Yepes) - 01:08:41

VILLA-LOBOS: Etudes - 1:13:14

-Etude no. 1 - 1:13:14
-Etude no. 11 - 1:14:56
-Etude no. 12 - 1:18:32

...ENCORES:

BACARISSE (rev. Yepes): Passepied - 1:23:33

ANONYMOUS (arr. Yepes): 11th century Irish March (Brian Boru's March) - 1:27:42

TARREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - 1:33:20

GALILEI (transcr. Yepes): Saltarello - 1:38:35

RUIZ-PIPO: Danza - 1:42:02

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