Since this has ventured into the realm of early guitar, I'm attaching the relevant address as well:
At 03:03 AM 4/6/2005, you wrote: >Didn't JW also record on a period guitar? I think I have a record when he >plays concerts for guitar and orchestra on a period guitar (and also saw >this performance live). Yes, I should not have said that John Williams makes "no effort" at period performance when the truth is he makes _almost_ no effort. His recorded period-instrument output to date, as far as I'm aware, has been one half of one CD worth. I do like the tasty recording he did of Giuliani's first concerto on that CD: un-truncated, which is rare (even Williams' earlier recordings of the Giuliani were of the truncated edition). I like it very much...although I prefer Savino's on Koch. I think the arrangement of Schubert's arpeggione sonata for modern guitar and strings, also on the Williams CD, was sadly misguided. Yes, arpeggione is tuned like the modern guitar, but bowed tone color is nothing like plucked, fretted tone color. The sonorities of accompaniment and soloist were functionally reversed from their original conception in this arrangement, and I don't think it really works. It sounds somehow "mushy." In arrangements of the Schubert, I think guitar in the accompaniment role to cello (e.g., by guitarist Dimitri Illarionov) or violin (e.g., by guitarist Göran Söllscher) as soloist sounds better. Still, in general, I do like John Williams' work. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
