The modern guitar is a Romantic instrument, it developed in the 19th century, so another question is how to approach the music, Romantic or Historically Informed? Yuri tries to stay away from over romanticising the music, yet he also wants to avoid fugues that are strict and emotionless. How many extra notes he adds very much depends on the music, varying from work to work and even from movement to movement, but always asking what would Bach do? But a guitarist can play more notes simultaneously than a violinist can, so the question is, how much of the implied harmony to fill in? Yuri comments that some purists play Bach's original violin part on the guitar, adding nothing but he feels that there is room for the imagination to think what Bach might do, though he wants to add less of himself and to let the music speak for himself. When playing individual sonatas, guitarists sometimes alter the keys, but as soon as Yuri decided he was going to record all three he realised he needed to keep the key relationships.īach writes polyphonically for his solo violin, implying harmony and multiple voices by using double-stopping and string crossing. One of the important things is that Barrueco keeps the original keys. Yuri did not have enough to say to do his own transcriptions, though he made small changes to Barrueco's transcriptions. Yuri has transcribed Bach's Partitas for unaccompanied violin for guitar, but he found that his teacher's transcriptions of the sonatas were perfect. Besides which, like many musicians, Yuri finds himself constantly returning to Bach's music and Yuri plays the guitar, so the question is, why not? And since Andres Segovia, it has become normal to play Bach on the instrument. My first question was why play Bach on the guitar at all? For Yuri, Bach is always valid and appropriate, and the guitar is the most popular instrument in the world.
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