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Not John Williams then? Julian Bream (well he's a bit past it, alright), but Jose Romero's still going as well.

 

I recently went to see a guy called Graham Antony Devine play - he teaches at Trinity college of music and has had several CDs, including a couple on Naxos - really great guitarist, but I LOVE it when I see professionals slip up on occasion, or hear a buzz. It makes me feel all good about my own playing. Not that he did it often - more often than not he corrected the tuning as he was playing - on pauses or long chords.

 

I went to see some other guy (a younger professional fresh out of Royal College, won a couple of competitions abroad) - and was really struck, especially the pieces that he played that I had also played - it made me think "I could do this just as well or even better"!

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I suppose you could, but there's a lot of competition out there. THere are lots of realatively unheard of guitarists out there, you hear a lot of them on the Naxos label - Jeffery Mc'Fadden is a good one, look out for his Cd on Naxos, is has the best version of valses poeticos I've heard, and Asencio's Collectici Intim, which is a great piece.

John Williams said that when he was visiting China, the standard of guitarists in some of the music schools there was unbelievable.

As for who's the best - there is no best, it's just personal opinion. I cetainly dont' like Bream, he plucks the strings too hard and plays too near the bridge the whole time producing a very sharp tone. Not to my taste.

Civillisation will not attain perfection until the last stone, from the last church, falls on the last priest.

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I kinda like it when I can hear some subtle buzz here and there or maybe a scratch on the string while changing chords. I feel it adds a bit of "organic feel" to the music. Music for me is one thing where perfection in performance isn't always welcome, much less necessary. But that's just my opinion... MIDIs are like that, perfect but DULL DULL DULL.

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