Saturday, January 16, 2016

Napoléon Coste - La Source du Lyson



La Source du Lyson - The headwaters of the Lyson river



Enrica Savigni, guitar

Score 

The guitar player is, clearly, one of those excellent musicians you are likely to have never heard of before, superior to many of the bigger names for some reason or other.  She is a real virtuoso.

The guitar is interesting, a real romantic style guitar with the typical romantic style sound but made by the firm of Hijos de Gonzalez in Madrid in 1868, far later than I'd thought of guitar sound in those terms, but, then, Coste and his circle were still around and it's certainly the sound they would have expected, they played instruments either made earlier in the century or made by the same firms.  The modern, "Spanish style" guitar with its quite different sound was just beginning to gain the upper hand.

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