Marcos Araújo, guitar
The audio quality isn't as good as some of the other recordings but he plays the whole thing and the performance is very, very good. It's clear that Bogdanović has absorbed and assimilated a large range of influences, the music that comes out being all his own. If his theoretical writings weren't o friggin' expensive I'd certainly be reading them. They sound fascinating, especially his book about counterpoint, a practical instead of a merely theoretical exercise. But at $70 US I'm going to have to pass.
He is certainly an important living composer. We not only have those but we have quite a number of them around these days.
Update: Simps, in a world where little is certain, you can be counted on to say something stupid about music that goes over your head, as so much of it does. I'm sure he'd probably not be too worried about your dismissal of his music, after a long career of having the respect of his colleagues in composition and a large number of performances and recordings by some of the best guitarists in the world. I think he can do without the good words of a washed-up pop music repeater of the common dumb-whizz who - as can be seen by his alleged description of it - didn't even bother listening to the piece.
Wow. A guy "fusing classical, jazz and ethnic music" on the guitar?
ReplyDeleteYou can hear that trite new age crapola at every hair salon in the first world. And he's your important composer, Sparky?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I notice you were too chickenshit to actually post that accurate description. Typical.
ReplyDeleteYou imagine that because it takes no courage to allow you to make a fool of yourself, only a willingness to bring down the tone in doing so. I'm not ashamed to stoop, only there's no need to do it every time you prove you're a putz.
DeleteYou didn't listen to the Sonata - it's long, well, longer than your attention span - and it took more than your limited capacity to hear it. You have some of the most superficial ears of anyone I've ever encountered who managed to make money out of even the alleged music you wrote about.
Longer than PARSIFAL, and with fewer laughs, as they say.
ReplyDeleteBTW, it's a perfectly respectable bit of craftsmanship -- I only made fun of it to bait you. Kudos for taking it.
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