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In Portrait
OA0931/£27.95This portrait celebrates the extraordinary quest of
Andrés Segovia, the Andalusian par excellence who, in his childhood, fell
in love with the sounds of the Spanish guitar and within 20 years had
elevated it from the status of a folk instrument to the highest levels of
the international concert platform. His achievement is among the marvels
of Western music.
The two very different Christopher Nupen films on this DVD are
Segovia at Los Olivos, shot in Segovia’s new home on the
Costa del Sol in Andalucia in 1967, when he was 75, and thought by Segovia
to be the best thing he ever did for television, and the prize-winning
Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar, filmed
in Granada and the Palaces of the Alhambra in 1976 when the Grand Master
was 84.
Music by Albeniz, Bach, Scarlatti, Castelnuovo-Tedesco,
Granados, Sor, Rameau, Tarrega, Torroba etc.
Duration: 196 minutes |
