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Very good version indeed. BUT sorry, between us, there is something missing from this version.

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I also felt this way when I played the concierto with a piano for my classical guitar diploma concert more than 15 years ago.

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ORIGINAL: Ricardo

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Very good version indeed. BUT sorry, between us, there is something missing from this version.

It is definitely an improvement in terms of typical timing of this thing. You don't have those soft entries of the strings, it is all a percussive attack that needs to be together so not as much room for rubato. However, the guy still slows down in the typical spots...and the tempo of the first and third are two slow for the dance feel (people think Paco's version is fast to show off his scales, but the scales are slow for him. It is the strumming that needs to feel right, and a little too slow it feels awkward). I do like the idea of the guitar trio, perhaps they could have traded "lead" parts rather than relegate the string and horn parts to the other two.

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I also felt this way when I played the concierto with a piano for my classical guitar diploma concert more than 15 years ago.

Sounds like your story is very similar to mine. My piano player was very good rhythmically and I struggled to keep up with him...but we were also using Paco's version. I remember doing the entire thing with a pick so we had it together at speed. But finger style was new to me and I screwed up nicely for the concerto competion but the jury thing for my grade went very well.

I have to admit though, my favorite classical guitarist was Williams and I was frankly disappointed at how much he simplified (dumbed down) the harder parts of the concerto. I mean considering how good he is compared to others I thought it was like he really did not care about this piece. It was almost comical to me, things like moving that high chord down an octave and etc.