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For my first non-introductory post to the forum, I want to ask if anyone out there knows of video and/or audio recordings of famous flamenco guitarists playing classical pieces, and vice versa. There is a beautiful Farruca duet with John Williams and Paco Pena, but that's all I've really been able to find, with the exception of Paco de Lucia's performances of Aranjuez, and Grisha tooling around at GSI on a Reyes.
What I'm really itching to hear is Sabicas playing Heitor Villa-Lobos's Prelude No. 5. That's a VERY specific request, but really I'm just looking for anything along those lines. David Russell playing Bulerias. Paco Pena playing Capricho Arabe. Julian Bream playing Solea. Tomatito playing Barrios Mangore. You catch my drift.
Don't worry about letting me down if this thread doesn't turn up with any results. I have front row tickets to see PDL in DC in April, so I plan on yelling out requests. Hey Paco! How about some Paganini? Scarlatti? Mangore?
For those who haven't seen the John Williams/Paco Pena duet:
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RE: Sabicas playing Heitor Villa-Lobos! (in reply to FlamencoEgipcio)
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I want to ask if anyone out there knows of video and/or audio recordings of famous flamenco guitarists playing classical pieces, and vice versa.
On Sabicas Vol. 2 (Elektra EKL 121), he played:
La Boda de Luis Alonso (Jiménez) Fantasía Inca (Martínez Oyanguren) La Malagueña (Lecuona) Czardas (Monti) Gran Jota (Tárrega) Capriccio Espagnol (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Vols. 1–2 were reissued on a CD called La Guitarra Flamenca, but it seems to have been deleted.
La Malagueña at least is on YouTube.
The Peña/Williams duet is the farruca from Sabicas and Escudero’s Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars, recently reissued as a twofer with Fantastic Guitars.
Personally, I find classical musicians playing Flamenco pretty painful to watch.
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