Tom Poore

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Thanks for this work, helps a lot in going to ones I wanted to hear! thank you,

I totally agree.

People love him or hate him...

He falls off the cliff way too often...

I don't feel that way : study n2for instance sounds awefully shoddy, like too many other passages. IMO no comparison with the greatests ever like Segovia or Bream

@@williamotule Turibio Santos is my favorite player performing Villa Lobos

@@alonsoperez3637 yes sorry I didn't mean to sound mean

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@Juelz Baylor instablaster :)

Hella difficult to balance the voices

hottiestub thank you so much for this!!! Amen! Ps. He just needs a different guitar . Ramirez Guitars from Spain!

A risk as you call it, implies that there is a chance it works out very well. I don't think that is the case here. I rather speak of predictions instead of risks, because as soon as speed is asked in almost 100% of the cases mr Fisk makes terrible mistakes from an esthetically point of view as well as from the perspective of the score. And furthermore the composer himself plays it much more from the heart, but that is my opinion of course.

Sounds like me trying to tune my guitar and I'm lvl -100 hahahaha

Butthurt one, don't get yourself worried about negative comments, be graceful and accept it period, its worst if you get butthurt about it.

Have you seen his interpretation of the the Brouwer etudes ? It’s at the end of a Leo Brouwer tribute concert on here ? They are more of the an impoverished version of the ‘etudes simples’ they have to be seen and heard to be believed.

¿Tanto así?

Vendría bien que escucharas a Álvaro Pierri

Because there is no too much thinking brains on earth...

It’s in the score

I suppose you mean "bashing" or "trolling". There is, unfortunately, little actual criticism in the sense of analysis or an examination of the performance. As I stated below in an older comment, if we had witnessed this performance LIVE, it would have been a whirwind, as the audience applause at the end demonstrates. The problem is an excess of pejoratives or superlatives (= mere opinions) and no real thinking beyond that box...or jail cell of the mind.

Why are you upset about other people critiquing a performance? It's what people do on KZfaq. Also I quite like the old saying 'It doesn't take a baker to know the bread is stale.'

Agreed. Thank goodness there was a KZfaq posting of Julian Bream playing the same 12 Etudes. Had to listen to that after listening to Eliot Fisk. Julian Bream did play a concert of Villalobos pieces and his recording of the concerto is excellent. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lcd5fqqj0a3LYps.html

Not enough technique ?? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9-gi7eCrpO0l5c.html

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Haha..love it. First check out on youtube...Eliot Fisk plays some Scarlatti sonatas: Sonata In G Major K146; Sonata in A Major; Sonata in E Major K380. You will have to show me somebody on youtube doing a better job...you won't find them I promise you. Look at Elliot Fisks career and the amount of composers writing for him..there is good reason for this. 1. his sound has more depth than modern players. 2. his technical ability on the instrument. 3. his outstanding knowledge of harmony and musicianship in general. 4. the emotional content in his delivery..Bruce Lee...EMOTIONAL CONTENT not mechanical. 5. willing to take risks = a performance that is not too dry and reserved or stiff or flat and uninteresting. So I challenge you to find me somebody with all these attributes. Cheers and good luck!

Exactement dit monsieur, je pense absolument le même. Ce qui j’aime le moins sur son interprétation est le ton, parce que ce ressemble à banjo plus que à guitar à mon avis.

@@unwrought9757 Ha,ha,ha,ha,,,,,,and chase train.

Mark, prova a ragionare sugli argomenti, sulle affermazioni e sui clamorosi errori di Fisk, assolutamente inascoltabile, e non sulla grammatica e sulla sintassi. Tu sei come quello al quale indicando col dito una stella dicendo "guarda" , lui guarda il dito. Bravo furbo, parlare con te è uno spasso. Peccato che mentre scrivo in sottofondo Fisk fa un casino! Comunque Mark se non sai dove andate chiedi, e ti ci mando io.

gli errori sono evidenti. Sarebbe sufficiente saper leggere la musica, lo spartito, Vale per Fisk come per Mark

Could you get any more bitchy?

I understand your comment and understand this criticism (actually, quite common regarding Fisk). I also understand that you probably (as all of us do) envision an ideal sound, ideal performance and when you see it, it´s wonderful. Fisk is essentially an Dyonesian player, whereas Manuel is more of the Apollonian: one is pure emphasis, while the other is stately, understated. I think we need to adjust our ears to the different kinds of pathos each artist conveys: the "better than", "worst than" is just opinions, not actual analysis of what the performer´s trying to do. Fisk attempts these grandiose gestures, the flamboyant, the histrionic: Manuel is his opposite. Isn´t that great that the ice cream comes in different flavors? The more you can appreciate, the more you´ll like the variety of ice cream. I enjoyed this very much. It was a very organic performance of the 12 as 1 whole piece. There is great musicality here: Eliot at times may not realize his own energy level and what´s being conveyed: he may not at times realize his performance is "yelling" or even "screaming" because there´s such a connection between him and the music (on an internal level), that he may not realize he´s twanging here, sounding harsh there. Yes, this is the Dyonesian: it´s almost as if he´s in a trance and oblivious to the impression he´s causing on other. I think that´s great: maybe not all the time, but here something has been said. One gets that sense of overflowing energy here. This live (judging from the applause) would give us a totally different impression of what we´re seeing. But certainly, not anywhere near as precise as Barrueco´s or Fábio Zanon; the tempos are stretched to the outer limits, the dynamics exploding. IMO, the strings should have bust; the neck gone flying off and the whole soundboard imploded... One could say sloppy (actually, look at Etude 2 - the least musically interesting and he hardly flubs - there´s no way for that total precision with this approach. He´s just putting too much energy into it: that may put off some people: there are mistakes, sure, but notice how many notes are played and how many are really atrocious mistakes? With the note-perfect player, the regularity may eventually come to bore you; here, I guarantee, no one was bored, despite the flubs here and there. Sure: no silky tone of David Russell here, but there´s something here that I pick up and I enjoy it. A very human quality. Of a different sort of human quality in the performances of Russell or Barrueco. A different personality, and given the fact that so many people seemed cloned today, we should delight when personality, individuality appear: something that doesn´t belong to the herd or tribe. There should be more attempt to understand what each performer is trying to do rather than just revealing our taste (we know what we like best, but that should not stop us from trying to understand why we don´t care for something else). Looking for the reasons for our interest, or lack thereof (I think that was Henry James´ - the novelist - definition of criticism). I´ve seen a lot of Fisk bashing (where there are angels, there will be trolls): that´s not your case, yours is a valid observation, but also a preference of taste. There are many modes of being, all valid and revealing of the diversity of humankind. Fisk has something that I admire; so does Barrueco, so does Fábio Zanon, so does Narciso Yepes (another maligned player). But the fact that such a performance can generate such extremes of opinion means that (as Oscar WIlde would have it), that this art is alive and vital. Thank you for your comment. Best

Hello. It's understandable for a non guitarist to express hatred for the classical guitar. I used to hate it too, long time ago. But now it's my life. How is it possible? From my own experience i guarentee you that you actually have no idea what classical guitar is at all. Because you haven't heard the essential masters: Andres Segovia, Narciso Yepes and Julian Bream. These three showed me what the classical guitar is really all about: an extremely difficult instrument from a technical point of view which brings to the world the most wonderful musical sounds, if its played well, as they did. I play the guitar and yes, it's a very treacherous and unstable instrument. But to be honest, once i heard those three masters i think it's a nonsense and impossible for me to try to play another instrument which is not the classical guitar. I reccomend you to listen to the old school, especially those three i mentioned. Those were the real guitarists for me. I have some Segovia and Yepes in my channel, in my favourites and uploads. Listen to those and i guarentee you that you will never ever say that you hate the classical guitar, but actually the absolute opposite. hahah

Believe me, ignorance is a terrible thing. You are suffering from it. Listen to what i've told you and you will be cured. Start from this for example: /watch?v=9y2KTvSPwZY OR/AND /watch?v=b5jNPfa7x6Y If you are a real music lover you will find your mecca there. LOL

"His guitar playing just irritates me so much I hate the classical guitar." Rather than detesting the instrument because you have the same opinion of Fisk that any knowledgeable listener has, may I suggest cruising KZfaq for far-less-detestable videos of the second etude by players who actually play the notes instead of missing about half of them. I quickly turned up Xingye Li, Liying Zhu, Tal Hurwitz, Matt Palmer (who at least shows that he can play very fast and, unlike Fisk, actually play the notes), and of course, Bream.

goodcyrus Says who ?

Many repetitions?? That must be the reason they are called Etudes... Got it??

Not the biggest Fisk fan, and I know this comment is 3 years old, but I have to correct you that the repetitions are not from Villa Lobos’s original manuscript. They are a change made by Segovia - one of many controversial ones.