World Class Guitarists in Germany Right Now!

Originally posted by Darth Sponge
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if you are anywhere in the vacinity of these shows, go. I used to live in Mexico and saw Miguel de Hoyos play many many times and he's one of the best in the world. He can play Rachmaninov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" on guitar, note for note plus massively impressive improve (his version is better than R ...[text shortened]... satisfied, I'll refund your ticket price.

and anyone who goes- let me know what you think.

You should listen to a couple of guitarists from about 50 years ago,
one died in a plane crash but they were both touring masters and
ran into one another on tour when they both played the same venue,
they fell in love and got married. They are the best duo's absolutely
from their time period and I only heard one duo better, two brothers
from Brazil, I wish I had written down their names, they were truly
awesome. I heard them from a Arentinian Jew who made Aliah in
Jerusalem where I met him doling out cleanroom gowns at Intel.
He was a great guitarist himself but he played me a couple of cuts
from the brazilian brothers and they were simply the best I ever heard.
The duo from the 50's I told you about were Ida Presti and
Alexander LaGoya. They did several albums I think on the Mercury
label, if you love guitar and it sounds like you do, try to find some
re-issues on cd. I played them a lot when I was in the air force in
the mid 60's. What amazed me about them was, since the vinyl was
in stereo, I could hear one in each ear of my headphones and
tried to imagine, a married couple man and wife, maybe the man
being a bit more dominant or something. Try as I might, the swooping
dynamics and turn of phrases was like two people being controlled by
one mind. I cannot tell to this day which of the two I was listening to.
One would do this amazing run, then the other would answer and the
absolute joy they obviously felt in the music and each other came
across so clear it was like they were in the room with me sharing
lovers secrets. If you love classic guitar you probably know of John
Williams and Julian Bream. They obviously heard the original Presti
and LaGoya recordings, maybe even heard them live, but you probably
know both Bream and Williams were two of Andre Segovia's star
pupils, so you know they are some of the worlds best at least in
the world of classical guitar. Well they made a record, couple of them
I think, called Julian and John and it suprised the snot out of me,
they had duplicated at least half of the Presti-LaGoya recordings.
The only thing missing was, they were not man and wife, having
their own wifes and families and only being good friends.
They came off, in spite of them each being world class in his own right,
too technical, technically perfect but lacking some of the soul and
intertwining of the original Presti-Lagoya tapes.
When you listen to them with headphones, you can tell, Ah, this guy
on the left is clearly Julian and the other ear, John.
With Presti-Lagoya, I would defy anyone not present at the recording
session or having seen them live and know who is normally on the
left and who is on the right, I defy anyone to correctly pick out which
was which. They were that good. They were better than just good.
They were like gods of guitar duo's the likes of which wasn't seen
for 40 years. Thats the honest truth as I saw it. You take a bunch
like the Los Angeles guitar Quartet, they play with fire and all that
but not even close to the obvious interaction, swapping of lead and
backups that Ida Presti and Alexander LaGoya did around 1960 or
thereabouts. I hope to have pricked your curiosity and hope you find
their recordings to see what I meant.