

Some of the exercises are so accurately aimed at weaknesses that my brain hurts too but I can already notice an improvement in accuracy and control in my playing, which is very rewarding as I needed some sort of push towards real progress. We have one of the best specialist selections of music for the classical guitar anywhere, with thousands of stock titles and a committed, knowledgeable team.

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Replaced the song-like, full sound of the apoyando touch with the full fingertip and masters like Pujol were forgotten.Įxpertly presented by Frank Bungarten, he proves himself the perfect advocate of this repertoire. In his prescriptions of the fingerings, indicating on which string a note is to be played (sometimes it is only a single string), and one piece is to be performed only with the left hand, which means entirely without plucking by the right hand.Īfter Pujols death in 1980 most guitarists turned more toward the piano or the harpsichord the tirando with the nail Tonal differentiation plays a substantial role: he is precise In his opinion such a path is necessary while working toward the goal of the right music. This allows the music to exactly correspond to the meticulousness with which Pujol formed his miniatures.įor in his manual Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra, Pujol indicates a systematic path leading to the perfection of playing technique on the guitar. Performed on a six-string guitar (spruce/satinwood) fashioned after Antonio de Torres 1883 by guitar maker Gary Southwell (2018), this instrument was designed especially for this recording.

Nobody before him (and hardly anybody after him) had (or has) occupied himself so intensively with the tonal fine points of guitar playing as the Tárrega pupil Pujol, to whom Frank Bungarten pays homage and tribute on his latest album. Virtuoso, composer, educator, music researcher many talents were united in the person of Emilio Pujol.
