David russell guitar video
Video by David Russell and Maria Jesus Rodriguez Strings: D'Addario Normal Tension Pro-Arté Dynacore Technical Assistance Matthew Washburn....
David Russell performs Air Varié No.1, Op.21 by Giulio Regondi (1822-1872) on classical guitar in San Martín.
Frómista, Spain.
THE BLUE MADELEINE (dedicated to David Russell), by Giacomo Susani · Hope Bach BWV Andante.
This comes via the Omni Foundation series and their Youtube channel. Beautiful performance as always from Russell with excellent pacing and phrasing throughout. Below is an excerpt from these great liner notes by Colin Cooper via this Naxos album:
Giulio Regondi had a disturbed early life.
His German mother seems to have vanished early in his childhood, and it was his Italian father (or stepfather, by some accounts) who brought him up and, a guitarist himself, presumably gave him his first lessons on the guitar.
Teaching, however, gave way to exploitation, and when this manipulator disappeared with the young prodigy’s earnings, Giulio had a hard time of it. The help of friends and his own resilience ensured survival, though we shall never know how far this early trauma contributed to his untimely death at the age of fifty from a painful cancer.
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