Electric is produced by Buddy Miller and recorded in his home studio, and it has a spontaneous feel to it that matches his live performance. In February Richard Thompson released a new CD, Electric, and at Antone’s during SXSW, he performed many of the songs from this album.
He played songs like 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Dimming Of The Day, Tear-Stained Letter and Turning Of The Tide at that concert, al of them high up on my top Richard Thompson list. I saw the band in 1995, and I still remember that concert as one of the best I have seen. The band that time consisted of Danny Thompson on bass, drummer Dave Mattacks and acoustic guitarist Pete Zorn, and was a tight and at the same time virtuoso band. His Richard Thompson Band from the mid 90’s is maybe his most solid one so far. After this, Richard Thompson has played solo, with or without a band. At the same time they divorced, but continued to play together for a while. Their career slowly evolved, but it was the LP Shoot Out The Lights from 1981 that really relaunched it. His first CDs weren’t best sellers, but this changed a bit when he started a musical and personal relationship with singer Linda Peters, soon to become Linda Thompson. He wanted to do more songwriting and felt it was easier to do this on his own. He started his career in the British acoustic folk group Fairport Convention, but quit in 1970 to go solo. It is not that he plays everything very fast or loud, but more that his style is so personally unique and with influences from an eclectic range of sources. 30 concerto with the original orchestration and no cuts Early Spanish and Latin American music on Sono Luminus.Richard Thompson has been named one of the best guitarists in the music world, and also the one with the most characteristic sound. But here are some highlights: Complete quintets of Luigi Boccherini, Bardenklange of Mertz & Paganin & Giuliani Sonatas on Harmonia Mundi Fours CDs of music by Mauro Giuliani including the only recording of Giuliani's Op.
Too many to list since I am featured on over 30 commercial CDs as a soloist or principal performer on Harmonia Mundi, Koch, Naxos, Dorian/Sono Luminus, and Stradivarius. The Secular Monodies from "Il Libro Primo (1618)" by Francesca Caccini (Indiana University Press) Essential Issues in Performance Practices of the Classical Guitar Cambridge University Press) Complete Studies of Fernando Sor (Editions Chantarelle), What recordings can we hear you on? Virtuoso Sonatas by Paganini and Giuliani with violinist Monica Huggett and Stephanie Chase Curiose Invenzioni (Music of Biagio Marini) with ensemble Galatea Kingdoms of Castile (Grammy-nominated CD with El Mundo). What are your most important collaborations? Rome, 1600: the first Jubilee year after the Protestant Reformation which gave us Le nuove musiche. From a music history perspective, what year and city are most important to you? Bach, Francesco Canova da Milano, and the third one is a tie: Fernando Sor/Mauro Giuliani. (I don't sleep much.) If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be? I try to get at least two hours of practice in a day, but, in addition, I also try read and rehearse a couple of hours a day. I could easily have been a chef (I love to cook), lawyer, stock broker (for the adrenaline rush), or meteorologist. If you weren't a musician or teacher, what do you think you would be doing now? In 1982, I won a competition, played numerous times for Andres Segovia, and was appointed Professor of Music at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. “Is there life after school?” What was the defining moment when you decided to pursue music as a career? I have two: 1) “Using the rhetoric of tolerance we have created an incredibly intolerant environment.” 2) “Those who are unaware of history are condemned to repeat it.” What question do you wish students would ask sooner rather than later? What is a favorite quote that you repeatedly tell students? Jerry Willard, Oscar Ghiglia, and Albert Fuller. Socio-economic political theory, skiing, Shakespeare, Ariosto, and Cervantes. What are you passionate about outside of music? Pepper (Beatles), Le Sacre du Printemps (Bernstein/NY Philharmonic), Brahms Third Symphony (Vienna Philharmonic), Bach Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Rachel Podger), In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson), The Bronx Blues Sessions (Dion), Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan), Music of Josquin (Hilliard Ensemble), and Bach Orchestral Suites (Leonhardt). Lindenhurst, NY What is your favorite recording?Ĭan't list just one: Revolver & Sgt.
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