Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar - Music film, 1976

Watch also “Segovia at Los Olivos“: Subscribe to the channel for more content: Buy the DVD here: Filmmaker Christopher Nupen about the film: “The title, “Andrés Segovia: The Song of Guitar“, comes from a short poem by the Spanish poet, Eugenio d’Ors, “La Canción de la Guitarra“, which Segovia recites in the film. “La canción del piano - es un discurso - la canción del ’cello - es una elegía - la canción de la guitarra - es una canción.“ (The song of the piano is a discourse. The song of the cello is an elegy. The song of the guitar - is a song). In the first film (Segovia at los Olivos), Segovia talks on camera. In the second, his voice is out of vision, except for a short statement at the beginning and he talks not about his career, but about his youth and about the spirit in which he set out on his remarkable quest - a great artist in late maturity remembering the genesis of his extraordinary journey. lt is made as a poetic recollection of the atmosphere rather than the facts of his passionate beginnings nearly 70 years earlier - and Andrés Segovia was a poet in almost everything that he did. The idea was clearly promising, but the Alhambra is one of the world’s great tourist attractions and draws more than 4,000 tourists every day during the summer. We had to live with that and so, each evening, we had to wait until the tourists had gone before we could even start setting up the lights and the cameras. We generally started at about 10:00 p.m. and we called our artist only when we were ready. We avoided the heat but it meant that we started filming well after midnight every night and worked until about 4 o’clock in the morning. Spanish timing - nothing new for Andrés Segovia. In his youth he often played for his friends in the Alhambra after midnight and he gave many a late night recital there at the Granada Festival. So the setting is as legitimate as it is glorious. He plays music by Albeniz, Granados, Scariatti, Rameau, Sor, Ponce, Aguado, Bach, Chopin and Torroba. In many ways, Andrés Segovia led a magical life and the first reason for making these films is to try and preserve something of that magic for others to marvel at, now and in the years to come.“ 0:24 Isaac Albeniz - Capricho 5:25 Enrique Granados - La Maja de Goya 7:07 Isaac Albeniz (arr. Segovia) - Torre Bemeja 8:59 Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata 13:04 Jean-Philippe Rameau (arr. Segovia) - Minuet 16:48 Fernando Sor (arr. Segovia) - Minuet 19:53 Manuel María Ponce (arr. Segovia) - Ballet 22:57 Manuel María Ponce (arr. Segovia) - Allegretto 25:50 Dionisio Aguado - Etude 27:18 Johann Sebastian Bach - Gavotte 32:05 Frédéric Chopin (arr. Segovia) - Prelude 33:26 Federico Moreno Torroba - Sonatina 38:23 Isaac Albeniz - Leyenda 45:34 El Noy de la Mare (Traditional, arr. Segovia)