{"id":10401,"date":"2018-07-09T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T21:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2018-07-10T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:21:46","slug":"world-cup-semifinal-special-1-france-thibaut-garcia-v-belgium-boris-gaquere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/world-cup-semifinal-special-1-france-thibaut-garcia-v-belgium-boris-gaquere\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Semifinal Special #1: France (Thibaut Garcia) v. Belgium (Boris Gaquere)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, maybe you don&#8217;t care at all about the two World Cup semifinal matches in St. Petersburg and Moscow on Tuesday and Wednesday (July 10 and 11). Well, I do! So, in the spirit of friendly competition, here are guitarists from two of the four countries competing to go into next Sunday&#8217;s finals match: France and Belgium. I know what you&#8217;re wondering: Is this just another lame excuse to post a couple more cool performance videos? Absolutely! Thank goodness the four remaining countries all have active classical guitar scenes!<\/p>\n<p>Young French guitarist Thibaut Garcia entertains us with the &#8220;Entr\u00e9e&#8221; to the early 18th century <em>Sonata in A Minor<\/em> by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (from Germany, knocked out of the World Cup in the first round!), while in a more vintage clip, Belgian Boris Gaquere does a nice job on a bouncy contemporary piece called <em>Pulo do gato<\/em> (&#8220;cat&#8217;s leap&#8221;) written by Paolo Bellinati of Brazil (losers to Belgium in the quarterfinals; oh, the irony!). I&#8217;d say the Bellinati is somewhat in the same spirit as his much-played &#8220;Jongo.&#8221;\u00a0\u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTtFXf8B_Ys\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, maybe you don&#8217;t care at all about the two World Cup semifinal matches in St. Petersburg and Moscow on Tuesday and Wednesday (July 10 and 11). Well, I do! So, in the spirit of friendly competition, here are guitarists from two of the four countries competing to go into next Sunday&#8217;s finals match: France and Belgium. I know what you&#8217;re wondering: Is this just another lame excuse to post a couple more cool performance videos? Absolutely! Thank goodness the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Thibaut.jpg?fit=1941%2C1223&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}