{"id":10698,"date":"2018-08-10T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2018-08-10T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:32:12","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-duo-dryades-mari-mantyla-10-string-decacorde-kristina-kuusisto-bandoneon-plays-tomas-gubitschs-villa-luro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-duo-dryades-mari-mantyla-10-string-decacorde-kristina-kuusisto-bandoneon-plays-tomas-gubitschs-villa-luro\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Duo Dryades (Mari M\u00e4ntyl\u00e4, 10-string Decacorde & Kristina Kuusisto, Bandoneon) Plays Tom\u00e1s Gubitsch’s ‘Villa Luro’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s something that’s a little bit different, but definitely cool.\u00a0Mari M\u00e4ntyl\u00e4<\/a> is a talented guitarist from Finland whose specialty is the ten-string\u00a0decacorde<\/a>, which adds four bass resonance strings to a conventional classical guitar, broadening its sonic palette considerably, giving it a richer, more full-bodied sound. Of course decacordes are not new\u2014Rene Lac\u00f4te and Ferdinando Carulli collaborated on the design of one in the early 19th century, and more than a century after that Narciso Yepes and Jos\u00e9 Ramirez built a more modern version. Players here and there have played other custom models;\u00a0M\u00e4ntyl\u00e4’s was made by the contemporary Finnish luthier Kauko Liikanen<\/a>.\u00a0M\u00e4ntyl\u00e4 is particularly notable because she has championed modern composers and has actively commissioned many new works for the instrument, a few of which can be heard on her wonderful, just-released solo decacorde album,\u00a0Orfeo Amoroso<\/a>,\u00a0on Finland’s Alba label. (I’ll be writing more about that album soon.)<\/p>\n

This week’s Video Pick, however, comes from Duo Dryades<\/a>, which features\u00a0M\u00e4ntyl\u00e4 and Finnish bandoneon player Kristina Kuusisto (who was reviewed in this space earlier in 2018 for her fine collaboration with French guitarist Roger Eon: Duo Silb’s Ouverture<\/em>)<\/a>. Duo Dryades was formed in 2002 and has played around Europe ever since, while\u00a0M\u00e4ntyl\u00e4 and Kuusisto have also individually pursued many other solo and ensemble projects. This particular piece, Villa Luro<\/em>, written by Paris-based composer\u00a0Tom\u00e1s Gubitsch (b. 1957 in Argentina to central European parents; he moved to Paris in 1977 when he was a member of Astor Piazzolla’s group), appeared on\u00a0Duo Dryades’ 2014 album Kirmari<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s something that’s a little bit different, but definitely cool.\u00a0Mari M\u00e4ntyl\u00e4 is a talented guitarist from Finland whose specialty is the ten-string\u00a0decacorde, which adds four bass resonance strings to a conventional classical guitar, broadening its sonic palette considerably, giving it a richer, more full-bodied sound. Of course decacordes are not new\u2014Rene Lac\u00f4te and Ferdinando Carulli collaborated on the design of one in the early 19th century, and more than a century after that Narciso Yepes and Jos\u00e9 Ramirez built a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10704,"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-10698","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\/08\/duo-dryades-1.jpg?fit=512%2C322&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","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=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}