{"id":11383,"date":"2018-11-11T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=11383"},"modified":"2018-11-11T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:15:41","slug":"different-duos-sunday-7-dmitry-voronin-guitar-and-alexandra-veronina-piano-play-introduction-and-fandango-by-boccherini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/different-duos-sunday-7-dmitry-voronin-guitar-and-alexandra-veronina-piano-play-introduction-and-fandango-by-boccherini\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Duos Sunday #7: Dmitry Voronin (guitar) and Alexandra Veronina (piano) Play &#8216;Introduction and Fandango&#8217; by Boccherini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s somewhat surprising to me that the duo combo of guitar and piano is not more common than it is, because, as this video clearly shows, it can be a wonderful pairing. The players this time out are Russians Dmitry Voronin on guitar and Alexandra (or Aleksandra) Veronina on piano, about whom I was unable to dig up much info. The duo have at least one album out (maybe more?)\u2014a Russian release that translates to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rhapsody-Dmitry-Voronin-Aleksandra-Voronina\/dp\/B06ZZGMSQC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>South Rhapsody<\/em><\/a>, though this piece is not on it.<\/p>\n<p>The duo plays a work by the extremely prolific late-18th century Italian composer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luigi_Boccherini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luigi Boccherini<\/a> (1743\u20131805), adapted from a guitar quintet in D major known as the <em>Fandango <\/em>(G448). As far as I can tell (and please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong!) Julian Bream is the guitarist who originally arranged the piece for guitar-and-keyboard duet: he first recorded his transcription with harpsichordist Malcolm Brown for the 1970 Bream album <em>Art of the Spanish Guitar<\/em>. And if you&#8217;d like an added treat, check out this YouTube version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vid_2-yiTZk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two Julian Breams<\/a> playing the <em>Fandango<\/em>, sans &#8220;Introduction.&#8221;\u00a0 In more recent times, the piece has turned up in the repertoire of various guitar quartets (and string quartets and quintets, for that matter). \u2014<em>Blair Jackson <\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11389\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11389\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Luigi_Boccherini-265x300.jpg?resize=265%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Luigi_Boccherini.jpg?resize=265%2C300&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Luigi_Boccherini.jpg?resize=768%2C871&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Luigi_Boccherini.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luigi Boccherini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s somewhat surprising to me that the duo combo of guitar and piano is not more common than it is, because, as this video clearly shows, it can be a wonderful pairing. The players this time out are Russians Dmitry Voronin on guitar and Alexandra (or Aleksandra) Veronina on piano, about whom I was unable to dig up much info. The duo have at least one album out (maybe more?)\u2014a Russian release that translates to South Rhapsody, though this piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11390,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fandango.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383","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=11383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}