{"id":12960,"date":"2019-05-16T15:54:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T22:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2020-06-10T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:53:24","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-rovshan-mamedkuliev-plays-tarregas-gran-jota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-rovshan-mamedkuliev-plays-tarregas-gran-jota\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Rovshan Mamedkuliev Plays T\u00e1rrega&#8217;s &#8216;Gran Jota&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We posted this video a couple of years ago to accompany our report on what turned out to be the final edition of the La Guitarra California festival, but I like it so much I think it&#8217;s worth repeating as a Video Pick! Azerbaijani\/Russian guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/mamedkuliev.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rovshan Mamedkuliev<\/a> is definitely one of my favorite current players. I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to see him play a couple of times and he always stuns me with his sheer brilliance. At that La Guitarra event in 2017, the 2012 GFA competition winner served as the &#8220;opener&#8221; for a special award presentation for Christopher Parkening, and he brought down the house with his performance, which concluded with this piece, Francisco\u00a0T\u00e1rrega&#8217;s 1872\u00a0<em>Gran Jota<\/em>, an incredibly demanding and virtuosic work (which scholars believe T\u00e1rrega reworked from Juli\u00e1n Arcas&#8217; earlier <em>Jota aragonesa).<\/em> Listen to all the different tonal colors Mamedkuliev elicits from his instrument, and the confidence with which he navigates the piece&#8217;s many twists and turns. Like Bach&#8217;s mammoth\u00a0 <em>Chaconne<\/em>, the <em>Gran Jota<\/em> is almost a rite of passage for top guitarists by this point, and Mamedkuliev passes this &#8220;test&#8221; with flying colors. If he comes to your town (or country!) don&#8217;t miss him!\u00a0\u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We posted this video a couple of years ago to accompany our report on what turned out to be the final edition of the La Guitarra California festival, but I like it so much I think it&#8217;s worth repeating as a Video Pick! Azerbaijani\/Russian guitarist Rovshan Mamedkuliev is definitely one of my favorite current players. I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to see him play a couple of times and he always stuns me with his sheer brilliance. At that La Guitarra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12961,"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":[141],"class_list":["post-12960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","tag-tarrega","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rovshan-e1558045777651.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960","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=12960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}