{"id":14103,"date":"2019-11-27T22:21:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=14103"},"modified":"2020-07-01T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:23:24","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-julian-bream-plays-granados-la-maja-de-goya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-julian-bream-plays-granados-la-maja-de-goya\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Julian Bream Plays Granados&#8217; &#8216;La Maja de Goya&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the political turmoil that&#8217;s enveloping us here in the U.S., this week I&#8217;m looking for a little serenity (and escape). So, who better to provide that than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.julianbreamguitar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Bream<\/a>? In this video, excerpted from a famous TV series Bream made a number of years ago, the master guitarist performs Enrique Granados&#8217; beautiful and much-loved <em>La Maja de Goya <\/em>(interspersed with footage of Goya works and various contemporary women). What passion and exemplary technique and attention to detail he displays!<\/p>\n<p>The piece was written in 1910 as one of Granados&#8217; <em>T<\/em><i>onadillas al estilo antiguo, <\/i>for voice and piano; the words being drawn from\u00a0 poems by Fernando Periquet. Most guitar versions do not include singing, though Christopher Parkening and soprano Kathleen Battle recorded a gorgeous voice-guitar rendition of the piece on their 1986 album <em>Pleasures of Their Company,<\/em> which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1AsNB-W4hxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listen to here<\/a><em>. <\/em>\u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the political turmoil that&#8217;s enveloping us here in the U.S., this week I&#8217;m looking for a little serenity (and escape). So, who better to provide that than Julian Bream? In this video, excerpted from a famous TV series Bream made a number of years ago, the master guitarist performs Enrique Granados&#8217; beautiful and much-loved La Maja de Goya (interspersed with footage of Goya works and various contemporary women). What passion and exemplary technique and attention to detail he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14105,"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":[145],"class_list":["post-14103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","tag-julian-bream","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bream-Granados.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103","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=14103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}