{"id":14173,"date":"2019-12-13T13:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=14173"},"modified":"2019-12-13T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:40:49","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-rossini-hayward-x4-plays-the-seasonal-coventry-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-rossini-hayward-x4-plays-the-seasonal-coventry-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Rossini Hayward (x4!) Plays the Seasonal &#8216;Coventry Carol&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year around this time, we posted a pair of Christmas songs played by the fine England-born, Germany-based guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rossinihayward.com\/en\/home\">Rossini Hayward<\/a>. Well, he&#8217;s back with another holiday offering, which I am pleased to share with all of you! The beloved 16th century <em>Coventry Carol<\/em> was, Wikipedia helpfully tells us, inspired by one of the darker episodes in the Bible\u2014&#8221;the Massacre of the Innocents, in which King Herod ordered all male infants under the age of two in Bethlehem to be killed. [The song] takes the form of a lullaby sung by mothers of the doomed children.&#8221; Yikes! I kind of wish I hadn&#8217;t read that. Well, whatever the lyric context, it&#8217;s still one of the most beautiful melodies I know.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Rossini told us a couple of weeks ago: &#8220;I am just coming to the end of arranging a set of 18 international Christmas carols for solo guitar, which will be published next year by UT Orpheus. I plan to record a CD of the arrangements next year, in time for a Christmas 2020 release. The CD will be primarily a solo guitar CD, though I will add a degree of overdubbing on some of the tracks, with the constraint that all sounds must be produced by either me or my guitar! As you can see, with <em>Coventry Carol<\/em> I have added quite a few layers over the original solo voice, which is played throughout the piece and is a pretty exact transcription of the 1591 manuscript by Thomas Mawdyke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, with a healthy dash of both audio and visual legerdemain, this <em>Coventry Carol<\/em> evolves into a piece performed by four Rossini Haywards! It&#8217;s both lovely and imaginative. \u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year around this time, we posted a pair of Christmas songs played by the fine England-born, Germany-based guitarist Rossini Hayward. Well, he&#8217;s back with another holiday offering, which I am pleased to share with all of you! 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