{"id":5318,"date":"2016-11-04T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2016-11-04T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:09:40","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-duo-francaix-plays-oriental-from-enrique-granados-danzas-espanolas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-duo-francaix-plays-oriental-from-enrique-granados-danzas-espanolas\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Duo Fran\u00e7aix Plays \u2018Oriental\u2019 from Enrique Granados\u2019 &#8216;Danzas Espa\u00f1olas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duofrancaix.com\/\">Duo Fran\u00e7aix<\/a> is named after a French composer and pianist\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Fran%C3%A7aix\">Jean Fran\u00e7aix<\/a> (1912\u20131997; he wrote a handful of pieces for guitar, including one for guitar duo, called <em>Divertissement<\/em>, in 1982)\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duofrancaix.com\/\u00fcber-uns\/eli\u0161ka\/\">Isabella Selder<\/a> (left in the video) is German and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duofrancaix.com\/\u00fcber-uns\/eli\u0161ka\/\">Eli\u0161ka Lenhartov\u00e1<\/a> (right) is Czech. They met while studying guitar at the Academy of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany, several years ago; now both are master\u2019s candidates at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Both also perform solo (and each has won numerous competitions) and teach guitar in the Augsburg\/Munich area of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, produced by the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siccasguitars.co.uk\/\">Siccas Guitars<\/a>, Duo Fran\u00e7aix render a lovely version of Enrique Granados\u2019 <em>Danzas Espa\u00f1olas Op. 37, No. 2 \u2018Oriental,\u2019<\/em> originally written for piano in 1890. Isabella plays a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siccasguitars.co.uk\/shop\/guitar\/dominique-field-1981\/\">1981 Dominique Field<\/a> guitar, while Eli\u0161ka plucks a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siccasguitars.co.uk\/shop\/guitar\/ennio-giovanetti-2015\/\">2015 Ennio Giovanetti<\/a> model from 2015. And if you enjoyed that, check out the Duo playing the aforementioned Fran\u00e7aix piece, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tuzwQfQRuAA\">Divertissement<\/a><\/em>, from the same Siccas session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Duo Fran\u00e7aix is named after a French composer and pianist\u2014Jean Fran\u00e7aix (1912\u20131997; he wrote a handful of pieces for guitar, including one for guitar duo, called Divertissement, in 1982)\u2014 Isabella Selder (left in the video) is German and Eli\u0161ka Lenhartov\u00e1 (right) is Czech. They met while studying guitar at the Academy of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany, several years ago; now both are master\u2019s candidates at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Both also perform solo (and each has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5321,"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-5318","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\/2016\/11\/francaix.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","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=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}