{"id":5533,"date":"2016-11-24T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2016-11-23T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T23:35:59","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-beijing-guitar-duo-plays-pixinguinha-from-gnatallis-suite-retratos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-beijing-guitar-duo-plays-pixinguinha-from-gnatallis-suite-retratos\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Beijing Guitar Duo Plays &#8216;Pixinguinha&#8217; from Gnattali&#8217;s &#8216;Suite Retratos&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The supremely talented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beijingguitarduo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing Guitar Duo<\/a>\u2014Meng Su (on the left in\u00a0 the video) and Yameng Wang\u2014serenade us with this exquisite version of the first part of Brazilian composer Radam\u00e9s Gnattali&#8217;s \u00a0much-played <em>Suite Retratos<\/em>: &#8220;Pixinguinha (Choro). &#8221; Gnattali (1906\u20131988) named the movement after one of the most famous composers of popular music \u00a0Brazil has produced (real name: Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., 1897\u20131973). A studio version of the entire suite appears on the Duo&#8217;s 2010 CD\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beijingguitarduo.com\/cds-dvds\/maracaipe-guitar-duos-and-solos-by-gnattali-assad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maraca\u00edpe<\/a><\/em>, which, besides the Gnattali, includes several pieces by another Brazilian, S\u00e9rgio Assad.<\/p>\n<p>For a bit more on the Beijing Guitar Duo, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/solo-duo-trio-the-multifaceted-career-of-meng-su\/\" target=\"_blank\">this story on Meng Su<\/a>, which appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of <em>Classical Guitar<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supremely talented Beijing Guitar Duo\u2014Meng Su (on the left in\u00a0 the video) and Yameng Wang\u2014serenade us with this exquisite version of the first part of Brazilian composer Radam\u00e9s Gnattali&#8217;s \u00a0much-played Suite Retratos: &#8220;Pixinguinha (Choro). &#8221; Gnattali (1906\u20131988) named the movement after one of the most famous composers of popular music \u00a0Brazil has produced (real name: Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., 1897\u20131973). A studio version of the entire suite appears on the Duo&#8217;s 2010 CD\u00a0Maraca\u00edpe, which, besides the Gnattali, includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5536,"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":[5,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-uncategorized","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\/BEIJING.jpg?fit=405%2C347&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","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=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}