{"id":7820,"date":"2017-09-08T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=7820"},"modified":"2021-04-09T09:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T16:08:46","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-jan-depreter-plays-his-own-the-isle-of-skye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-jan-depreter-plays-his-own-the-isle-of-skye\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Jan Depreter Plays His Own &#8216;The Isle of Skye&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isleofskye.com\/\">Isle of Skye <\/a>is a rugged and beautiful island off the west coast of Scotland, dotted with picturesque villages, rolling hills, craggy mountains, and even a few old castles. Its breathtaking landscape (and history) have inspired many a writer and musician, including the composer and player of this week&#8217;s &#8220;Pick&#8221;: the great Belgian guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/jandepreter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan Depreter<\/a>. He originally recorded the piece on his 2012 album <a href=\"http:\/\/jandepreter.com\/music\/wit-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wit.<\/a>\u00a0 It&#8217;s a delightful evocation of the Scottish Highlands, fun to listen to and clearly fun to play, too! It was published a few years ago in a book of Depreter&#8217;s compositions called <a href=\"http:\/\/jandepreter.com\/music\/northern-lights\/\"><em>Northern Lights<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0<em>\u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s an Isle of Skye vista:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7824\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/skye-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/skye.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/skye.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/skye.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/skye.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Isle of Skye is a rugged and beautiful island off the west coast of Scotland, dotted with picturesque villages, rolling hills, craggy mountains, and even a few old castles. Its breathtaking landscape (and history) have inspired many a writer and musician, including the composer and player of this week&#8217;s &#8220;Pick&#8221;: the great Belgian guitarist Jan Depreter. He originally recorded the piece on his 2012 album Wit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a delightful evocation of the Scottish Highlands, fun to listen to and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7823,"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":[5,7],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-watch","tag-jan-depreter","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Jan_Depreter.jpg?fit=900%2C444&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","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=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16024,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions\/16024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}