{"id":9637,"date":"2018-04-20T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T22:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=9637"},"modified":"2020-07-01T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:24:28","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-john-williams-and-julian-bream-play-manuel-de-fallas-danza-espanola-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-john-williams-and-julian-bream-play-manuel-de-fallas-danza-espanola-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: John Williams and Julian Bream Play Manuel de Falla’s ‘Danza Espa\u00f1ola No. 1’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a glorious blast from the past: John Williams and Julian Bream, who as a duo put out a pair of landmark studio albums in 1972 and 1974\u2014Julian & John<\/em> and Julian and John 2\u2014<\/em>as well as a live duo album in 1979, appeared on British TV in 1973, in between their two album releases, and played this propulsive version of Danza Es<\/em>pa\u00f1ola No. 1<\/em> from the opera\u00a0La vida breve<\/em> by Manuel de Falla (1876\u20131946). Sound and video are a little funky, but it’s a top-notch performance by the supremely talented duo. (If you’re looking for CDs of those vinyl albums, it’s easiest to purchase the two-disc Julian Bream & John Williams Together: The Ultimate Collection<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Here’s what composer Tom Eastwood wrote of the studio recording of the piece in the liner notes for Julian & John<\/em>: “Spaniards often maintain that the English do not understand their rhythms and lack the verve and passion to perform Spanish music. Falla’s piece is marked molto ritmico<\/em>, but it is subtle in nuance, designed to be danced by the ballet [in the opera] rather than in the caves of Granada. Nevertheless, it has it moments of scowling excitement, into which the Anglo-Saxon duo plunges with full-blooded Iberian zest.” True!<\/p>\n

I know what you’re thinking: “You’re not going to publish that album cover showing Bream and Williams in their “mod” togs, are you?” Of course I am! The fashion police never rest.\u00a0\u00a0\u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here’s a glorious blast from the past: John Williams and Julian Bream, who as a duo put out a pair of landmark studio albums in 1972 and 1974\u2014Julian & John and Julian and John 2\u2014as well as a live duo album in 1979, appeared on British TV in 1973, in between their two album releases, and played this propulsive version of Danza Espa\u00f1ola No. 1 from the opera\u00a0La vida breve by Manuel de Falla (1876\u20131946). Sound and video are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9684,"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-9637","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\/2018\/04\/john-and-julian.jpg?fit=980%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637","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=9637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}