The 20th Century's Haunting Masterpiece (ft. Steve Goss)

Today, we're celebrating 60 years of the Nocturnal After John Dowland, one of the most imaginative compositions ever written for the instrument.
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Hi everyone! Watch the full episode directly on tonebase: app.tonebase.co/guitar/courses/free/benjamin-britten-nocturnal-lecture-by-stephen-goss?
Laura Snowden's performance: th-cam.com/video/L5FMGyAW9bI/w-d-xo.html
For further reading, here's an incredibly in-depth article on the piece by Steve Goss: steve-paperclip.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/documents/uploadedfiles/000/000/287/original/Goss.pdf
Cheers! -Jakob

[@MikeFowlerguitars]

I've been after a video like this about Nocturnal for many years. Thanks very very much. I'll be watching the full version. Praise to Laura Snowdon as well as Mr Goss. 👍👍

[@kristijanpavlovic]

Too bad the piece is not that well known outside the classical guitar niche. It really is an outstanding piece and it deserves more love.

[@brunoallen9465]

Very intersting thank you !! ❤

[@DeOmnibusDubitandum76]

So many lost decades! How I wish this treasure trove of beautiful multimedia resources had been available when I took beginning classical guitar lessons as a misguided teenager! The total absence of proper foundations and guidance by morose teachers, the complete disconnection with the tradition, the artists, the history, and the repertoire by these pseodopedagogues contributed to my abandonment of the instrument. I will never know what progress I could have made with some enlightened and caring mentoring. Thanks for these!

[@koelbird4608]

Where is the piece???

[@santiagoabadiamusic]

Great content on Britten's masterpiece for the guitar. Thank you!

[@ClassicalGuitarMusings]

Amazing

[@ww3032]

This piece is not for me.

[@Yann-wu3fk]

"one of the most imaginative compositions ever"? Puh-leaze. 🙄 Keep up the propaganda, Tonebase. Perhaps remaining stuck in the mindset of the 1950s will eventually Make Classical Guitar Great Again. 😂 #MaCGGA

[@Yann-wu3fk]

@@MaximusStetich I could mention several, if I were stupid enough to do so. The point is to express dissent, not to convert the altar boys.

[@Yann-wu3fk]

@@MaximusStetich Need some cutlery for your pretentious word salad, do you?

[@MaximusStetich]

@@Yann-wu3fk No, I have my own. I like my floccinaucinihilipilification of others with some fiber. You clearly know more about music than myself, and yet refuse to talk about it substantively. You gasconade with bombast and condescension toward those who don’t know as much as you - people who are as uninformed as they are actually interested in these things. Your cynicism is showing, and the performative cruelty is quite lame. I would love to know YOUR unique and interesting opinion on what the most imaginative guitar compositions are. Why would it be stupid to mention those?

[@MaximusStetich]

@@Yann-wu3fk No, I have my own. I like my floccinaucinihilipilification of others with some fiber. You clearly know more about music than myself, and yet refuse to talk about it substantively. You gasconade with bombast and condescension toward those who don’t know as much as you, people who are as uninformed as they are actually interested. Your cynicism is showing, and the performative cruelty is lame. I would love to know YOUR unique and iconoclastic opinion on what the most imaginative guitar compositions are. Why would mentioning those be stupid?

[@MaximusStetich]

@@Yann-wu3fk No, I have my own. I like my floccinaucinihilipilification of others with some fiber. You clearly know more about music than myself, and yet refuse to talk about it substantively. You gasconade with bombast and condescension toward those who don’t know as much as you, people who are as uninformed as they are actually interested. Your cynicism is showing, and the performative cruelty is lame. I would love to know YOUR unique and iconoclastic opinion on what the most imaginative guitar compositions are. Why would mentioning those be stupid?