Interview Alvaro Pierri - The Crisis Of The Guitar - IV/VI

Part 04/06 - Alvaro Pierri by Marcelo Kayath
GuitarCoop will continue a series of exclusive interviews with some of the greatest guitarists of today. Next week, GuitarCoop's guest is the Uruguayan virtuoso Álvaro Pierri. Admired by his refined technique, rich tonal palette and thought-provoking, original and sometimes radical interpretations, Pierri reminisces about his formative years and unveils his musical secrets.
CREDITS
Interviewer: Marcelo Kayath
Editor: Eduardo Sardinha
Images: Eduardo Sardinha, Daniel Nakano
Sound Engineering: Ricardo Marui
Sound Assistants: Henrique Caldas, Tami Belfer
Production: Lilah Kuhn
Subtitles: Luciano Morais, Fabio Zanon, Renato Oliveira
Produced by GuitarCoop
São Paulo - September / 2015

[@martinrivero1862]

What a gem

[@markwilliams3174]

Blame the judges in competitions for being over protective gatekeepers and penalising risk-taking

[@markiluc]

I see just old players not really upadated to the current guitar scene, full of talented guitarist and ideas. The only problem of classical guitar is that there are just few masterpieces after the romantic golden age. The piano and orchestra have so many movie composition and new genres born from the social contamination. The classical guitar music today is just contemplation

[@robbrown8483]

What crisis? There are more and better guitarists and more fine music being written for the guitar today then ever before. This is just gibberish.

[@garygullikson6349]

Wish I could have understood him better.

[@markwilliams3174]

I used subtitles. His microphone was a bit woolly and the articulation of consonants was difficult to discern.

[@adrianburridge2378]

What on earth have I been listening to???

[@phlatpickr5951]

Can anybody here understand the last few words of this interview? Pierri says "you can go in a concert and hear Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Scriabin, Rossini, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, whatever.. all fantastic, all ________?

[@gilmeda]

.... stupidly played?

[@markwilliams3174]

Guitar virtuosos are gravitating to the academy and only playing to the elite audiences, cutting themselves off from popular audiences and populist fashions. Performing Fantasias on popular songs is viewed as "low -brow"

[@doyeonkim6742]

Consecration, celebration of mediocrity..