Eliot Fisk: classical vs electric guitar

ROBERT BEASER
GUITAR CONCERTO
Eliot Fisk, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, José Serebrier
Available here: www.linnrecords...
Conducting legend José Serebrier, together with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performs the premiere recording of four works by contemporary American composer, Robert Beaser. Two of the works, Notes on a Southern Sky and the Guitar Concerto, were written for guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk, a noted pupil of Andrés Segovia, who performed the concerto alongside José Serebrier in 2015 and returns for this recording. Fisk describes them as ‘epic works of historical importance in the history of the guitar.’ Premiered by Fisk in New York in 2009, the Guitar Concerto is truly symphonic in scale with virtuoso passages that only a master could write; the variety of styles perfectly exploits Fisk's dazzling agility. Evening Prayer is an orchestral tone poem demonstrating the melodic and harmonic beauty which characterises Beaser’s style. Ground O is Beaser’s own orchestration of an earlier work written within a month of the events of September 11; its power to reflect the enormous sadness of this tragedy is unspeakably moving. José Serebrier is one of the most recorded classical artists in history; he has received eight GRAMMY® wins and forty-five GRAMMY® Award nominations including a Latin GRAMMY® nomination for his recording of Adler’s Sixth Symphony with the RSNO. The RSNO has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its recordings, receiving two Diapason d’Or de l’année awards for Symphonic Music and eight GRAMMY® Award nominations to date. Guitarist Eliot Fisk is known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous and virtuosic repertoire; he has performed with the LA Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Rochester Symphony, Orchestra of St. Lukes, Pro Arte Orchestra, BMOP, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and numerous others.

[@NORDT]

40 years ago I was a student of John Major at CSUS. John told me to attend a master class in Davis Ca. being held by this fellow Elliot Fisk. Never heard of the guy but I figured he must be good. I recall walking up to the front door of a modest residence where the master class was held and Eliot opening up the screen door playing scales with the guitar in his free hand.Later that evening we met at a different at different residence for a recital. I paid one dollar and sat 5' in front of Eliot for an hour. God he must have been all of 26 then. I'm 70.

[@worldstallestdrummer]

Love this man and was my very first concert when he played my middle school in 70s

[@videotrexx]

And what middle school would that have been, since in the early 70s I saw him 5 days a week on my high school bus.

[@worldstallestdrummer]

@@videotrexx late 70s for me, LMS 1979 but not sure

[@dionandcollinsmusic8160]

I saw this rascal in Jacksonville fl. One time. He is a beast!!

[@videotrexx]

I saw him 5 days a week on my high school bus back in the early 70s.

[@alandana]

I appreciate your videos. Your videos on scales are nice.
Thank you!
Alan

[@Soytu19]

Yes, they are almost the opposite. From the one hand totally rawn and from the other totally amplified.

[@JonDunnmusician]

I feel the exact same way

[@iraskal1706]

great outlook and output

[@terencegibson9270]

to me eliot fisk looks a bit like woody allen great guitarist, loved the paggannini caprices, also liste to antonio de innocentis play the caprices, he is also great

[@MrLandale]

He looks like a mix of Woody Allen and Bill Gates 🙂

[@irishfruitandberries9059]

I think this video should have been titled ‘Elliot Rambles’

[@JohnDoe-gk7ok]

I didn’t realize that Andy Dick knew so much about guitar.

[@ciarraibuzz]

I saw Eliot Fisk at Sprague Hall at Yale. Far out.

[@videotrexx]

I saw him 5 days a week on my high school bus back in the early 70s.

[@virtualpilgrim8645]

WTF Does Jimi Hendrix and the electric guitar have anything to do with racism? He was loved by many people and was highly successful.

[@mctwain5319]

Although what he did with Paganini 24 was great for classical nylon guitar. I found it a robotic boring bland autistic transcription, considering it was done to death on a violin over and over . I preferred the sound of this shredder that disappeared named Bernd Steidl wtf happened to him? He actually wrote his own music! Was a composer! Not just a typical OCD guitarist

[@cihad2003]

Where did he learned german?

[@Ivan1burnf4ces]

i always wondered 'how the hell does someone who plays like that talk/think'
was not disappointed by this video

[@richiegreen]

How did we get to your politics? Boring.