Thursday, May 24, 2007

Barrios

What a lovely, romantic guitar music from Paraguay!

Agustín Barrios Mangoré was born in 1885 in San Juan Bautista de las Missiones, in Paraguay and died in 1944. He was a great Paraguayan composer and guitarist. Barrios was the favorite composer of John Williams. Barrios was Bela Bartok's contemporary but his music reminds me much more of Frédéric Chopin's style.

We did this video clip after sunset and before it was growing dark. It means that we had only 30 minutes for all the pieces we wanted to have in this mood... Fortunately the weather was great. Candles around me in the garden of the church. It fit to the romantic guitar music...