Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant by MS3 Baroque Trio

Couple of pieces by Loeillet. Played by MS3 Baroque Trio at Visegrad Church. There was a great temperature - around 10 degrees... Loved to play these Loeillet pieces especially in a church. The arrangement was classical guitar, alto sax and violincello.

Jean Baptiste Loeillet was a great French baroque composer son of a great French musician family. Jean Baptiste Loeillet (1688–cca. 1720) "de Gant" since he was born in Ghent. He had a cousin Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (1680–1730), who was a famous and populair composer and performer living London. Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant was working at Munich court then in France. His works were printed in Amsterdam.

Janos Vazsonyi on alto saxophon and Györgyi Papp on violincello.

Loillet

We are playing pieces of Loillet as a barowue trio on classical guitar, alt sax and violincello.. I prefer these kind of mediterrean baroque... Easy to learn these Loillet pieces quickly and fits to the church acoustics...

Bartok on guitar

I am still practising Bartók pieces from For Children. Still on 6-strings... I still cannot switch to 8-strings..But I will.. I play on my concerts the good old Tarrega, Barrios, Villa-Lobos classical guitar pieces.I am Hungarian so I hope I can play Bartók very well. I have been playing these pieces for 4-5 years and i think I will do this 40 years later as well...

Juan Lopez Aguilarte

I think I found the brother of my guitar. Or my sister? I dont know. I call it sometimes my beauty so maybe that is she... My guitar way made by Juan Lopez Aguilarte in Granada in 1988... Lovely sound, wide range of tones and volume. I have been using it for fifteen years.

The photo of the other Juan Lopez Aguilarte guitar downloaded from the owner brother Nacho Bellido:



The brother

I started to learn using rock and pop guitar tabs since I need to know it because of my young pupils.. They download a lot from the Net.. I teach orincipally classical guitar but in the 21th you can not do that without teaching some pop music. I wanna teach a mass. When you have a mass then you can choose one or two guys to be professional classical guitar. But you need a mass first.

Great website I have found to start with tabs:
http://www.guitartabs.net/

34

I am getting older and older.. I will be 34 soon..

People usually re-think their previous years what they did or did not..

I am getting old enough to relax when I want - dont stress when I dont have to...

Do you like Anima Sound System Trubul Ek Vorba. This is a great Hungarian pop band..
I am getting ready to make a great DI song on classical guitar? I am always asked by my business partners... At present I am fully scheduled for my concerts of I am doing to get fully scheduled. And I teach a lot. I have couple of new methods how get more and more young boys and girls to play on classical guitar. They need to play pop music or learn playing chords of popular songs.. They hate learning music theory very much..

Russia

We were in Russia for almost two weeks with my wife - actually we were on honeymoon. We were in St. Petersburg as well as in Moscow. We were saw an excellent performance of the legendary Kirov Ballet in Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg is an old cultural centre of Russia and has a great ambient

In Moscow we were on a concert of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in the Great Hall of (Bolsoj Zal) the Tchaikovsky Conservatory which is a
legendary place as well. Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh all the great Russian (CCCP) artists used to study there. Lots of old poster and pictures on the walls give you a feeling that time does not go by, they will train and "manufacture" the best musicians, composers for the world every time. They played Igor Stravinksy: Petruska, S.Prokofjev Violin Concerto No 1 in before the break and then Alexander Borodin: Symphony No. 2.

We haven't seen any kind of classical guitar concerts and we did not meet local guitarists at all. It is interesting when I have couple of days somewhere in the world I neve meet classical guitarists I prefer other instruments as well as other arts such as literature, paintings etc.

We were in Dostojevski museum but it was not that great. It was good to see his manuscripts, plans and drawings of his characters. He was a very talented draughtsman as well. I have read a lot of his works and planned to go through all the Fjodor Mihajlovic's books.

sandormester.com in Russian

When I was young we had to learn Russian in the school. Everyone had to. I liked it very much when I was 12-13 years old but I did not learn it at all later because it was a must... Must is not the best motivation for a teenager espacially how I was thinking at that time... Anyway I still love Russian literature, music, painters and I will fly to Russia soon with my Ester.

And my website has a Russian version as well!

Strings

I have been practising on my 8-strings guitar made by Tihamer Romanek in the last three days. Mr. Romanek, he is a Hungarian harpsichord, guitar, lute and lute-harpsichord maker. It's much better to play scales, plucking or arpeggio exercises on this guitar than on a normal classical 6-string guitar. Practising on 8-strings is a serious physical work for the left hand since the neck is wider. Playing chords takes a long a time to learn on it but then it is so nice like on a piano! You 8 notes at the same time.

And it trains your technic much more. The instrument is more heavy than a normal 6-string classical guitar.

Doing lute, piano or cello transciptions is easier on 8-string classical guitar because you have more strings more range of sound. You can tune it on many ways. I tune it as normal guitar tuning (E-A-D-G-B-E) plus A (bass) underneath and another A at the top. Others normally tune it as a lute or a normal classical guitar plus two more bass strings.

This is not my 8-string guitar but I have exactly the same type - I got this picture from Romanek's website.

Updates on sandormester.com

Finally we could integrate the concert videos from Sibiu (Romania) to my main site sandormester.com

Neil O'Grady and MS3 play classical guitar duo improvisation together

MS3: Lullaby for Sarah

Neil O'Grady and MS3 improvise in Sibiu

And finally you can watch the videos about our intercultural improvisation with Neil in Sibiu at Astra Park.

Nik did a nice work shooting this video.

Tarrega and Villa-Lobos

A little Francisco Tarrega and more Heitor Villa-Lobos from Sibiu by ms3.. My Romanian friend Nik shot this as well..

Lullaby for Sarah from Sibiu

Nice Lullaby for Sarah - for my beauty. I played it in Sibiu at Astra Park during the European Capital of Culture. I love my daughter. I hope you can hear and feel it on this video. I told her that "I always think on you my sweetheart when I play this pieces"... "Dont think on me dad I am hear with you now" - she says.

My Romanian friend Nik shot all the videos on my concerts.

MS3 Tarrega Live from Sibiu

So here are the videos from Sibiu! Francisco Tarrega and Agustin Mangore Barrios by Sandor Mester MS3 from Sibiu, Romania - European Capital of Culture.

Thanks to WebMa team

Sting and Dowland

As everybody knows Sting released an album last year called Labyrinth. He sings John Dowland's songs on this album playing with a guy called Edin Karamazov - a lutist from Bosnia. I have never heard this name before but I like the family name 'Karamazov' anyway since my favorite writer is Dostojevskij. I have read majority of his works and when I was young I have read Karamazov Brothers and have fallen in love with Fjodor Mihajlovic's works...

I really like Sting's previous works and think that he is an intellectual pop-star singing basically rock and roll, plays on bass and double-bass very well... not that much on classical guitar...

... Spreading classical or renaissance music is important...

... But I had some disapproval with the fact that a popstar sings Dowlands works... Sting is fantastic. I checked listened to these songs on youtube this night and I can say that Sting is a sensible artist who can do anything he wants. If he cannot do that he does not do that. He did this Dowland album on a very natural way that every classical singers should do.

What do I think about Karamazov? He is a professional lute player did his job, nothing special.

My favorite Dowland video by me: Downland's Air.

What do I think about my performance...? Well, I dont think that I am the best person to ask about that but I think I did my job at least...

I started to miss Downland's pieces...

Leaving Sibiu

So I leave Sibiu tomorrow early morning. I stayed one more day to be with my Ester. My daughter is still in Greece and my next concert will be only tomorrow so there was no reason to rusg at all..

Bye-bye Sibiu and Cisnadioara!!!

Rafi Pitts

My greatest pleasure being here in Sibiu at this workshop is that I met a guy called Rafi Pitts. He is a forty year old half-English and half-Iranian film-maker working and staying mainly in Paris. He is an editor and director and basically he is not doing documentaries. As far as I know he did one documentary only that's why he is here in Sibiu at Aristotles Workshop... He is such a nice guy! I watched that doc by Rafi about 'Abel Ferrara' - who is a film director too. It is an amazing New York-movie like Cassavettes (Faces and Shadows of New York etc.) about a daily life of a film director in New York. I am so happy that I have met this guy. He is a very warm-heart person, a guy who is good to have fun with as well as the best story-teller. He is kind and knows a lot almost everything about movies and can give advises to young film-makers without being scolastic... He can get their respect, he is focused like hell and has the freedom of thinking. He has an incredible background and life-story not the easiest one I have ever heard...



I will really miss him when I'll be back to my country... Rafi Pitts is an amazing rock and roll man... I wish I could play the guitar on the same level how he makes films...

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Documentary Film Workshop in Sibiu

My Ester is taking part at a documentary film workshop in Sibiu as a director. I have been being very much interested in other artistical areas for a long a time especially in filming... I learnt a lot about film-making here in Sibiu even I wanted to or not... I met Jennifer Fox documentary film director from New York and have seen four parts of her film called 'Flying'. There are editors from a French television 'Arte' as well as couple of people from the Romanian television, Greeks, Croats etc. There is a Romanian-American actor called 'Dan' who is the leader of the workshop. He is the best host... The most loud students are the Serbian girls... They are very tough and funny..

Classical Guitar Duo Improvisation in Sibiu

Bob Bales, founder and leader of European House of Art in Romania, introduced me Neil O'Grady a brilliant classical guitarist from the UK. He is a nice man and a great guitarist. Bob wanted us to play together but we did not have time and possibilty to arrange to play some nice classical guitar duo that was written by the good old composers like Mauro Guilliani... It was on Tuesday 21th Aug...

I met Neil at 6pm during the sound check and we improvised on stage around 10... He played first in solo pieces of Villa-Lobos as well as one his own pieces and an English folk song arranged by him for classical guitar. He was singing the song and acompany himself on guitar. It was excellent. I played afterwards in solo pieces of Fransisco Tarrega, Agustin Mangore Barrios and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Then two of my pieces: Bagatelle and Lullaby. I wrote Lullaby for my beautyfull daughter Sarah who I am missing her so much since I did not see her for a long time... My Romanian friend called NIC recorded a lot last night...

We could not really reherse with Neil before the concert and it went very well!! We did an encore another improvisation. Audience liked it, we liked it so it was such a great concert. Neil told me that he knew my name but he did not remember why, when and where...

I have such a nice time in Sibiu in European Capital of Culture!

I will miss this place very much!

Good to be in Sibiu, Nagyszeben

I am enjoying being in Sibiu with such an international company like I have here.. I am doing my concerts with the help of The Art of Culture and/or European House of Arts running by Bob Bales who is a great musician, painter and somehow the representative of European culture... He has Romanian and Greek collegues and invites artists all around from the EU. Romanians are very nice to me, they help and support me more than it is I ever could imagine... and of course the local Hungarians help me a lot but there are not so many... I stay at the same hotel than all the other film-maker students and teachers.

Concerts in Sibiu

I play a lot in Sibiu.. I found a cultural online news from Romania where I could see Neil a classical guitarist from the UK who I will play with next week..

I am planning to play pieces by Dowland, Bartok and me.. English and Hungarian music that would fit to our nationality..

Sibiu

I have done three concerts in Sibiu (Romania, Capital of Europena Culture) in the last three days. People are nice and very much open-minded. I like to play here.

A film teacher has made lots of videos on my concerts but we had couple of problems to get it ready to upload to youtube and then link it to this blog.

Bob Bales our Irish friend he is very-very professional cultural program organizer as well as musician and painter.

Sibiu

We arrived to Sibiu last night... I had to drive more then ten hours continiously. I was extremely tired when I woke up Today - around noon..

I wll have lots of classical guitar concerts here in Sibiu. Nice city. As the slogan says:

city of culture. city of cultures.

Sibiu is the Cultural Capital of Europe this year. I will write more but others are waiting for Internet access well...

Barrios

I trained myself in the biography of Agustin Mangoré Barrios, one of the most important classical giutar players and composers of the twentieth century. He had long periods in depression and after these hard times he composed and practised a lot. He was very sensitive.

I like his pieces very much, I am learning Cathedral and I play Madrigale Gavotte a lot.

Read more about Barrios

Cancellation

I had to cancel ten concerts because my left rwing finger was broken in a little accident on my wedding... I will see the doctor tommorrow morning when we can figure out how to restart practicing.. Until then I am holding my breath..

I need to play and I feel my finger well hopefully I dont have to cancel my concert on next weekend...

Romania

I will play couple of concerts in Romania. I found a nice guy a month ago at Sibiu/Nagyszeben called Bob Bales who is the founder of European House of Arts in Romania. He organized classical guitar concerts for me in Sibiu.

The Program:

Discography

My discography page was renewed. Sooner or later there will be a nice and cute online store for my dvd and cds. An online and on demand shop. When? In September I hope...

We are very busy since I'll play a lot of concerts during the summer in Hungary and Romania as well spreading classical guitar music as much as I can..

Until then visit MS3's discography page

Lullaby for Sarah

Couple of years ago when my daughter was a little girl around 2-3 years old I wrote her a lullaby. I thought it would help to asleep. It is a nice piece but did not help her at all... I had four concerts last weekend around the lake Balaton basically in churches. Sound of the classical guitar fits very much to the church atmosphere and acoustics. Ester did the videos, just samples from the whole piece..

The main theme of the Lullaby:



and another part as well:

Gavotte Choros by Villa Lobos

Another video from my live performance at Szekesfehervar. I played Villa Lobos Gavotte Choros. I like this piece and played hundred times on my concerts in the last two years.

This Choros is one of the most important pieces of the classical guitar literature. You can recognize it easily, it has a very simple and nice melody, great harmonies like in a Chopin piece and has an Brazilian-Parisien ambient.

Unfortunately my guitar was not clean because of the windy weather and changes of temperature in my car - outside... Actually I changed the batteries in my tuning machine..



Ester made this shot for me.

Bela Bartok: For Children

I played a lot pieces from Bela Bartok: For Children on 6 string classical guitar on my recitals. I don't have favourites, I really like all of them!!!

Funeral Song and Lento

Funeral Song has to be played basically without any extreme emotions since you don't have lots of emotions on an event like this. You are disappointed but calm and said. Lento is a typical Hungarian song by Bartok. Depressive melody in minor key with pianississimo and fortossimo peak in 30 seconds.

Video on blog

This short video was done my Ester Yesterday at Szekesfehervar. I play my my favorite Choros by Villa Lobos.

It is just a video sample not the whole piece.

Villa Lobos again

www.sandormester.com has been updated at Villa Lobos section and you can watch my Heitro Villa Lobos: Gavotte Choros video. I love this piece and played a lot on my concerts. I played Today as well at Szekesfehervar twice since I had two concerts there this afternoon...

This piece is called Gavotte Choros but it has an ambient that reminds me much more to Chopin's music and not to the baroque sytle. Villa Lobos liked to be in classical or baroque mood that's why he named this piece as Gavotte I think...

Dowland to Bartok

I am practicing for my concerts. I'll do concerts in Sibiu (Nagyszeben in Hungarian) in Romania as well. We have fiexed seven concerts but it is possilbe that I'll do concerts every day for two weeks... We shall see!

You can watch all of my videos on my renewed website. Other latest and greatest videos are coming as well!

Classical guitar solo

Classical guitar duo

and

Baroque chamber music trio music

Balint Bakfark

Balint Bakfark was the first Hungarian classical composer. I like to play his lute fantasies on classical guitar of course - in transcriptions. Last year I always started my concerts with his X. Fantasy.

It is a great start for a concert but very hard to play that because of lots of the polyphonical tricks. His pieces have a kind of religious atmosphere and they are very clear in a way like an early-renaissance painting from somewhere I dont' know Antwerpen or something like that.

You can read more about Bakfark on my main site
sandormester.com.

Rebirth of sandormester.com

My oldest website has been renewed thanks to the team of WebMa. We are continiously building the site but it was in a great state to publish.

You can watch all of my videos that were done by me and my musician friends. Later you will be able to download

Visit sandormester.com!

Not for Kids

This video was done by Oximoris as well as the other non-classical video of mine called Ex.

About the "background" music. I say background music for my composition because the visuals are so strong and impressive. Oximoris (Jozsef Tasnadi) is a fantastic visual artist. He is basically a painter he did lots of things. He studied at following schools:

1980 - 1984
Highschool of Architecture,
Cluj (Romania)

1988 - 1990
"Ion Andreescu" Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Arts,
Cluj (Romania)

1990 - 1994
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Arts,
Budapest

And you can read a lot about his works at his Website. Unfortunately he is not that active on the Web as he was before.

This video is not for kids! Legally lots of paintings should say in the museums "Sexual Warning!" but somehow we do not use it.. As far as I remember Mr Tasnadi said that the basis of this clip is the first photo sequence of the world. It means that they did lots of pictures during moving so its like a movie. And the modell is a nude woman.



I learnt a lot from Jozsef Tasnadi when I was younger. We had lots of chats about philosophy of art, new ways of modern art, philosophy and relationship between music, beauty arts and literature. I remember his words a lot, he was a remarkable man of my youth, he is a fantastic artist and I miss him.

I'm not that old since I'm 33 - Christ's age - but I meant 20s years of mine...

MS3 music

This is a composition by me (MS3). Janos Vazsonyi, great saxophone player friend of mine improvised a nice meditation for my music. The visuals were done by another very good friend of mine Oximoris his name is Jozsef Tasnadi.

This clip is very important for me it was done seven years ago and we worked a lot on this project to get the best result.

John Dowland (1562 - 1626): Air

Dowland was a great lute player and composer of the renaissance age. He was English and he lived around Europe. He composed the only lute/guitar piece for four hands - for one lute of course.



This piece is called Air, the subtitle is As I went to Walshingam - I really like this subtitle since it piece is in a kind of philosophical mood when you are walking and thinking on life. You feel all right and you whistle this piece. The video was shot by Mazur as well as my Guilliani concert video.

Brussels, Hungary and classical guitar

I've just spoken to the Hungarian Institut in Brussels. The lady called Krisztina Remenyi who is responsible for art and event organizing she was studying with a classical guitar teacher that I know very well.

A great classical guitarist friend of mine Mr. Schweigert studied with that teacher as well.

I liked Brussels when I was there - especially the fantastic beer...

Concert around Europe

Mauro Guilliani was planning his European classical guitar tour that was never done. I am planning the same... Lots of us are planning the same...

I have spoken to couple of concert and event ogranizers Today in Rome, Moscow, Warsawa, Sofia, Prague and Tallin. I could not reach Delhi but I tried that again... I will have to do Bucarest and Sofia in one way.

Andreas Segovia could spread classical guitar most I think since he did hundred concerts per year in the 50's and 60's around the world. I'm doing more concerts per year. Surely smaller ones and basically in my home-country or around it. That's why I want to get other countries as well..

Mauro Guilliani: D-Major Praeludium

This video was shot years ago by a very great friend of mine called Mazur. This piece is D-Major Praeludium by Mauro Guilliani. Guilliani was a great Italian classical guitar virtuoso. He played on violincello as well and he did his concerts couple of times on these two instruments. He was born in Bisceglie and spent his youthful years in Barletta. As we can know he studied in Napoli between 1799 and 1803. Then he started his solo guitar carrier in Vienna where he became a leader of classical guitar teaching. In 1819 he had probelms with the authorities - nobody knows why - and returned to Italy. He lived in Rome between 1820 and 1823. He lived in Napoli from 1823 and died there in 8th May, 1829.

Master Guilliani




I love this piece and played a lot on my concerts. When waves of a calm and light blue ocean are moving in different moods but always in piece. It has nice harmonies and I like to play with the dinamycs, tones when the next part comes. So its a lovely classical guitar piece in Italian romantic style, enjoy that!

You can close your eye as well since its a one-camera video but I'm satisfied with the sound. I did the sound afterwork...

Romania

Ester, my girlfriend, she is a documentary film director will participate on Aristoteles Workshop in Romania organized by Arte/France. So I had to organize couple of classcial guitar concerts there. I used to plan a lot to play the guitar in Romania/Transilvania especially Bela Bartok's works. It finally can happen that is so cool!

I got in touch with a nice Irish guy called Bob Boles Yesterday via phone. He has been living in Nagyszeben/Sibiu for three years. He is a musician and painter. I could reach him with the help of Istvan Toth who is the deputy director of Hungarian Institut in Bucarest. Bob is the founder of European House of Arts in Romania. I'll play classical guitar music on literature events six times in August in Sibiu thanks to Bob. I like to be in an international artist gang. There will be two gangs: film boys and girls at the workshop and musicians, performers, designers etc. at Bob's gang. Hopefully with the film boys and girls we will be able to make guitar concert videos and/or about the gang and upload then to this blog. Anyway I'll take a camera there... According to my plans I'll stay in Sibiu for two weeks so I am looking for more gigs right now.

I am very excited...

Bob wrote me only two emails about his thoughts and I could realize that he thinks basically on the same way about our modern age we live in, art, European art etc..

Ester and me Today:



I was so enthuciastic Yesterday so I called the Hungarian Institut in Delhi as well. The phone line was terrible so I had to try it twice. The director was not there I will have to try to reach him on Monday again.

Classical and Modern

Today I had lots of conversations about modern music making and publishing with my friends. Or my business partners? I am a musician so I have friends who are my partners as well. I cannot do that without friendship...

I talked to Andreas Kemi from Stockholm via phone who is a great friend and business partner of mine. He was nice as always. Like to chat with him. We were having a chat about our private lives first then about yourspins project. Yourspins based on my invention (music software and file format) called Digimpro (Digital Improvisation). You can remix, improvise music and interact as well. My favorite is Robbie Williams latest hit She's Madonna in yourspins/Digimpro format.

As a classical guitarist it's quite exciting for me to do online music project. I like to play classical on my instrument and I like to play with Robbie Williams' song on the Net in many versions. That's what I was dreaming about it years ago.. There are couple of musicians having their songs on yourspins.com.

Then I talked to Nesha from Belgrade about our private lives then about yourspins project as well. I love Serbs! They are emotional and srtict!

I think I should do some classical guitar projects in yourspins format... Just mixing classical and modern.

Bela Bartok: Hungarian Song

Old picture of mine:




This piece is by Bela Bartok from 44 Violin Duos as well. We played it lots of times with Eva. I liked the crescendos and rythm changes of this piece. We had to practice that a lot to always be in the same mood and tempo. Playing as a classical guitar duo its like a continious pizzicato in a violin duo, trio etc. When more than two people plays pizzicato never can be in the same time... Imagine how difficult it can be to play in a guitar duo. My favorite guitar duo is Duo Assad - they are brothers..

Francisco Tarréga: Praeludium No. 3

Praeludium No. 3 by Francisco Tarréga reminds me to the Drei leichte Lieder ohne Worte für Klavier pieces by the good old Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy.

I like this short piece in its typical romantic Tarrega mood with a simple and nice melody. It is a romantic guitar piece but it has more wiener classical chord-line than romantic. This piece represents the beauty of the sound of classical guitar as well. The sound that we are living for...



The Master Tarrega

Bela Bartok: Jeering Song from 44 Violin Duos

This Bela Bartok piece from 44 Violin Duos is another great example for Bartok's musical humour. It works better played by a classical guitar duo than a violin duo I think... This short piece of Bartok reminds me to the 'Microcosmos' pieces. 'For Children' pieces sometimes have the same creative rythms.



It's easier to set up the right tempos for a Bartok piece for me as a Budapest guy than giving tempos for Tarrega pieces...

We played this piece a lot with my blonde and pretty classical guitar duo partner (Eva Antal) last year around in Hungary. Would be great to make gigs in Central-Eastern-European region (Romania, Serbia etc.) where Bartok collected the original folk music for years.

Bela Bartok: Dance from Maramaros

Bela Bartok's Dance from Maramaros (from 44 Violin Duos) seems like rock and roll dance as well as Romanian dances. Fits to the guitar and sounds really great on classical guitar duo. I loved to play that on concerts with Eva Antal - my guitar duo partner.

FoxyTunes

Many Thanks to Guy Cohen from FoxyTunes to link my Bach video.

MS3

Francisco Tarrega: Pavana

The pavane or another name is pavan was a popular dance in Europe during the Renaissance age basically in the mediterranean area. This Pavana by Francisco Tarrega is not a renaissance pavan obviously. This piece is a Spanish classical guitar music in romantic style inspired by the old ages written by the greatest genius of the Spanish guitar... Perfect rethinking of pavana style using all the possibilities of the romantic stlye and classical guitar. And you can of course feel the Spanish blood in it... I play it very often on my concerts. Listen to my (ms3) version:



See the score:

Fransisco Tarrega: Praeludio No. 5.

My teacher, my mentor is Mr. Ede Roth. He is the best. He is a fantastic guy and knows most about classical guitar literature, fingers and fingering, classical guitar technic etc. He says that he has heard this Francisco Tarrega Praeludium No. 5. in double tempo and it was the best interpretation he has ever heard... I usually play it very slow, slower than on this video shot.

I dont know... I dont really know...

... how can we decide the right Tarrega tempo from Budapest? ... anyway I like this Tarrega piece its like a Christmas song sang by angels.



And why is my artist name is MS3? I am the third Sandor in Mester family. Sandor means Alexandre and Mester means Master in HUngarian.

Bela Bartok: Mosquito Dance by MS3

I love music of Bartok! So many kind of ambients, atmospheres. I listened to the Piano concertos No. 1., No. 2. and No. 3. hundred times of each. Comparing them to Violin Quartetts, Microsmos, For Children these are another person's works.. So many ideas, such a genius! Proud to be Hungarian!

This pieces is from the 44 Vilion duos. We played the original music notes by notes - no transcription. Not that easy but you dont have to write that much since you can use the original score. This piece is full of musical humour and ideas. Classical guitar duo is a great arrangement for classical music pieces that were inspired by folk music.



Or this Dance. Complex rythm. Nice on classical guitar, isnt it?

Francisco Tarrega: Praeludium No. 2.

Another Praeludim by written by Tarrega. This is my favorite Tarrega Praeludium, I usually play that on every concert of mine. I like the other Tarrega Praeludiums as well but this one can represent all the beauties of the sound of classical guitar. This one is maybe a little bit to fast...

Georg Frederick Händel

Baroque chamber music on two classical guitars and on saxophone again. The original piece was composed by Georg Frederick Händel. Thanks to Janos Vazsonyi we tried this piece and it worked with this arrangement as well. I really like his sopranino sax playing. It was also recorded in the church from the XIII. century (at Belapatfalva). This piece was very popular in Budapest and at the countryside as well.

We did this video before noon using "natural lights" basically.



Wathcing these videos I have started to miss my baroque trio. Maybe we should try guitar, cello and sax instead two guitars and sax.

Tarrega: Praeludium No. 4.

Francisco Tarrega is my favorite romantic classical guitar composer. This is a praeludium and yes, this pieces should have been played faster.. But lets say that this is ms3's version..



We are planning another video in a nice church during the summer with Webma team. Hopefully you will get a faster version of this piece...

Evaristo Dall'abaco: Grave

To be perfectly honest I did not know Evaristo Dall'abaco at all before my friend Janos Vazsonyi gave the score to me... Or maybe I have heard about him during my school years but I did not remember.

This Italian baroque piece really fit to our repertoir. Two classical guitars with a sopranino still worked...

Adelita by Tarrega

Francisco Tarrega was born in 1852, died in 1909. He was the greatest romantic guitar composer so he had to be Spanish... His shorter pieces like 'Adelita' are the pearls of classical guitar literature.

Adelita is a 'Mazurka' with a beautiful melody. If you have heard it once you will never forget it! Anyone who has ever studied classical guitar should have this piece!

I played this marvellous Spanish guitar music in gloaming...

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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...

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

We did Jean-Philip Rameau's piece called Le Tambourin. My great musician friend Janos Vazsonyi who is the best baroque saxophonist in Hungary played an exellent improvisation at the end of the piece. Its a meditation impro but still in baroque style.

Basically I dont play French baroque music that much. I played only the chordes on my guitar and Eva played the bass. I think it was a good and practical idea playing classical guitar duo with an alto saxophone. One classical guitar was not enough to accompany the sax that's why I decided to do it with a guitar duo. And of course it was easier to me and could better enjoy Mr. Vazsonyi's saxophone playing...

We did a mysterious atmosphere in the church with candles and smoke.

Bela Bartok: Romanian Dances

My favorite Hungarian composer Bela Bartók was born in 1881 in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary and died in 1945 in the US, in New York. His music is a kind of remix of Central-Eastern European folk music... His music is strong and clear at the same time and shows perfectly the Central-European soul...

Romanian Dances contains six movements. They are simple, easy-to-listen to them for 'un-educated' people and have a very special intimate atmosphere with a great power.

We recorded Bela Bartok's Romanian Dances with my chamber music partner Eva Antal outside of the church last summer in June. Romanian Dances was transcripted for every possible classical duo arrangements so we tried it in classical guitar duo. And it works...

We played Romanian Dances around in Hunary in small villages lots of times and there were couple of concerts when small gipsy kids started to dance to it!! It was a great success!
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Luana from Brazil

A nice girl from Brazil linked my Johann Sebastian Bach: Air (BWV 1068 D-major Orchestra Suite). Its our special transcription for a baroque trio: two classical guitars and a sopraino saxophone. My chamber music partners are Janos Vazsonyi on saxophone and Eva Antal on classical guitar. It was really a great fun to play this piece in that church (in Belapatfalva) that was built in the XIII. century. there are perfect acoustics since there are no painting on the walls.

Another video of mine that is very popular in Brazil from Heitor Villa-lobos called Choros. This video was shut outside of the church. It was hot.

Scandinavian guy in Spain

Another great guy linked my youtube videos. He is Norvegian designer living in Barcelona called Lasse Johnsen!

His personal website

Music videos

Marcial Zilli

Marcial Zilli linked my youtube video his orkut page!

Thank you very much, Marcial!

Its cool that a brazilian guy likes my Villa-lobos playing.

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