BALKAN DANCE 2 GREGORIADOU guitar

Smaro Gregoriadou: reinventing guitar! is the title of Smaro's new cd work released by DELOS INTERNATIONAL in July 2009, which also includes her composition: Balkan Dances for solo guitar. SMARO GREGORIADOU interprets Baroque, Romantic and Contemporary music on three guitars different in type, number and material of strings, timbre and tunings (recording premieres). They feature Kertsopoulos Æsthetics (guitars, strings, acoustic applications of evolved specifications), a thorough research on history and aesthetics of guitar involving numerous suggestions on interpretation of old and new guitar repertoire, accomplished by Greek guitarist and guitar-maker Yorgos Kertsopoulos. Participating in the effort to revive the aesthetic experience of different historical forms of guitar, Smaro Gregoriadou projects on an international scale the need for a re-definition of the instruments sound and technique. This yields an interpretive perspective that stands as the nucleus of her art: reinventing guitar! Instruments of the cd include: 1.Triple-double-single course guitar (right-hand pedal) in re-entrant tuning - first world recording 2.Single-stringed guitar in ordinary or low tunings with right-hand pedal 3.Single-stringed high-tuned guitar with right-hand/movable back pedals and scalloped fingerboard, with which this Balkan Dance is herewith played. HISTORIC EVIDENCE: In 1948 Andres Segovia introduced the nylon string aesthetic of A.Augustine. The classical and flamenco guitar ...