Fugue BWV998 Bach Gregoriadou High-tuned guitar

Originally for lute & harpsichord, this Fugue is transcribed and interpreted by Smaro Gregoriadou on high-tuned guitar with scalloped fingerboard and brilliant timbre, representing Kertsopoulos Aesthetics*. Live in Athens, ParnassosConcert Hall, 31/1/98. *KERTSOPOULOS AESTHETICS: Guitars, strings, acoustic applications of evolved specifications, a 30-year research on history and æsthetics of guitar, accomplished by Greek guitarist-maker Yorgos Kertsopoulos and involving numerous suggestions on interpretation of old and new guitar repertoire, as well as transcriptions from other instruments to guitar. Since Æsthetics' first presentation in Athens, 1994, by their inventor, numerous astonishing innovations have enriched inventive guitarist's sound, recreating 500-years of beautiful guitar tradition: high-pitched, transitive and re-entrant tunings up an octave higher than the ordinary, double and triple-course stringing, tone-colour's diversity, access to unexplored tonalities, pedal mechanisms! HISTORIC EVIDENCE: In 1948 Andres Segovia introduced the nylon string aesthetic of A.Augustine. The classical and flamenco guitar enjoys this aesthetic for more than sixty years and guitarists of such a worldwide prestige such as Julian Bream, John Williams, Alirio Diaz, Abel Carlevaro, Dimitri Fampas, Gerasimos Miliaresis, the Romero family, C.Parkening, A.Lagoya, I.Presti, L.Almeida, Evangelos & Liza, C.Kotsiolis, Roberto Aussel, R.Dyens, Paul Galbraith, Paco de Lucia, P.Pena, C ...