S1E6: Jorge Caballero | The tonebase Classical Guitar Podcast
A couple months ago, we launched the tonebase Classical Guitar Podcast with David Steinhardt. If you haven’t heard already, find out more about it here:
In the latest episode, David is joined by Peruvian guitarist Jorge Caballero for a discussion on guitar repertoire and how he mentally and physically manages to play marathon orchestral arrangements such as Kazuhito Yamashita’s version of Pictures at an Exhibition.
On the topic of Mussorgsky, Jorge shares how he began working on this piece when he was a child — just 12 years old!
In addition, Jorge discusses his own arrangements of J.S. Bach’s Partitas and why he still chooses to play the Chaconne not only note-for-note, but finger-for-finger exactly like Segovia.
About the artist: Jorge Caballero is a winner of the prestigious Naumburg Award, an honor that is comparable to the Pulitzer Prize for musicians. He is widely known for his incredible performance feats of orchestral pieces by composers such as Mussorgsky, Dvorak, and Korsakov. Caballero is a native of Peru where he grew up in a musical family, his mother being a famous singer in his home country.
Get inside the mind of this insightful artist with this week’s episode — now available below, or wherever you listen to podcasts!
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