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David Russell: Of Guitars and Pingpong Balls
June 15, 2008 - The sounds of Scotland come honestly to guitarist David Russell, but so do the sounds of Spain. Russell's parents were Scottish artists, bohemians who traveled around in a camper van. When Russell was a kid, they moved to Spain, to a village of 800 people on the island of Minorca. These days, the town isn't much bigger — about 1,200 people — but now there's an avenue named for its best-known classical guitarist. They call it "Avinguda David Russell." Russell's way with a guitar has also gotten his name on marquees around the world, and on a 2005 Grammy award for his CD Aire Latino. His new recording is titled Air on a G String. Russell unpacked his guitar in NPR's studio to play a little and talk about his music. When he was a kid, Russell's first lessons came from his father, an amateur guitarist who couldn't read music, but picked up tunes by ear. At the time, legendary guitarist Andres Segovia still loomed over anyone who played classical guitar. "I tried to do everything he could do," Russell says. "With two notes, Segovia could give you the chills — wonderful vibrato, beautiful tone. So I spent hours trying to imitate some of his phrases." Russell developed his own sound — or sounds might be more accurate. For the baroque music featured on his new CD, Russell says the tone must be straightforward, clean and bright. But when he plays music from South America, he creates a more velvety and sometimes huskier sound. It's all in the way he plucks the strings. Russell's new CD features music by J.S. Bach and some of his contemporaries, such as the little-known Jacques de Saint-Luc. Russell says his approach to the two composers couldn't be more different. "If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple." Whether he's playing baroque music or Brazilian tunes, Russell carries with him a special first-aid kit. It includes a nail file, clippers and superglue, as well as a pingpong ball or two. "I pluck with my fingernails," Russell says. "If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a pingpong ball. I slip it under my own nail, and the consistency of a three-star ball is almost exactly the same consistency as a fingernail." Russell also notes that he's found a solution for those disastrous times, when he's on tour and stuck in a hotel room without a bottle opener for his beer. He's devised a way to pop off the bottle cap, using part of the little metal folding stool that guitarists use to rest their foot in performance. Perhaps some of his parents' old-school bohemian lifestyle has finally caught up with David Russell. David Russell: Scottish Guitarist, Spanish Accent April 12, 2006 - Guitarist David Russell visits Studio 4A to chat with Lisa Simeone and play a bit of guitar. He offers tips on memorizing music and performs three pieces with a Latin influence: "Alms for the Love of God" by Augustín Barrios, the "Spanish Dance No. 5" by Granados, and "If She Asks" by Dilermando Reis. David Russell: 'Reflections of Spain' May 9, 2002 - Tom Manoff has a review of the CD Reflections of Spain, featuring Spanish music for guitar, played by David Russell. Manoff thinks Russell — who is Scottish, not Spanish — plays with a natural elegance, and is passionate but never over the top.
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Bach: 'Air on a G String' (From Suite No. 3) Weiss: 'Allegro' (from Sonata No. 22) Saint-Luc: 'Allemande' (from Suite in D) Barrios: 'Alms for the Love of http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=91391121&m=91397413 Following the contours of David Russell's delightful Scottish brogue is almost like listening to someone sing. But the way Russell sings best is with his guitar. For the past dozen years or more, he's been a leading figure in the classical guitar world. Russell records an album every year, holds down a hefty touring schedule and teaches master classes, all while cultivating a distinctively transparent and lyrical sound. Indeed, part of Russell's "sound" is actually silence. "The guitar can be a very noisy instrument," he says. So Russell has perfected his technique, working tirelessly on fingerings that eliminate those squeaky sounds of fingers sliding over frets. Russell got his Scottish accent and his love of the guitar from his parents. He was born in Glasgow, but moved to Minorca in Spain as a child, when his artistic parents loaded up the van and headed for warmer climes. His first lessons were from his father, an amateur guitarist and full-time painter. Russell says that after a while, he realized he could play better than his dad, and that's when he decided "to become the guitarist in the family." On tour in support of his new album, Sonidos Latinos, Russell dropped by the NPR Music offices to play a few classics of the guitar repertoire. Listen to the exquisite rippled notes as they spin by in his first piece by Barrios, while in Couperin's "Les Silvains," two separate melodies intertwine like clockwork. And then there's Russell's signature warm tone in Albeniz's "Granada," the classic which capped off the concert.
Video: Watch David Russell Play At NPR Music's Office
David Russell's latest album explores the guitar sounds of Latin America.
April 21, 2010
David Russell is one of the most prolific — and acclaimed — classical guitarists performing today. He records about an album a year and tours the world regularly. He's received too many awards to mention. He's even had a concert hall and a street named for him in Spain, where he lives.
The country has embraced the Scots-born musician and he, in turn, has drawn a lot of inspiration for his music from Spanish culture. Yet he wound up there almost by accident.
"My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland," Russell told Robert Siegel. "So when I was about 5 or 6, they loaded us into a van and we went to Spain, and we ended up living in Minorca purely by chance actually — because they really wanted to go to Ibiza because Ibiza was famous as a kind of artistic colony. But the boat wouldn't take our van. But the Minorcan one did. So we ended up there."
The Guitar Was No Accident
"My father is an amateur guitarist — and he still plays. He's 86 and he still loves it. And he was my first teacher, of course, when I was a kid," says Russell, whose father did try to interest him in painting. "My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him — the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.' "
Russell went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was eventually named a fellow in 1997. The 56 year-old guitarist has recorded 25 albums since the beginning of his career — about one a year for the past 15 or so years.
For each one, he concentrates on one composer: Bach, Giuliani, Rodrigo, Barrios — or one style: Baroque, Renaissance, even a CD of Celtic music.
His latest, Sonidos Latinos, features guitar music from Latin America. As with all of his other projects, Russell spent a year immersing himself in the music and culture of his chosen subject.
Immersion
"The nice thing about making one style, really, is I can delve into that style a whole year," Russell says. "So when I arrive to the studio to make my recording, which is usually just a couple of days — very little time, at least I feel relatively confident that I know what I'm going to do. At least you think you're doing the right thing by the end of those many months. And, in some ways, to be convincing in your recording, you have to be convinced yourself. Even if you're wrong, if you're convincing, then you're right in a certain way."
So Russell reads about his subject; talks to composers who are still living; and listens to recordings. That thematic approach doesn't always work for a concert, where Russell says it's nicer to have a variety of styles.
To prepare for his latest recording, he listened to a lot of folk music from Latin America — because he says that's often the source material for composers from those countries.
"In some ways it's in that gray area of where's the edge of classical music? And where's the beginning of pure folk music? It really does sit at the edge," he says. "The sort of things that the classical players are not very good at — and many of the folk players are really good at — [are] certain rhythm elements. I can't really completely achieve it but enough, perhaps, to put a taste of that into the pieces I'm playing."
The 'Magic' Of The Music
Russell is, however, very careful about trying to get the cleanest sound out of his guitar — none of the string squeaks and fret buzzes that give so much of folk music its human element.
"I really like to hide all of those things. I mean that's a little bit like wearing a really nice suit. I don't want people to know my underwear," Russell says with a laugh. "It's not really to hide the human element. It's more that I want people to be able to achieve the magic feeling of the music. And unfortunately those little human elements often just bring you back down to earth with a thump."
But, for example, when we hear a musician breathing during a recording, it helps us see the musician performing. Russell concedes that's one way of enjoying the performance.
But, he says, "I find sometimes the breathing and the sniffing and things sometimes make me see them suffering," he says. "Because I know that I make more noise when I'm suffering. Whereas, if the person is breathing comfortably and enjoying the music, I know I don't make any noise when I'm in that state."
And David Russell seems to be enjoying the music most of the time.
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Hector Ayala: 'Guarania'http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=126166755&m=126166273
Hector Ayala: 'Gato Y Malambo'
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Armando Neves: 'Choro No. 2'视听：
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Armando Neves: 'Valsa No. 3'The Classical Guitar Perfection of David Russell Hear Russell Perform and Discuss His Music http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?mediaURL=/pt/20040805_pt_russell&NPRMediaPref=RM Guitarist David Russell and his wife Maria. August 5, 2004 - Guitarist David Russell recently stopped by NPR to perform live in Studio 4A and chat with NPR's Lisa Simeone. The Scottish-born artist, one of the leading guitarists on the classical music curcuit, has released nine CDs on the Telarc label and tours extensively. Russell performs four pieces: "Alms for the Love of God by Paraguayan composer Augustin Barrios (1885-1944); Dance No. 5 by Enrique Granados (1867-1916); "Se Ella Preguntar" by Brazilian composer Dilermando Reis (1916-1977) and "Spanish Serenade" Joaquin Malats (1872-1912). |
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