No, not gibson.

@@grahambop Ok thanks , approximately just behind the Jag at 0.50 , in a house on the left , was Col and Mrs Gibson and their son Charles ,in the late '50s . . . .the Colonel had a Jag , leather upholstry etc and i was in it a couple of times . As the vid started right out side their house i wondered if it was a Gibson film . . . 😄

Thanks!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks!

Thanks! I just watched your Bach Invention no. 1, very nice!

Interestingly, so did my grandmother and her de facto partner. In both 1937 electoral rolls and the 1939 Collection they are shown as resident at 53 Lansdowne Road, which was a boarding house at the outbreak of WW II. By 1942 they had moved to 56 Oval Road, just off Cherry Orchard Road down beside the east of East Croydon station. Both eventually died there, he in 1944 aged 70, she in 1973 aged 77.

He was a genius.

I think it’s usually called ‘quoting’. Yes Jim does it a lot, often quite humorously.

I make absolutely no claim to being a lutenist, yet I *do* teach music’s “sister-art,” POETRY, from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and am familiar with much of the great lute compositions from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth to the lute accompaniments of the late Baroque and early 18th century. I also have a decent library of lute music…. I have to say, martyheresniak5203, that though I have no doubt at all that you play this remarkable instrument beautifully, and I *believe* you when you claim to be familiar with “contemporary performance styles” on the lute and related instruments such as the oud and theorbo, *I* don’t hear any “stiltedness,” or “pedantic/didactic quality to Bream’s playing. Is it that Bream always did his absolute best-as in his charming performance of The Earl of Essex’s Galliard for Queen Elizabeth I--does what you are calling the “pedantic” quality of his playing inhere within his determination to capture the spirit of the age from which the composition he is performing hails? Or does it have to do with Bream’s seeming at times quite “textual,” whereas lute performances were originally both “notational” *and* improvisational, in which the lutenist “realised” chordal accompaniments? I was simply intrigued by your comment--as I have always been an admirer of Bream, and had never heard anyone lay the charge of being “pedantic” at his door before. Would it be possible for you to say more with concrete examples to illustrate your point, possibly?

@@MrMalvolio29 I meant exactly what I said. Stilted as in his rhythms are preciously exact and pedantic as in I feel nothing from his playing: it seems very rote, this-is-how-it-goes, let-me-show-you-how dry. I much prefer the more recent interpretations of Smith or more so Dunford. Bream brought the lute out of historical curiosity and knocked the dust off, but more recent players have oiled the wood and made it all sound much less creaky.