Soirée Sor | Fernando Sor on a guitar by René Lacote (1839) | Patrik Kleemola, guitar

[@PatrikKleemola]

I hope you enjoy this video! I produce these music videos myself. If you wish to support my work and efforts to make more music video content in the future, the easiest way to do it is to visit www.buymeacoffee.com/patrikkleemola Thank you very much!

[@grindcorepr92]

Everything about this video screams early 1800s. the setting, the guitar, the slightly darker tuning just beautiful. As for your playing it is masterfully played yet kept very traditional. Maestro Sor himself would be proud. Bravo!!!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you for your lovely comment!

[@mickbachner]

Love the Lacote Guitar Patrik, it sounds wonderful - well it would with your fantastic playing abilities.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks a lot! 🎵🎶

[@haazk666]

So tasteful!!!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much!

[@belablackrose2967]

Such a beautiful crisp sound, thanks for posting!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you for a comment!

[@briangable08]

Beautifully played on a wonderful guitar, I listened on my phone with B O blue tooth headphones, the sound was quite amazing, thank you all involved, I'm a student again with plenty of time to practice after suffering a stroke last year, I started just to improve my brain and useless hand muscle function, and I'm pleased to say I have been improving, I have to be not disheartened by enjoying your wonderfull music I'm 79 so if I can start to learn anyone can , God Bless

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you for your comment! All the best for your journey with the guitar!

[@martinsoto8898]

Desde México 💯👍

[@PatrikKleemola]

🎶🎵👍

[@rickcoxguitarist]

Wonder full performance Patrik. No surprise there!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much! Hopefully in the program there was some suprises however... lesser known gems among the more familiar ones!

[@stephenoliver2923]

Wonderful playing and beautifully recorded. Such a pleasure to watch a performer who plays thoughtfully but without making it about them. Thank you for modeling humility!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you Stephen, for your nice words!

[@samuellarochepage]

A real pleasure to see and listen to

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks a lot!

[@lechat8100]

Merci

[@kenji3389]

What a beautiful guitar!

[@PatrikKleemola]

I agree!

[@ManuelMillandelasHeras]

Excelente.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you!

[@timmyhantoft6364]

Stellar performance! The brilliance of Sor is really shown in his smaller pieces. Kiitos!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you, Timmy!

[@sugurum5271]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@PatrikKleemola]

You're welcome 🎵🎶

[@juleswanadoo450]

Bravo !!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks!

[@AlanMcCarthyguitar]

I was thinking to myself while listening again that this is as close as it gets to what Sor himself must have sounded like , a virtuoso who knows his music and playing his music on more or less the same guitar ,

[@PatrikKleemola]

I hope so...!

[@rubenroquiero4220]

From Argentina, excellent!!.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks, Ruben!

[@Brutal_Warlord]

half an hour of heaven. thank you so much.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you for your comment! 🎵🎶

[@paohermosin]

Qué bonito me ha encantado este concierto!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Muchas gracias, Paola!

Bravo Patrick, une bien belle soirée !

[@PatrikKleemola]

Merci, Remi!

[@TimEmmerton]

Stunning all round!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank a lot!

[@tommacdonald6295]

Absolutely brilliant 👏

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks! 🎶🎵

[@josephkowhai9820]

This video certainly complements the wonderful talent that produced that beautiful guitar and composed the gorgeous music.

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@josephkowhai9820 Thank you for your beautiful comment!

[@RuiNamora]

What an exquisite trio. Sor, Lacôte and you, Patrik! Excellent choice of this little musical gems.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you so much, Rui!

[@stephenjudd-gi3is]

Thankyou.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks for dropping a comment!

[@mattelijah2615]

This is what I call music!!

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@mattelijah2615 Thank you!

[@antoninoven]

Amazing sound without nails :-)

[@PatrikKleemola]

I actually play with nails (excluding thumb), but I'm glad about the impression that I play without them!

[@hafid371]

Compositeur cher à mon cœur , servi par un interprète très raffiné ♥

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you for a beautiful feedback!

[@tolstoipie]

Thank you for doing this and for sharing it with us. It was delightful from beginning to end.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks a lot! I'm glad it engaged you enough to listen the whole thing 🎵🎶

[@christianbacon7027]

Beautiful performance

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you!

[@chaqueobjet]

Bravissimo Patrick!!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks, Pablo!

[@niceguitar6144]

Excellent interpretations

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you! 🎵🎶

[@dariofernandez3854]

Excelente intérprete de la delicadeza creada...❤️🇺🇾

[@PatrikKleemola]

Muchas gracias!

[@andresdelossantos18]

Muy bueno el video, el gran compositor Sor, interpretado conjunto guitarra de la época genera un ambiente mágico, felicitaciones por las interpretaciones 👏👏👏

[@PatrikKleemola]

Muchas gracias!

[@jmcastromattos]

❤ WONDERFUL! (Brazil)❤

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you so much! 🎶🎵

[@Nylon_and_Gut-MatteoLaurenzi]

Stupendo!!!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you!

[@vonrid1094]

Fantastic

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks!

[@RogerSullivanNOLA]

Very nice.

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@RogerSullivanNOLA Thanks!

[@arnebovarne7759]

"Эссенциальная, красивая музыка и исполнение. Игра пробуждает эмоции из забытых мест. Контемплятивно и медитативно это. Говорит моему сердцу."

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much for your comment!

[@Schufti17]

fantastic!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks!

[@PedroRuedaA]

Muchas gracias por el concierto🙏

[@PatrikKleemola]

🎶🎵

[@MrDizzyvonclutch]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INSPIRED PERFORMANCE! (And all the titles) This has several benefits, help me relax, And in so doing help me sleep well. Then inspire me so I start practicing first thing in the morning. The guitar is magnificent!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much!

[@raulescobar4496]

Hermoso, escuchar a Sor con una sonoridad que históricamente informada, trata de traernos lo que pudo hacer sido. Bellísima interpretación, por demás 🎉🎉🎉

[@PatrikKleemola]

Muchas gracias, Raúl!

[@josellorca9275]

Congratulations Patrik. Your performance is first class. The sound is, I guess, smooth like Sor's wold be esteemed. Thank you from Costa Rica🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much!

[@Maestro_Svyatoslavius]

Bravo! Beautiful! I want this guitar too )

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you!

[@Maestro_Svyatoslavius]

romantic guitar - my future dream)@@PatrikKleemola

[@sirrobinofloxley7156]

Literally moving my guitars into the living room to let them hear how they actually can sound... Outstanding stuff!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Beautiful comment, thank you!

[@sirrobinofloxley7156]

@@PatrikKleemola And they dance.

[@alabudzki74]

Absolutely gorgeous. How did you ... Get your hands on such a precious instrument? Phenomenal performance!!!!?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you! Luck and right timing is the answer to your question...

[@alabudzki74]

@@PatrikKleemola :) If I may... Does it take long to get used to an instrument like that?

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@alabudzki74 The most notable thing is that the strings are quite a bit closer to the soundboard than on a standard classical guitar. So the plucking movements of the right hand have to be more subtle.

[@alabudzki74]

@@PatrikKleemola Thank you for you kind answer. I forwarded your performance to some of my friends who are teaching classical guitar. I was also amazed at ... Hmmm I am going to call it a snare drum sound in some of theSor's pieces. I have never heard them done the way you do it. I also didn't know that Sor included sounds like that in his pieces. Very amazing. All of it. And the setting was also so refreshing. Was it a wooden church or I am mistaken? Either way, I have probable taken too much of your time. Loved it and subscribed to your channel. Thank you, Sir.

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@alabudzki74 Sor called it the trumpet sound, which he described in his Method. Only piece where he actually wrote it in the score is in the end of Sérénade op. 37. In one concert in Paris the reviewer wrote just one sentence to describe Sor's performance: "Sor's guitar replaced the whole orchestra".

[@wayfarer279]

Extraordinario escuchar a Sor de modo magistral en tan bello instrumento. Saludos.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Muchas gracias!

[@jimdandy7083]

We all played Sor on standard classical guitars. They sounded just fine--until you heard them played correctly on a period instrument. I don't know that I've heard better than this. Bravo as well for being one of the rare few who can keep a tempo.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you so much for such an inspiring comment!

[@euhdink4501]

Good remark about keeping the tempo. It is shown that Sor's contemporaries and later on, the composers didn't want rubato and other free-style tempo changes.

[@noonster55]

Such a unique looking guitar. Sounds wonderful. Looks are amazing.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks a lot!

[@epameinondaspapamichail9896]

Congratulation! To you and the composer F Sor!!!!

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@epameinondaspapamichail9896 Thanks!

[@raulcalderonbird]

Very very beautiful.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you, Raúl!

[@pantelismisikos9023]

Congratulations very nice video and amazing playing!!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much!

[@ИгорьГригорьев-з8п]

Прекрасное исполнение и атмосфера концерта! Великолепный красивый инструмент! Получил большое удовольствие. Спасибо!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you for your comment!

[@brunisolta]

Sounds beautiful 💓

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you! Lacote 🎵🎶

[@philippsguitarchannel2772]

Fantastic playing!

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@philippsguitarchannel2772 Thank you! 🎶

[@umovilac]

Ufff... una hermosura. Gracias por compartir❤

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks @umovilac!

[@robertotorres5770]

Que trabalho maravilhoso! Obrigado.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much!

[@froylanrg]

Greetings from Mexico. It's the first time I hear music from Sor. And let me tell you, I'm amazed. When listening to this beautiful music I lose track of time and space. Thank you so much for all the effort you and your partners have put on making this video. Congratulations!

[@PatrikKleemola]

I'm happy to read your comment, thank you!

[@Adelbertdemaesschalck]

you play it all with a very high feeling and mastership. I have made a subscription on your channel.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much! 🙏🎶🎵

[@rudolphpyatt4833]

Beautifully done, and the instrument itself is remarkable.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you, and yes it's wonderful...

[@davidkrupka536]

This is simply marvellous, Patrik. Your performance is of course outstanding (it always is!) but your production collaborator also deserves a word of congratulations for his fine work. This is one best guitar videos I've ever seen. And the Lacote guitar is magnificent - you are privileged indeed to have such an instrument in your possession! This is surely how Sor's music is meant to sound - quiet and reflective, conceived not for the concert hall, but for the intimacy of the salon. Thank you for sharing this with your appreciative audience!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you so much for your beautiful words!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Tuomas Kourula has done great job here and I warmly recommend to check out Turku Early Music KZbin channel were you can see more his recent work with nice performances: www.youtube.com/@TurkuEarlyMusic

[@davidkrupka536]

@@PatrikKleemola Thanks for directing me to Tuomas's channel. He is certainly much more than 'just' a talented videographer! It looks like the classical guitar (and its historical antecedents) are very well represented in Turku.

[@johnsaldivar2619]

Really nice ! I love the first work Andante (from the old Segovia Mexicana LP) and Op29 No24 most . No microphones appear really close to the sound hole so it must be projecting a good sound! Dr. Brooks knows his work!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks John!

[@pepenavarr691]

Que bello suena

[@PatrikKleemola]

Gracias!

[@unwrought9757]

Thank you for your wonderful work, sir.I have never been quite a fan of the classical guitar, although I more or less play it too. Nevertheless, I happened to own an old guitar of similar age. However, mine was not made by such a famous luthier. And all those old instruments are priceless, and all of them deserve the same respect since all of them have made it through centuries having lived rich and adventurous lives. No matter how good they are compared to each other, no matter how pristine or scratched they are, all of them are sisters. You play wonderfully and your guitar is a miracle. Yet most of all I love its stylish case! Hyvää päivää ja kiitos! (I was born in Finland)

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you for your lovely comment!

[@ericphillips7057]

I am simply in heaven listening to and watching this video! It must be such a joy to be able to play Sor's music so well and on such an instrument. Thank you so much for sharing that joy with us here on KZbin. Watching the instrument go back in its case at the end actually made me feel a little sad. 🥲

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you Eric for your beautiful comment! The magnificent Fantaisie Élégiaque op. 59 was Sor's last grand concert work for solo guitar after which he published only the collection of easy lessons op. 60, of which the last piece in this video is the last one. Op. 60 was published 1837, the same year his only daughter suddenly died, I feel this last piece with harmonics is indeed a lullaby...

[@AlanMcCarthyguitar]

Is it possible Sor held or even played this instrument?? Must be such a treat for you to own it , really your playing and commitment to Sor s music fully deserves it

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@AlanMcCarthyguitar well we don't know exactly when in 1839 the guitar was finished and Sor died in July. It was a special model with special decorations and expecially the tuning locks reveals this was precious model. In fictional story Sor could have held this instrument on his deathbed...maybe he could have!

[@davidkrupka536]

Eric - listening to Patrik's beautiful performance here, I smiled, recalling the fellow in the TB forum who admonished us for imagining that Sor was anything other than a second-rate hack!

[@davidkrupka536]

@@PatrikKleemola I've never thought of this little piece in that light, Patrik, but I think you may well be right about the circumstances of its composition. Sor's daughter was, I remember reading, a promising young guitarist, much doted upon by her father. (Sor, a single parent, is said never to have recovered from the loss of his only child. ) A tender lullaby as the composer's final word is surely an apt, if poignant, ending to his remarkable story.

[@larsfrandsen2501]

Beautiful job, Patrik! And brave to produce and keep the brass sounds in the way Sor intended and described them. Many would mistakenly think those brassy effects ‘bad’ sounds.

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks, Lars! It was often described that Sor produced the whole orchestra with his guitar playing. I'm sure he added a pizzicato here and brass sound there...

[@SVETILORUSSKOIMUZIKI]

Wonderful 😎😎👌👌

[@PatrikKleemola]

Cheers!

[@karlmichelson]

Congratulations Patrik, this surely is the best video you have produced so far. Beautiful location, lighting, picture, GUITAR(!) and last but not least your playing. Thank you!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much for your comment, Karl!

[@AlanMcCarthyguitar]

Super video Patrik ! I love Sor and your performances of him ! I was thinking of buying an Altamira historical guitar , they have a Stauffer copy and a Sor III Lacote copy , the sound of these romantic guitars is so beautiful and unique

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks a lot! I'm sure you'd be inspired to play this repertoire with a period instrument or a modern copy.

[@AlanMcCarthyguitar]

Indeed , a good modern copy is sufficient for keen amateur like me too I think , I couldn’t justify more than 3000 euro really

[@epameinondaspapamichail9896]

Congratulations! Fernando Sor is great composer and you are playing his great music !!!You remind us that guitar would not exist without Sor s compositions!!!!!!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you very much!

[@manuelymanuel3471]

Maravilloso. ¿Afinación a 415 o 432 Hz?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Gracias! 415Hz

[@antoninoven]

Well Patrik !!! Very beautiful performance . Only the sound of the bass strings is a little soft .... Could you switch up these frequences in the equalizer when you make a video ? Good luck Patrik !!! :-)

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks, the approach has been to capture the sound of Lacote as naturally as possible.

[@MarcoMarco-cc6zv]

It´s the Aquila Ambra bass strings. They sound like this. I like it. Nothing wrong with the recording.

[@ClassicalGuitarMusings]

Guitar virtuoso

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks! 🎵🎶

[@gustavoadolfosanchezhurtad1412]

Excellent 👏

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@gustavoadolfosanchezhurtad1412 Thanks! 🎶

[@StevenBornfeld]

Lovely playing, and wonderful to hear this on a Lacote. Do you know how much restoration work was necessary to get it in this beautiful condition?

[@StevenBornfeld]

I see now that this is in "original condition"--amazing!

[@PatrikKleemola]

@@StevenBornfeld Yes it is amazing, as I wrote somewhere else that I have guitars made for me that are now in worse condition... do my best to look after it well!

[@aaronmendez372]

Such skill, artistry, and dedication. Are Aquila Corde strings used? If so, which set?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you so much! I used Aquila's Ambra 800 nylgut set, after my experiments with real gut sets were not satisfactory. However, I'll keep experimenting more with gut strings, and perhaps in future I'll use them on a recording.

[@ECABEW]

Hi. Nice playing. Who makes this instrument? Is it available for purchase somewhere?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks! It's by René Lacote from 1839. I wish there more of them available but they are quite rare by now...

[@bruceboome]

Lovely. I noticed that the guitar is to Eb. Is this because it's deemed the highest it's safe to tune such an old instrument?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Yes, you're right. And that was the custom in the early 19th century as well.

[@rosalindazetina9362]

❤❤❤

[@PatrikKleemola]

🎵🎶

[@Guitarbox44]

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

[@PatrikKleemola]

🎶🎵

[@tony89718]

Great concert! Would love to hear the same pieces played in a standard concert Classical Guitar to compare and contrast them. Although I am familiar with Lacote guitars, but not the scale length. Can you tell us what it is?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you! Yes it would be an interesting comparison, I might do a video where I play one work on different instruments. Scale lenght is 630mm.

[@nunomendes6988]

Outstanding. Such a wonderful surprise! Can I ask you 2 things? These 19th century guitars have the same e minor tuning as the modern ones? What strings do you use? Thank you

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks! Yes, the scordatura is the standard EADGBE, but it's tuned down about half step (A=415Hz). I used here Ambra 800 by Aguila.

[@frankytumbuan4493]

mantap

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks!

[@thegeetarmann]

👏👏👏

[@PatrikKleemola]

👍🎶🎵

[@metanoia2008]

🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

[@PatrikKleemola]

🎵🎶

[@RunarKjeldsberg]

Beautiful playing and a wonderful video!! But how did you manage to hide the microphones from the camera?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you, Runar! For your question: that's what Tuomas Kourula is able to do... ;)

[@TristanBellerive]

Your playing is beautiful. It looks as if you seldom use the 'a' finger which I believe is very much in keeping with Fernando Sor's right hand technique. Are you using nails or flesh? A combination?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thank you! It's a combination, I have nails but on thumb my angle of attack is such that the nail doesn't touch the string. So it's very much how Aguado ended up playing after the influence from Sor. I have approached Sor right hand technique (Sor only once gave a right hand fingerings in any of his pieces, Op. 35 No. 19, included on this video), which means that thumb is much more active while "a" finger is used seldom. Sor's method gives us some idea how he used the right hand.

[@TristanBellerive]

@@PatrikKleemola Very interesting. I am fascinated by Fernando Sor. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and superb playing.

[@mickbachner]

Does anyone know what the white bindings and sides of the fretboard are made from?

[@carlosmanueldiaz531]

It seems to be Fernando Sor played without nails until he met Dionisio Aguado at the Favart hotel in Paris but to Sor don't like the nails sound. Congratulations for your job!

[@PatrikKleemola]

Thanks!

[@tuomolaine2764]

Sain synttärilahjaksi kitaran 16v .Viljo Immosen kitarakoulun sekä af Geijerstamin ja Rörbyn 1. kitarakirjan jälkeen kahlasin läpi Sorin 20 Ausgewählte Menuette. Siihen meni vähän päälle 2 kk. Siitä on jo yli 50 v mutta Sor on edelleen nro 1. Hyvänä kakkosena tällä hetkellä: Agustin Barrios Mangore...

[@PatrikKleemola]

Sorin musiikki on osoittanut kestävän hyvin aikaa. Itselläni Sorin soittaminen varhaisromantiikan ajan kitaralla ja nyttemmin vielä Lacoten soittimella on tuonut säveltäjän musiikin vielä lähemmäksi.

[@MrDizzyvonclutch]

18:30 I feel like that’s the theme song for Simple Simon. Something I couldn’t wait to see after coming home from school when I was a little kid…

[@olewetdog6254]

What is it like to play that guitar? Is it easy or difficult to play?

[@PatrikKleemola]

Very natural and easy, when one gets used to it.

[@piptar1996]

I wonder if the maker of that instrument had your legs apart stance in mind!?

[@RedandGoldUntilamDeadandCold]

great. However, we realize that this instrument provides nothing more than the Torres or Arias model. I play on a Maugin myself, we don't win anything objectively. La réalité est parfois difficile à accepter.

[@PatrikKleemola]

This is a sound of an era with this Lacote. Torres and Arias of course developed the instrument further, and that's another story.

[@saradamsmc]

A little too much rubato but otherwise amazing

[@PatrikKleemola]

Cheers!

[@johnwayne8114]

Good performance, too bad you put a billion ads, even before starting and interrupting throughout. Guess romantic guitar doesn't pay enough. You've got my dislike solely for that