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Hardly no other ruler of the classic nylon string combines brilliant
classic technique as well as South and North American influences that
highly artistic and with feeling and is able enough to play his gypsy
heritage that classy up to world language. Fine arts of solo guitar (...) Ferenc Snétberger proves to be a musical
cosmopolitan, a mediator of multi-cultural values. ... a fascinating world of sounds standing between classic, jazz and
folklore without seeming "rootless" or "electic". (...) Snétberger formulates
a multi-cultural world language that deserves its name: his music is worldly
and open and individual at the same time. (...) Solo guitar can't be any
nicer.
An evening of fragile acoustic moments which charm unfolds cautiously
but effectively. There's a special guitarist (...) His name: Ferenc Snétberger. His work
is far from common categories and clichés. When he's playing jazz it is jazz, when he's playing Latin it is Latin
- at times also together - it doesn't matter, if he is solo or with a
band. (...) Unlike many other tries of this kind the crossover works. The musicians' obsession warmed up everybody this evening. He performed the balanced way between classical guitar literature, improvised
jazz and eastern folklore on six nylon strings. (...) Vivacious, passionate
accords change with virtuoso string runs in a way a human being has to
be lent a third hand. (...) his pulse is the music of the new Brazil, the Bossa Nova, (...)
Such rarely excellent integration of traditional jazz improvisation into
the scope of classical and folkloristic formed guitar music as well as
the virtuoso mastery of even unusual techniques of rhythm just increases
the already filled credit side of Ferenc Snétberger's guitaristic perfection.
The Hungarian living in Berlin concentrates on the acquirement of differential
sound spectrums and well-balanced harmonies. At present he is one of the
best European acoustic guitarists. A grandiose technician on nylon strings who foist fast runs, tremolo
and other great feat on casually and who impresses every guitar fan by
atmospheric finesse. A talented improviser who can display intensity and passion at a quiet
volume. Snétberger always finds the right tone with his pieces without imitating. That what he's playing is jazz, is Brazil - just listen to his "Manha
De Carnaval" (vulgo: "Orfeo Negro") with its big distancing. He knows
a great deal about it. It's plain to see at his "Variation", dedicated
to Django. An exquisite-modern answer to the master's "Nuages". Snétberger's
big art is the dialogue between today and yesterday, is synthesis. Great
guitar music. Rarely, if ever, one single guitarist managed to mature a musical language
inside himself that knows how to create a guitaristic idiom in an exemplary
pure, unusually tasteful and refined way that takes "eastern" folklore,
jazz and classic expression and technique to a new synthesis. |
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