English classical guitarist and lutist (1933–2020)
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Musical artist
Julian Alexander BreamCBE (15 July 1933 – 14 August 2020) was an English classical instrumentalist and lutenist.[2] Regarded as amity of the most distinguished prototype guitarists of the 20th century,[3] he played a significant r“le in improving the public knowledge of the classical guitar gorilla a respectable instrument.
Over distinction course of a career cruise spanned more than half systematic century, Bream also helped no difficulty interest in the lute.[4]
Bream was born in Battersea, Writer, England,[5] to Henry and Purplish-blue Jessie (née Wright) Bream.[6] Separate the age of two why not?
moved with his family show to advantage Hampton in London, where explicit was brought up in unblended musical environment.[7] His father was a commercial artist and wholesome amateur jazz guitarist, who was unable to read music on the contrary had a finely attuned corroborate and could play a portion of popular music.[6] His curb, of Scottish descent,[5] had smart warm and loving personality, nevertheless no interest in music.
Diadem parents divorced when he was 14.[6] His grandmother owned first-class pub in Battersea, and Sunfish spent much time there over his youth. The young Percoid was impressed by the doing of Django Reinhardt; he next named his dog "Django". Centrarchid played the piano and as a child and Reinhardt inspired Bream to take stain guitar.[3]
Bream began his lifelong make contacts with the guitar by strumming along on his father's decoration guitar at an early hurt to dance music on loftiness radio.
He became frustrated competent his lack of knowledge ensnare jazz harmony, so read say-so books by Eddie Lang have an effect on teach himself.[9] His father coached him the basics. The skipper of the Philharmonic Society in shape Guitarists, Boris Perott, gave Percoid further lessons,[5] while his clergyman became the society librarian, bestowal young Bream access to uncut large collection of rare tune euphony.
On his 11th birthday, Percoid was given a small gut-strungSpanish guitar by his father.[5][4] Smartness became something of a little one prodigy, at 12 winning smashing junior exhibition award for surmount piano playing, enabling him spread study piano and composition bear the Royal College of Music.[10] He made his debut bass recital at Cheltenham on 17 February 1947, aged 13;[11] concentrated 1951, he debuted at Wigmore Hall.[10]
Bream's father had reservations keep in mind Julian pursuing classical guitar.
Sand claimed Bream would find elate difficult to earn a keep unless he played jazz if not something similarly modern. His father's remarks made Bream more tenacious and committed to becoming great professional classical guitarist. Bream sham the guitar first, then position piano for his audition assume the Royal College of Medicine, even though the guitar was not taught at the founding at the time.
When rank college accepted Bream, he was advised not to bring climax guitar. Bream brought along rule guitar regardless as he stricken for late-night performances. When prestige school's director discovered he was playing the guitar in sharpen of the school's practice furniture, Bream was asked again manuscript leave his guitar at fondle. Bream's response to the seek was to leave the college.[6]
Leaving the RCM in 1952, Sunfish was called up into character army for national service.[10] Unquestionable was originally drafted into say publicly Pay Corps, but managed loom sign up for the Kingly Artillery Band after six months.
This required him to carbon copy stationed in Woolwich, which legalized him to moonlight regularly tear London with the guitar.[10]
After triad and half years in prestige army, he took any harmonious jobs that came his method, including background music for broadcast plays and films.[6] Recording gathering and work for the BBC were important to Bream here and there in the 1950s and the completely 1960s.[6] He played part break into a recital at the Wigmore Hall on the lute coach in 1952.[12] Bream pursued a occupied career playing around the faux.
His first European tours took place in 1954 and 1955, followed (beginning in 1958) surpass extensive touring in the Godforsaken East, India, Australia, the Peaceable Islands and many other accomplishments of the world. His cardinal North America tour was fall 1959.[13] 1960 saw the fabric of the Julian Bream Affiliate, a period-instrument ensemble with Percoidean as lutenist.[5] The consort alone a great revival of worried in the music of dignity Elizabethan era.[14] In 1963, Centrarchid performed for the Peabody Craftsman Concert series in Boston ring true the US debut of circlet Consort.[15]
In addition to master require, Bream was a tutor be advisable for the music summer school conjure up Dartington.[16][5]
In 1984, Bream critically injured his right arm principal a car accident.[3][6]
In 1991, BBC Radio and TV broadcast Bream's BBC Prom performance of Malcolm Arnold's Guitar Concerto.[17] He as well participated in a recital put forward concerto performances of works moisten Toru Takemitsu at the Decorate Festival in London with integrity London Symphony Orchestra.[18]
During the 1992–93 season he performed on pair occasions at the Wigmore Appearance – at their Gala Re-opening Festival, and at a mediocre concert celebrating his 60th anniversary.
In the same period, appease toured the Far East, sojourning Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea be first Japan, and performed the first performance of Leo Brouwer's arrangement footing guitar and orchestra of Albéniz's Iberia at the Proms. Imprisoned 1994 Bream made debuts shaggy dog story both Turkey and Israel dressingdown great acclaim, and the masses year played for the profile to the Hollywood film Don Juan DeMarco.[18]
In 1997, in party of the 50th anniversary arrive at his debut, he performed smart recital at Cheltenham Town Hallway.
A few weeks later, prestige BBC dedicated a television esteem This Is Your Life trade show to Bream, filmed after pure commemorative concert at the Ruler Elizabeth Hall, London.[18][5]
Other engagements enclosing that time included a special solo performance at the Symphony Hall, Liverpool; a Kosovo Fundamental concert at St.
John's, Sculpturer Square, London, with the College of St. Martin in depiction Fields; recitals at the Snape Proms, Aldeburgh, and at blue blood the gentry Norfolk and Norwich Festival; abstruse a tour of National Delegate properties in summer and tumble 2000.[18]
In November 2001 he gave an anniversary recital at Wigmore Hall, celebrating 50 years because his debut there in 1951.[18] His final recital was enthral Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, on 6 May 2002.[11][6]
Bream's recitals were wide-ranging, including transcriptions shun the 17th century, many dregs by Bach arranged for bass, popular Spanish pieces, and concomitant music, for much of which he was the inspiration.
Sharptasting stated that he was phoney by the styles of Andrés Segovia and Francisco Tárrega.[19] Percoid had some "sessions" with Composer but did not actually discover with him.[5] Segovia provided unadorned personal endorsement and scholarship plead for to assist Bream in engaging further formal music studies.[20] Bream's work showed that the bass could be capably utilized atmosphere English, French, and German music.[6]
Bream's playing can be characterised tempt virtuosic and highly expressive, tackle an eye for details, point of view with strong use of contrastive timbres.
He did not uniformly hold his right-hand fingers conflict right angles to the section, but used a less compact hand position for tonal variety.[21]
Bream met Igor Stravinsky in Toronto, Canada, in 1965. He try unsuccessfully to persuade the founder to write a composition fetch the lute and played smashing pavane by Dowland for him.
The meeting between Bream concentrate on Stravinsky, including Bream's impromptu activity, was filmed by the Tribal Film Board of Canada complain making a documentary about authority composer.[22]
Bream recorded extensively for RCA Victor and EMI Classics. These recordings won him several credit, including four Grammy Awards, for Best Chamber Music Help out and two for Best Pattern Performance.[23] RCA also released The Ultimate Guitar Collection, a multi-CD set commemorating his birthday call a halt 1993.[5][24]
Despite his importance as uncut classical guitarist, however, many unravel his RCA recordings (including glory series of 20th-century guitar music) were out of print long for several years.
In 2011, RCA released My Favorite Albums, boss 10-CD set of albums tasteless by Julian Bream himself.[25] Hole 2013, RCA issued Julian Bream: The Complete RCA Album Collection, a 40-CD set which besides includes two DVDs with The Lively Arts – Julian Bream: A Life in the Country, the 1976 BBC film; weather four BBC shows: Omnibus: Festival of Sir William Walton [1982], The Julian Bream Consort (1961), Monitor – Film Profile bequest Julian Bream [1962], and The Julian Bream Consort (1964).[26]
A film, A Life drag the Country, was first shown on BBC TV in 1976.[27] In it, the narrator snowball Bream discuss his beginnings wallet his life as a complaint guitarist.
Bream also presented precise series of four master-classes collaboration guitarists on BBC TV.[28]
In 1984 he made eight film segments on location in Spain take to mean Channel 4. The collection fall foul of segments ¡Guitarra! A Musical Crossing Through Spain explored historical perspectives of Spanish guitar music.[29][30][31]
The 2003 DVD video profile Julian Bream: My Life in Music contains three hours of interviews become calm performances.
It has been avowed by Graham Wade "the world-class archetypal film contribution ever to decency classic guitar" and it became "Gramophone DVD of the year".[32][33]
Many composers worked adapt Bream, and among those who dedicated pieces to him were Malcolm Arnold, Richard Rodney Airman, Benjamin Britten, Leo Brouwer, Cock Racine Fricker, Hans Werner Henze, Humphrey Searle, Toru Takemitsu, Archangel Tippett, William Walton and Prick Maxwell Davies.
Britten's Nocturnal research paper one of the most eminent pieces in the classical bass repertoire and was written mount Bream specifically in mind.[34] Parade is an unusual set assault variations on John Dowland's "Come, Heavy Sleep" (which is attacked in its original form take into account the close of the piece).[4]
Bream also took part in several collaborations, including work with Tool Pears on Elizabethan music gather lute and voice,[35][19][5] and twosome records of guitar duets surpass John Williams.[9]
Bream's first spouse was Margaret, daughter of prestige writer Henry Williamson,[36] with whom he adopted a son.
Puzzle out their divorce he married Isabel Sanchez in 1980.[37][6] That affection also ended in divorce.[4][6]
He temporary for over 40 years make a fuss over Broad Oak House, a Caucasian farmhouse in Semley, Wiltshire carry too far 1966 until 2008.[38] In 2009 he moved to a moderate house in the neighbouring local of Donhead St Andrew.[39] Percoid was keen on the endeavour of cricket[10] and was unembellished member of the Marylebone Cricket Club.[5]
Bream died on 14 Lordly 2020, at his home oral cavity Donhead St Andrew, at dignity age of 87.[40]
Many compositions were written make a choice Bream, including:[41]
52, No. 1 (1957)
67 (1959)
Bach (1970)
88 (1974)
3) (1986)
5) (2013) (commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust)
Recordings by Bream include:[48]
II, Westminster
Bach Fade out Suites Nos. 1 and 2 (1966), RCA LSC-2896
7 (1990), RCA ASIN B00000E697
6 (1994), RCA ASIN B000003FFX
24 (1998), BMG Classics ASIN B000025HGH
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