Guitarist John Williams gets a standing ovation at St George's Bristol

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 14 October 2013

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 11 October 2013

Programme to include:

Works by Praetorius

Works by Bach

Works by Barrios Mangoré

Works by Williams

Williams, Hello Francis

Yocoh, Sakura Theme and Variations

Works by Figueredo

John Williams, Guitar

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John Williams at St George's Bristol

Simon Birch, 12th November

It is quite a daunting task to assess the performance of someone like John Williams. Certainly one of the finest and most famous living classical guitarists in the world, he seems something of a colossus of the instrument. Yet the manner he exuded as he entered the stage of St. George’s was of understated familiarity.

*****

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Sebastian Scotney, 13th October

In a recent interview, BBC Radio 3 Controller Roger Wright was asked "What music would you want played at your funeral?" His reply: "Spanish guitar music, because I wouldn’t be there to hear it. If you ask my colleagues they’d say Spanish guitar music is one of my blind spots."Full marks to Wright for laying his cards on the table, perhaps.

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.