Title: Dreary filmmaking
Product review: Julian Bream is undoubtedly one of the very greatest guitarists of the 20th century and almost certainly the greatest musician to play the guitar. But this film is a dreary, nearly unwatchable exercise. Bream is not at his best doing commentary, which manages to be at the same time both pompous and shallow. He is also hard to watch in close-up because of the extreme effort involved in his way of playing. But the long, tiresome and pointless excursions in the Spanish scenery are even worse. And all too often, commentary of some sort is uttered above a musical performance.The DVD ends with a performance of the Concierto de Aranjuez of Joaquin Rodrigo that merely demonstrates that Bream is NOT an outstanding concerto performer.Unfortunate that such a great artist as Julian Bream should be remembered by this badly-done film.
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