Andres Segovia - In Portrait: 2 Films - Naxos Deutschland

The two very different films on this DVD celebrate, in different ways, the extraordinary quest of Andres Segovia. He was an Andalucian, par excellence, who, in his childhood, fell in love with the beauties of the Alhambra and melancholy voices of the Spanish guitar and within the space of 20 years, had taught himself the instrument, revolutionised the technique and elevated the guitar to the highest levels of the international concert platform - an achievement unique in the history of Western music. The titles of the films are "Segovia at Los Olivos", which we shot in his new home on the Costa del Sol in Andalucia when the Grand Master was 75 and "Andres Segovia: The Song of the Guitar" which we shot in Granada and the glorious Palaces of the Alhambra, when he was 84.

Near the end of his life Segovia said that the first of them was the best hing he ever did for television. The second won the Prix du Public at Besancon Festival in 1977.