Today's Listening

These days a lot of young guitarists frankly sound a bit robotic in their quest for technical perfection. After listening to them we like to go and listen to some Andrés Segovia as a palate cleanser, someone who was a great artist and a pretty good technician. But here, for your delectation, is a true virtuoso who has a spectacular technique but never sounds like a robot: Pepe Romero and the Etude No. 1 by Villa-Lobos.