Here's a treat for guitar music fans. 40 Fingers is a guitar quartet formed in 2017. Their Web site says:
40 Fingers is an Italian guitar quartet born in 2017 from four artists with entirely different musical background and each well-established on Italy’s music scene through their many individual projects.
40 Fingers are Matteo Brenci, Emanuele Grafitti, Enrico Maria Milanesi and Andrea Vittori. The original line-up formed in 2017 with guitarist Marco Steffè (with whom the band released the first album “40 Fingers” available on all digital platforms) lasted until October 2019 when Enrico Maria Milanesi joined the band in his place.
These four guitar players are set on a mission to explore new galaxies of sound with a wide repertoire of original pieces and covers, which they perform in the fingerpicking technique and skillfully arranged for four guitars. Their musical treat based on the reinterpretation of a range of modern music classics, is equally at home in the styles of jazz and of Latin American music, creating a mesmerizing experience that brings the audience from popular movie scores to jazz, from Astor Piazzolla to the Beatles, from Eagles to Toto, from Dire Straits to Eric Clapton, all perfectly merged with their unique style and their original work and compositions.
They have a very wide-ranging repertoire, from modern to folk, from baroque to classical, all reinterpreted and rescored for four guitars. I enjoy their music very much. Here are five pieces that I hope will illustrate why.
First, one of their biggest hits, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". Interestingly, Queen's Web site thanked 40 Fingers for "creating such a lovely version of their famous tune".
Here's the overture to Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro".
Music from "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Beethoven's "Für Elise".
And, just for fun, Metallica's "Fade to Black".
Talented bunch, aren't they? You'll find much more of their music on their YouTube channel, at their Web site, and for sale through various vendors.
Peter
I first discovered this group through your website; you posted several different groups covering the song "The Gael" made famous - or rather, more widely known -by the movie "The Last of the Mohicans.". My favorite version was by 40 Fingers.
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I love to see my favorite guitar of all time, the Tennessee-made Gibson J-45, being used by one of this quartet. Mine is hanging in my music room and although the dreadnought body is beginning to hurt my right arm, I still love playing it.
ReplyDeleteWow. Fur Elise with a Latin beat! Wow again.
ReplyDeleteWow. Thank you, Peter. I had no idea these guys existed. What truly sublime music. Don't suppose if you know if they have cds out? Couldn't find online but I am notorious for not seeing what's in front of me. -- Karen in Sydney.
ReplyDelete@Karen: They're on Amazon, and I think iTunes as well. Don't know about CD's.
ReplyDeleteMore strings but somewhat O/T
ReplyDelete"This is, once again, J.S. Bach Toccata & Fugue in D Minor. This time on a Harp, and with a Cyrillic Title, so I assume she is Russian. But 9.5 minutes without a single missed note in an iconic and not simple piece. Then, you can See The Music on the strings! "
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/07/10/sunday-into-monday-and-omg-a-harp-t-f-d-then/
And more cultural -
"Well Worth Seeing – Sound of Freedom"
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/07/16/well-worth-seeing-sound-of-freedom/
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