Indeed, as suggested by Machael Macmeeken in the Chanterelle Edition of Sor's Complete Studies, page 193, Sor's Studies, they can be graded as follows:
From his accessment of the degree of difficulty of each individual piece of all of Sor's Studies, one could extract the grading of the Opus 60 pieces,
as well as those of the Opus 35:
By the number of Elementary, Novice and Intermediate pieces in each Opus, one can see, then, that Opus 35 seems to be a bit more challenging than Opus 60.
Therefore, as before, I'm inviting whomever is learning, or already plays some of the Opus 35 pieces, to share his progress and achievements and to comment on any particular aspect of a given piece she/he is studying or is already familiar with (difficulty, beauty, musical analysis, etc.).
I start the Project, then, by posting the piece #1. The #1 is an Elementary piece. The learning period, which refers to the dates I started with the piece and the day I considered it to be fully memorized and “in my fingers”, was: 05Nov18 - 13Nov16. The piece has no repeats and the assigned Tempo is Andante. I looked at the Wikipedia and, today, it implied to play it at 1/4 = 76–108 bpm, but even the upper limit, 108 bpm, seemed to me to be too slow, so I settled on 1/4 = 125 bpm. Comments are welcome.
The record was produced with the Zoom Handy Recorder app on my iPhone, the sound capture being made by an iRig microphone that connects directly to the iPhone. The guitar used was my Kuniharu Nobe #8 (1972), fitted with Knobloch Actives Carbon CX, High Tension strings. The resulting .wav file was then processed with the Audacity audio editor on Windows 10 to produce the .wma and .mp3 files below. Apart from cutting and splicing the audio wave file to eliminate some not so well succeeded sections, no special effects were added during the recording and editing sessions.
Sor, Fernando - Opus 35 #1 (V1).mp3
So, the table of posted (TPR) records is the following:
The corresponding Excel file (TPR) is stored in my Google Drive and any Forum Member can download and use it at any time. By pointing to any particular post, the reader will have available not only the sound or video file but also all the subsequent comments made by other Forum members.
This is what I have for the moment, but I could not end this post without wishing you all a Happy 2019...
