Classical Guitar Review

I know that you have participated in the GFA several times before, did that experience help you to do so well this time? Yes, It was the third time that I participated in the GFA and what I learned from doing it before was to really prepare the required and set pieces well. In the [...]

AP-L: You made a switch some years ago to Greg Smallman’s guitars. Can you tell us about that and your reasons for it, because I think it shocked a lot of people that you gave up playing Fletas after so long? JW: I first met Greg when he was still making guitars with Pete Biffen [...]

AP-L: That leads almost directly to my next question – in your opinion, is the guitar an intrinsically harder instrument to play than the major classical instruments, the piano and violin, given that there is a relative shortage of established virtuosos? JW: The answer is no, on two counts. No instrument is more difficult than [...]

Interviewer: Austin Prichard-Levy Published with the kind permission of Ron Payne John Williams needs no introduction to classical guitarists, or indeed fine music lovers the world over; since his debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1958, he has attained enormous popularity with his voluminous recordings in both the classical repertoire and with his rock group, [...]