Arkhiping biography is personal

The thoughts of the guitarist Alexei Arkhipovsky. The thoughts of the guitarist Alexei Arkhipovsky are a new generation musician, a new approach to performing, using modern opportunities and re -opened a huge number of people. What can the guitarists learn from the genius of balalaika. Of course, the guitar and balalaika are tools, at first glance, are very different, but still they have relatives recently stumbled upon a concert of one balalaika on the Internet - my former classmate.

I look - a laureate of all kinds of competitions, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and other, and other in general, merit of a car and a small cart! He was always a very bright musician and virtuoso, he simply did not get out of the stage, traveled at the time of his studies almost all of Europe with the concerts of the balalaika there - that for us outlandish things from the overseas countries, he finished 5 courses of the conservatory for only 3 years, I think, here you are talking about the “death” of the balalaiki as an instrument, that only thanks to Arkipovsky it was suddenly revived and here they are, apart He is talents - concerts, laureates, honored artists, etc.

In general, I was very delighted-the connection with him was long lost, I have been typing in You-Tube his last name somehow before I did not have a similar thought and I immediately find myself on video from his concerts. I turned on one video, the other, listened, listened, and somehow lousy, I sat down and looked at painfully familiar, completely standard, boring academic concert of folk instrumental music: soloist-ballasteen in a tailcoat, behind the pianist-concertmaster for the piano, and all the same variations on the theme of dancing, the processing of folk melodies, the transfers of classical music for balalaika a There is nothing of the main emotions and technology and academicism, but there is no soul in short, I saddened this one, having seen this one, which filled it during the years of study, the picture of nothing new, fresh, interesting and bright-all the same and all the same, the same techniques as everyone else, the same sound, the same formal, in general greeting green: I think so, probably, and I think, and I think, and I think, and I think it and I think In the manner of not the uniqueness of Arkhipovsky, I somehow got excited and scored his name in the search bar.

I turn on the first video that comes across. It turned out to be "lovely": what to say, I listened in one breath! What a game, what artistry, what sound, what a miracle of music is born under the fingers of this genius! Still, Arkhipovsky is unique and unique! I began to look for information about him I come across an interview. A refrigerated girl asks adequate and smart questions.

A very interesting interview turned out, not banal, as often happens: pay attention, the artist calls his plays "stories"! And what did I say! Our third -year students, you realized what we are talking about? He further says that he is very interested in philosophy! Put for yourself another hammer and draw conclusions! It is necessary to be a real intellectual, to be deep, interesting, deeply filled with a person.

Only then your music will be filled with special “light”, a certain “transcendence”, inner wisdom and depth, will breathe in a special way, carry the “something” that will never be in the music of ordinary musicians, “Labukhov” a musician, designating “champions” from music, and in fact, superficial prestigious prestigious people. At the very beginning of my journey in music, one very good guitarist’s friend repeatedly said: “Take a philosophy, there will be nothing without it, your music will be empty and dead!

I must say that the musicians are often sufficiently limited people, and this very, very bad will be uninteresting, will be predictable, standard and customary, it will be as gray and“ flat ”, as well as the whole philosophy changes everything, gives the volume of everything, gives the volume. What am I about the Arkhipovsky mentions that in his life there were long periods of the crisis?

Golden events. And the artist says that he studied for 6 years at the same time on two tools - on the balalaika and on the piano. But in the end, I chose it-my beloved.

But the time spent on classes on the piano certainly did not go to him for nothing - after all, nothing goes away for nothing, everything goes into a common piggy bank. And it is not yet known, Arkhipovsky would have developed, as we now know him, if there weren’t two of such different instruments in his childhood and Alexey’s very interesting remark - he devotes a great time to search and experiments with sound!

This is very, very important! By the way, another genius constantly speaks of this - Tommy Emmanuel! Sound is all in music!Not fluency, not technology, not the techniques of the game, although this is very, very important. But the sound is the soul, this is the essence of music, its inspiration, and the inspiration of the musician himself, this is what everything else needs!

Arkhipovsky in the usual balalaika found a new sound from the merger of the acoustic sound and the sound of electronic! And this is a new level, a different plane of creativity, inspiration of a different order! Also draw your conclusions and more, in the technique of technology, mind you, Arkhipovsky very actively uses flagelet technique, which he has all the time and is constantly interspersed with the usual game!

It turns out amazing sparkling enchanting and incomparable impression! Our wages, attention - also draw the appropriate conclusions! After all, you and I, too, are not just so details and deeply studying all the wisdom and varieties of the game with flagolets! This is a very necessary and useful knowledge and skill! Such thoughts were born and in the end I propose to see a very interesting interview with Alexei Arkhipovsky on the Learnmusic channel.

And most importantly, they are useful because they allow you to get acquainted with the views and thoughts of such unique people. And this leads to the birth of one’s own thoughts “in a pole” and helps something new, unknown, to open in itself and in its art! This helps a lot in movement along its path in the guitar and it does not matter that Arkhipovsky does not play the guitar!

So, we look at a fragment of a meeting with Alexei Arkhipovsky on Learnmusic: I did not post the other 7 parts of the conversation with Alexei Arkhipovsky on Learnmusic. But if you are interested in a meeting with the artist, you can find the rest in similar videos. Well, I wish you a prayer and useful minutes of communication with this brilliant musician!

Vyacheslav Shuvalov.