Shouldn't this too be classified as classical blues?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXlslzL8EY&mode=related&search=

Answer 1

Interesting question.

Traditional blues is a sort of chaconne -- continuous variations over a fixed harmonic progression. But the Bach Chaconne does not use a traditional 12 bar blues form, or progression.

Nice analogy though.

Answer 2

No, that should be classified as Baroque music played with a bleeding-heart sense of Romanticism and a mannered repetition of an indefensible staccato-? or -pause ?or rest? NO a HICCUP!
Dummmm (HICCUP) - dum dum/
Dummmm (HICCUP) - dum dum/
that obscures the pulse so badly that you cannot find Segovia's beat anywhere in there UNLESS you hiccup along with him at the right places. Of course, being that the Maestro put such hiccups in randomly and doubtless felt they were rubatii you can never tell where to hiccup along. The fact that rubato wasn't used in Baroque music doesn't matter. After all, this was Segovia, and anything he played must necessarily be the accepted genius standard.........
Well there I go again... that's why it says "gadfly" in my user name. Where's the hemlock? I'll have to take it because I believe in the State despite it's shortcomings. After all I've now publicly dissed God!