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  • A expressividade de Julian Bream tocando Albeniz é uma lição extraordinária de interpretação. A fluidez da melodia e a utilização conveniente dos diferentes timbres fazem desse vídeo um modelo, um "cult".

  • who are that 7 idiots who disliked it!?!?

  • Love it

  • I like to be pedantic: written in f sharp minor for piano. Transcribed to d minor here (as far as I have not gone tone-deaf yet).

  • learning this piece right now. thanks for the inspiration

  • Julian Bream is to John Williams what Modernism is to Baroque.

  • The thing i like about Bream is that he makes John Williams sound like a pretender.

  • Yeah, yeah, fabulous :oP

  • ¡Qué placer! Impecable ejecución.

  • @dinkipooxa I have the image of the ship. It is the world of my impression to feel from this performance.

    (TS)

  • I'm looking for melodies from the album covered with the picture in 5:47

    can someone tell me what is that album's name?

  • I once had the misfortune to share a cabin with Bream in the 70"s, on board a tanker carrying toxic waste to Iceland. He"s a lovely bloke but when he"s had a few cans he can be a right awkward so and so. Had his guitar with him but refused to take it off the top bunk and that was mine. I had to kip on the floor. Next morning he bought me a doughnut for breakfast and played this song. I"ll never forget his sugary fingers sticking to the fretboard. I haven"t seen him since.

  • @topleft26 That is either to crazy to be made up or complete BS! Either way, epic story LOL

  • @topleft26 Hahaha - brilliant. You and Bream sharing a cabin on a tanker full of toxic waste on its way to Iceland!! You must have been about 6 or 7 at the time. I'm surprised he didn't just chuck you overboard, but in a way I'm pleased he didn't... :-) Great imagination mate - you should be on the box with your memoirs of all the famous people you've never met! A bit like Sir Henry Rawlinson....

  • What can one say? This is perfection.

  • My favourite Albeniz and Julian Bream tune superbly played by the master - now sadly retired. No one ever came close to Julians playing not even John Williams could put the emotion and presence into their playing as he did.

  • @moaardeeb: Agreed; I saw John Williams live back in the 1980s, and while his technique was formidable, his playing was devoid of emotion compared to Bream. I still feel that way. Bream is my choice as the greatest classical guitar & lute virtuoso of the last century.

  • @GeorgiaBoy1961 Why did you say John Williams' performance "was devoid of emotion, compared to Bream?" Do you mean John's facial expressions are not as expressive as Bream's, frankly ?

  • @MrGayItUp Maybe because Williams' tonal palette pales in comparison to Breams master of color and tone.

  • Very very nice!! Mallorca of Bream is a supreme work. Will it be a daytime port and a night port? Or will it be a ship navigating and an anchoring ship? I think that the state of such a port is expressed well. Thus there is the unique sound that the old engine ship gives. Bream plays it like the sound of the ship in the last of the music. Thank you. (TS)

  • Beautiful

  • A beautiful transcription, I'm a few hours into learning this one, check it out at the video response section!

  • Well , another perfect performance from Bream, I'm working on this piece myself , I'll be happy if I can play it half as good as he does.

  • this transcription is in D minor

  • that is exactly what I was about to type.

  • Wonderful. i love both Breams' and Williams' interpretations of Albeniz. This is surely one of his most beautiful and haunting compositions played by a master of the instrument....now, lets see who is winning the X-FACTOR tonight.

  • To be honest i think Bream's playing of Spanish music is fantastic. The most vibrant and emotive! As for the recording quality, it must just be the online factor because this a recording from the 80's when he recorded several Albeniz and Granados pieces which are probably his most famous.

  • Maestro!!!!!!!!

  • can you loop parts of this on you tube does anyone know how

  • probably the best interpretation ive ever heard of this piece. norbert kraft's interpretation comes second.

  • sooo schön...nein...nicht schön, einfach zu geil...zu spanisch..zu geil..zu schön..zu traurig..

  • bravo!

  • ... Heart breaking....

  • absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful...i love williams' interpretation too, but breams has a wonderful sense of nuance..excellent-a true master

  • Wonderful music, evocative of place and time. Also check out Garoto, who wrote many short pieces I take to be the voice of a nostalgic Brazil.

  • Magnificent, I must go to Mallorca.

    I wonder if it's still as beautiful as in Albeniz' time?

  • Awsome. But is it just me or does this sound really simmillar to Tarregas capricho arabe? hm hmm

  • Not just you. Similar tempo and theme.

  • 35 years ago when I started learning guitar it was a record which i bought, Bream plays Granados & Albeniz which inspired me, this was one of my favourites from the album, I couldnt believe & still cant how much emotion & feeling he got out of the instrument, John Williams may have been better in terms of pure technic but for emotion, Bream gets me every time. The Master!!.

  • Magnifica interpretación. ¿cuando se grabó?

  • Assolutamente divino!

    Grande, commovente interpretazione.

    Grazie!

  • julian bream is the worlds greatest guitar player

  • Veramente sublime e celestiale!

    Grandissimo artista Julian Bream

    Grazie!

  • Brilliant. The most beautiful music I think i've ever heard.

  • The more I hear Bream, the more I realize that he was the best.

  • I'm starting to believe that as well.

    This piece, along with many others that he has performed, are just absolute perfection.

  • me too man, me too

  • @nickmctrick I feel ya, man! The three best are Segovia, Bream and Williams. Not necessarily in that order. All three awesome in their own way. My first exposure to the classical guitar was Bream. It was a cassette called 'The Art of Julian Bream'. I later found it on vinyl. It's an awesome album. Hard to find. I wish they'd reprint it on CD.

  • magnificent

  • In our life time your hearing the best there is .

  • This interpretation of Mallorca is absolute perfection.We can listen to a thousand versions and none will even come close. Sublime talent.

  • i listen to this piece every morning when i wake up

  • I wish God gave me this gift

  • could you tell me which cd or record the piece is from?

    thanks in advance.

  • I'd say heeez pretty good.

  • LMAO at the last comment........

  • timing is a little out but apart from that not bad at all

  • HAHAHAHA WHAT A DUMBASS

  • hahahaha dude, you are kidding right? This is music, not run by guidelines. Not run by a drum or a metronome. This is living, breathing music. Too much for you to understand obviously

  • well I'm not going to laugh at you, but try this. Listen to this whole peice with your eyes closed. Listen to every note. Don't compare it to anything, just listen.

    Now when you find a note that is 'a little bit off' ask yourself if it was intentional. Ask yourself if it complements anything in the performance. In this case, I am sure that you will find that it does.

    later you will learn when to listen to a piece on its own merit, and you may find that this is a version to compare others TO.

  • the emotion is so fantastic you can almost feel the Majorcan sun beating down on your neck

  • Inspiración sublime la de Isaac Albéniz y que

    a través de las manos y guitarra de éste genial guitarrista,llega a conmover el alma

    en lo más profundo del ser.!!!!!!!!

  • q tema para precioso

    q mas se puede decir de un maestro de esta categoria

    gracias por el regalo.Peru

  • No other version even comes close.

  • Incredible. Julian Bream plays with such emotion and feeling.

  • Mr Bream still the best!!!

  • The best version and simply one very nice piece of music.

  • Molto bello!

  • Simply the best version!

  • Simply the best version!

  • Holy crap! Not in a million years will i ever be able to play it like that.Oh well, all I can do is take my best shot at it.

  • oh

    thank you

    bream! =)

  • Bream is one of the most outstanding guitarists of 20 centuries! Perfectly!

  • beautiful, noone plays it like bream

  • thanks so much i have been looking for this recording of mallorca for so long, this one is the best, his tone is soothing throughout it, played with finesse, just goes together so smoothly, i wasnt even able to enjoy the other versions of this on youtube, only breams

  • good

  • G O D B L E S S Y O U

  • Безусловно, Брим является одним из самых выдающихся гитаристов современности,и,на мой взгляд, превосходит даже Сеговию.

  • Yes, the year is 1890, thank you.

  • This is a great recording! he played it so well!

    there is also a version on youtube by michael chapdelaine (also brilliant, played it to segovia)

    1980? you mean 1880 right?

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