What happened to Kazuhito, that he does not play his absolute phantatic transcription of Moussorgsky's masterpiece anymore? Why are all records out of stock today? Such an awesome piece of work! For me, it even sounds better than the origininal although I do hear, that some passages had defenetely not been written for a six string instrument. I admire his outstanding qualities as an artist as much as his courage. In a way, he is the Glenn Gould of the classical guitar.
That is really perfect! I did not know there exists a transcription of this great piece of music for guitar. And Mr. Yamashita seems to be a guitar freak! Incrrrrredible!!!!!!
How can you compare SRV's R&B to Yamashita's perfect interpretation of Mussorgskij's most popular music? I also love SRV but that ist something completely different.
he just shows what is possible on a wooden box with six strings. All other classical guitarists before him were satisfied by playing Sor or Giuliani all day long. What a boring time. But guitar has NO LIMITS.
@thejugglenaut90 No hay razón para insultarlo por transcribir la música. Esto es una transcripción, la pieza original es así. Yamashita sólo puso esta pieza a disposición para la guitarra, si no te gusta, no la escuches. La guitarra es un instrumento que comunica las ideas, sentimientos, del compositor y del músico. Sin embargo, no todas las canciones siguen reglas de armonía, y pueden sonar "mal". Por otro lado, es usted chileno? Nadie se metió con su raza, por qué llamarlo "amarillo reculiao".
Thanks for the upload! If you have it, could you upload The Infernal Dance of King Katsch??? It used to be up on YT but seems to have dissapeared. That is one of the most incredible guitar performances I've ever seen.
what the fuck is so musical at this ?hes just to rubato too agressive, i dont like it.he is indeed a virtuoso guitarist, but virtuosity is nothing without musicality.
It is physically impossible to get the trills going on on base D and sustain notes near 7th/12th fret position at the same time. Source of controversy by critics that it is a double recording or two people playing it.
But I guess he just...faked it :)
(he just didn't sustained it, song is too fast I could hardly notice.)
@gatsbi007 I'm getting sick of people who criticize Yamashita's transcriptions and techniques. Sure this piece cannot fully be played as like the piano but surely does come close and I'm sure it does catch the composer's intent. The notes cannot be sustained because it is impossible to play that on the guitar. Yamashita does his best and it surely sounds like it to me.
@TheGuitarMan009 Yo, I'm not criticizing him if that is how you perceived my comment.
Sure Yamashita has a lot of critics here on youtube for "fast / let's break the guitar" kind of playing. But dang, I just love he's 80's recordings. People are entitled to thier likes and dislikes, let let them have their way I guess. I like his super ultra hyper playing like this video, and not too much into he's matured playing these days. Yamashita fan boy here...
How come there always has to be some halfwit spewing nonsense as though it were enlightened and informed criticism? Your failure to recognize and appreciate a master at work reveals just how ignorant you really are.
Most performers could spend a lifetime practicing and not achieve this level of mastery that Yamashita had already attained in early twenties. The simple fact that he was able to transcribe the original work for a solo instrument is amazing in and of itself. But, to play this piece with such exuberance, precision and dynamics is just astonishing. My ONLY criticism would be of the video quality. But, hey, this was recorded in the 1980's so...
It's sad to think there are classical guitarists that fall for this kind of speed gimmick. If any class of musicians should be able to see through "machine gun" playing classical guitarists should.
If you saw the documentary on jazz that Ken Burns made you would know that when Miles Davis auditioned a new member for his band he made them play a slow tune cause you have to have something to say when you play a slow melody or you just sound like crap.
@aitkenjoshua --- Yawn. I never would have guessed you'd say that. Aren't you original. And BTW you never dealt with the issue i raised but then that was the why you posted that tired, old cliche to begin with.
@tom6612 Gosh Tom, Playing a slow melody, say Schumann's Traumerei sure is very difficult. But playing Chopin's fast Etude is very difficult as well. You could now qualify to call Chopin's Etudes the "machine gun" gimmicks. (Or kindly, be humbled and get back in your place to think it over)... Peace ;)
@gatsbi007 --- (part 1) I honestly didn't understand the point you we're making ? Some slow pieces are hard too and some fast pieces are easy to play. I've experienced that myself but thats not the point i was making. I was going along with what Knocktua was saying. The emphasis should be on feeling and musicianship. If speed was the metric of good music then simply increasing your metronomes rate would make a composition / performance more beautiful. Thats clearly false.
@gatsbi007 (part - 2) I think the best real life example can be found by listening to Jim Hall. The man has a long time reputation of not being able to play very fast yet he is considered one of the top jazz guitarists because he never wastes a note like the speed demons so often do. Rock guitarist Mick Taylor is another example. He may be limited in technique but what he does within his limitations is amazing. Good music is too mysterious to be easily defined.
@tom6612 The point I was trying to make was slow or fast, they are both music. I got an idea from your comment that fast song is just a gimmick and hence not a music.
You've said “This kind of speed gimmick”. First of all, Yamashita's playing is not a gimmick. Classical, unlike Jazz, is being played note by note from a written music, no improvising here. Hence, word gimmick doesn't suit at all here.
Oh well, we might be talking about different things, I will stop here.
@gatsbi007 -- (part 1) You are stating the obvious. And i am not remarking about Yamaha's playing at all. I am commenting about the way listeners often mistake hand dexterity as musicality. It's not hard to practice speed drills all day till you become fast on an instrument. Thats basically just mechanical repetition but if you don't have the soul / feeling / artistry you might as well be a player piano or a music box. I don't know how many more ways i can say it.
@tom6612 Hmm, I guess I've taken your comment out of context,. Sure, soul/feeling matters more than technicality (well, ain't that obvious too? the difference is night and day!). Nontheless, what you are missing here and I think people who are cheering Yamashita's playing is because his playing is inhumane. Trust me, it's not something that can be acheived just by blind hard practice (after all, we are human).
Oh well, you got your false god, Miles Davis? as others cheer at false prophet.
@gatsbi007 --Did you see the part where i said I'm not really commenting on HIS playing. But anyway it was a nice give and take with you. At least you didn't react like i had blasphemed your god.
@gatsbi007 --- (part 2) I think the best example can be found in the blues. Lightin Hopkins is about as unskilled a guitarist as you can find yet he can give a thrilling performance that will give you goosebumps. When you reach the advanced stage of any instrument it is taken for granted that the performer will be able to play very fast so that means almost nothing and thats what Miles Davis understood as i said in my first post.
You clearly haven't listened to any of Yamashita's recordings, otherwise you'd realize how insanely idiotic you sound. Try listening to the 5 CD set where Yamashita plays Bach, and then tell me he can't play slow melodies. For the record, I don't listen to Kazuhito Yamashita for his speed; that's honestly irrelevant to me. His dynamic range, his passion, his control, his ability to transcribe...the list goes on and on without the need to mention his speed.
@gunther101 - Well Einstein i don't know how many more times i can say it. Reread my comments slowly. This will be ONLY the third time i have said this. I AM NOT COMMENTING ON YAMAHA SPECIFICALLY. Let me know how many times something has to be repeated for you to grasp it.
You guys are just like religious fanatics whose god has been blasphemed. Am i gonna go to hell unless i repent ?
"I AM NOT COMMENTING ON YAMAHA SPECIFICALLY". Why were you commenting on THIS video then? You know, the one with Kazuhito Yamashita playing. Save your comments for a relevant video.
Watched this guy make a mess of Bach at the Conservatory in SF last year. The appeal of a classical music piece is to tell a beautiful story ( pleasant to the ear). Yamashita tells it like a vagrant on crack (lets not exclude Eliot Fisk who could readily join the ranks of the same ilk). I felt so bad for the poor Ramirez 1a in the hands of a being with not one thread of musicianship.
@Knocktua -- Nah he's a God and your only fit to lick his boot (sarcasm off) . So funny to watch the reaction to any criticism of him here. Methinks they doth protest too much. I have to agree with you as to what classical is all about. Tone color and feeling plays such a large part. For example Segovia's version of Mussorgsky's "The Old Castle". So beautiful and such a slow tune .
okey. this is certanly not as good as an orchestral version but... yamashita helped to expand technical boundires of the guitar and proved that it's not just a folk instrument for accompagnement. Besides being very expressive and technically empicable his stage presance is mesmorizing. I have yet to see a guitarist that acts like this on stage. We need more people like Yamashita to attract more young people.
no -__ yamashita is so much better than caballero,, he plays sharp becuz he wants to phrase the different instruments of the orchestra, i can hear the distinguishment but i guess you cannot. jorge does not play as well as yamashita does
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There's an arrangement of this for classical guitar for Powertab (a freeware tab editor.) I can't tell for sure, but I believe it is the same as this arrangement.
ive tried playing it but just looking at the score and trying to find the notes in my fret board is hard work. Also u really need to work with the right and left hand strength, or the promenade 1 wont sound as good.
@ricointx Trevor Rabin did a guitar arrangement of this on his "90126" solo CD but it is extensively overdubbed with many many guitars. It's not a single person arrangement like this. Watching this, I'm astounded.
@ricointx He really is superior to all classical guitarists, his dynamics, control & expression is in a class all his own. 100 years from now they'll look back at him as without a doubt the best classical guitarist of his time period.
@asherasator No they won't, they will just look at him as a freak with a lot of technique with no understanding at all of the music he's playing. There's no musicality at all in this, just exagerated emotions and sounds.
@Musicaliters Many classical musicians display "exagerated emotions & sounds" when nothing is really going on. What to you is "exagerated" to me is a man who takes the classical guitar LITERALLY TO IT'S LIMITS. U don't have to like him, that's ur opinion, but I kno what it takes to manipulate the instrument to such a degree. Ur just one of those boring old farts who thinks they kno how classical music or guitar should be played. When things don't fit a certain criteria or they put it down.
@Musicaliters Music is controlled energy & he has pushed it to its limits thru his chosen instrument. If u don't like guys who take their cars to top speed & highest level, too bad. Classical music has no real defined definitions from the masters, just scores & some notes & they can be interpreted in a variety of ways & speeds. That's what make its interesting as well as show the different abilities & talents of musicians. The classical greats ALL pushed the limits in 1 way or another.
Probably the single most astonishing classical guitar performance I've ever seen--the range of timbres, the imagination, the musicality and virtuosity are unrivaled. Yamashita was a true pioneer and visionary.
A beautiful guitar transcription of one of my all time favourite pieces of music. I prefer Vladimir Horowitz piano version, some prefer the Sviatislav Richter piano version, but Yamashita does a damn fine guitar version. I also like Jimi, JB, JP, and SRV, but have to say nice work Kazuhito :)
Can I recommend Gareth Koch from Australia, does an amazing acoustic guitar version of Carmina Burana, originally written for full orchestra + 100 piece choir, Gareth does it on 1 guitar, live.
A classical guitarist would never compare him/herself to a pop musician so why are there so many out there belittling there art by insisting on doing so? Would you pop pickers ever compare a boogie woogie pianist to Richter or Kissin?
I had yet another YouTube encounter 4 days ago it went like this:
Owen: Jimi was "the greatest muscian of the 20th century"
Entropy: "You have no idea what you are talking about. How about limiting it to a certain kind of music from a certain era, and a certain electric instrument?"
Owen: "he didnt have to....music is music, 12 notes, only thing that changes is the tone of the sound"
At "Jimi Hendrix LuLu Show 1969 **FULL**"
I rest my case. Hendrix (and Rock) fans are stupid.
gee yamashita compared to hendrix. whats next. steve vai compared to paganini.
i dont think kazuhito could play rock and blues as well as hendrix, but hendrix couldnt touch this guy on a nylon string. its apples and oranges, i enjoy both of them for who they are and what they play.
Entropy56 and dunholy, take it easy people, you all here seem to be people who understand. but dont argue for absolutely no reason at all. If we start comparing Jimi and Kazuhito, then we can can just as well start comparing Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd or John Bonham to Billy Cobham. This is absurd!!! Jimi was a unique personality and musician and no one could ever come close to what he was doing, and Miles himself knew that too. BUTTT, Kazuhito is brilliant and a MONSTER at what he is doing here
Brilliant performance...the second movement, The Old Castle, is particularly haunting on guitar. As the tune was written to represent a trobadour's music played on (probably) a lute, it is instructive to hear it played on such a lute-like instrument.
I was wondering the same. You could see the final part of the piece in which he imitates a choir with the guitar! A miracle of beauty I say.
I tried a link I saved to that video and it said it had been removed due to infringement. But who in the world would remove a piece of such beauty from public view!
Anyway, If anybody knows something else about these videos, or knows who post them, PLEASE, THE WORLD NEEDS THEM!!!!!
LOL, the way he's bobbing and weaving.. i wonder if he's ever bruised his face doing that.
But damn, he's a unique player, gifted, and he uses his proclivities (speed, agility, dynamics) extremely well, and with supremely passionate, emotionally desperate intensity.
As far as I know he's not a writer/composer (is he?) but he's certainly an elite performer... an interpretive musical artist...
1,2,3 chino japone, a cua de ro tre re apeta ro pie
XDXDXDXD
thejugglenaut90 3 days ago
he makes eliot seem tame
rdonoian 4 days ago
What happened to Kazuhito, that he does not play his absolute phantatic transcription of Moussorgsky's masterpiece anymore? Why are all records out of stock today? Such an awesome piece of work! For me, it even sounds better than the origininal although I do hear, that some passages had defenetely not been written for a six string instrument. I admire his outstanding qualities as an artist as much as his courage. In a way, he is the Glenn Gould of the classical guitar.
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That is really perfect! I did not know there exists a transcription of this great piece of music for guitar. And Mr. Yamashita seems to be a guitar freak! Incrrrrredible!!!!!!
Portokyo 3 months ago
It's impressive, but 4:32-33 is upsetting.
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thejugglenaut90 3 months ago
Oh to have a high quality vid/sound of this performance! Oh to have been there...
zinc1024 3 months ago
Loved it!
Great performance. This was truly Mussorgsky on guitar.
klepzo 3 months ago
I like Stevie Ray Vaughn better
ac3jc 4 months ago
@ac3jc
How can you compare SRV's R&B to Yamashita's perfect interpretation of Mussorgskij's most popular music? I also love SRV but that ist something completely different.
Portokyo 2 months ago
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thejugglenaut90 4 months ago
he just shows what is possible on a wooden box with six strings. All other classical guitarists before him were satisfied by playing Sor or Giuliani all day long. What a boring time. But guitar has NO LIMITS.
emeraldomusik 4 months ago 4
jap's perfect example of narcissism
gengoro1 5 months ago
ehehe esse é louquinho!
Paladaobr 6 months ago
esse é loco!
charlesfig1 6 months ago
What's this song called?
simyangyang 7 months ago
@simyangyang the title
BaoJinKhan 7 months ago
i learned the first movement and felt pretty okay about it. now i realize how horrible i truly sound.
this guy is nuts.
DiphallicTerata 9 months ago 5
haters gonna hate
tnjones000 9 months ago 18
@tnjones000 lol "haxunit"?
Gauldoth06 8 months ago
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thejugglenaut90 10 months ago
21 people didn't like... what? his hairstyle maybe? Cause everything else is pefect.
gomenaros 10 months ago 11
@gomenaros possibly one of the most passionate, and evolved guitarists ever.
insaneguitarfreak 4 months ago
posture is quite annoying....good playing though =]
TheArsenalfc101 10 months ago
an achievement for music in general not just guitar and to think if he was born in 1961 he was only 23 when he did this here... wow
uneedtherapy42 10 months ago 2
3.54 and so on==>awesome
Pedrowzow 11 months ago
Esto es lo que llamo la anti-tecnica al servicio del virtuosismo sublime! Yamashita es un raro genio de la guitarra unico en su especie!!!
GuitaristEnigma 11 months ago
impresionante
wokolawal 11 months ago
@thejugglenaut90 No hay razón para insultarlo por transcribir la música. Esto es una transcripción, la pieza original es así. Yamashita sólo puso esta pieza a disposición para la guitarra, si no te gusta, no la escuches. La guitarra es un instrumento que comunica las ideas, sentimientos, del compositor y del músico. Sin embargo, no todas las canciones siguen reglas de armonía, y pueden sonar "mal". Por otro lado, es usted chileno? Nadie se metió con su raza, por qué llamarlo "amarillo reculiao".
jesuizanmich 1 year ago
dangeruos
Mmmagdaa 1 year ago
dangerous
Mmmagdaa 1 year ago
03:59... Did he press Fast Forward button or something?
gomenaros 1 year ago 2
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thejugglenaut90 1 year ago
@thejugglenaut90 tambien lo toca jorge caballero
citarman 1 year ago
impressive, the style of Yamashita reminds me of Lang Lang
tokushima68 1 year ago
@tokushima68
Lang Lang.... the Panda?
Rexicano 1 year ago
4:21 WICKED!!!!
anewlow23 1 year ago
Thanks for the upload! If you have it, could you upload The Infernal Dance of King Katsch??? It used to be up on YT but seems to have dissapeared. That is one of the most incredible guitar performances I've ever seen.
TakashiMiike17 1 year ago
Great music.....But his movements were really comical.... I started laughing from 1:00 onwards
macmanue 1 year ago
Learn how to spell Exhibition ...jackass.
Malakian720 1 year ago
INCREDIBLE. I never thought the guitar version could be as breathtaking as the orchestral one.
arglborps 1 year ago
Amazing,great man!
At that moment one with what is playing.
And 'he music.
Artaxbozzim 1 year ago
i simply don't understand why there is a dislike-button on youtube!
ResearchInMotion9000 1 year ago
what the fuck is so musical at this ?hes just to rubato too agressive, i dont like it.he is indeed a virtuoso guitarist, but virtuosity is nothing without musicality.
duderock009 1 year ago
And he is only 23 there. Performing his OWN transcription!
Timoheikki1964 1 year ago
hardrock!!!
otanchinmusic 1 year ago
I've watched the original tape of this - it's fantastic!
jjjjjjkl 1 year ago
@jjjjjjkl Where'd you see the original tape? I would LOVE to see The Old Castle performed by my hero Yamashita
tplaisted22 1 year ago
@tplaisted22 I know the person who filmed it.
jjjjjjkl 1 year ago
HEARTLESS!!!!!!!!!!! And there is NOT much difference between you and a 4 year old child playing, or destructing, a Fisher Price Guitar!
diegoarboli 1 year ago
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thejugglenaut90 1 year ago
Argh I want to hear The Old Castle so bad....Where is a video of him playing it?
tplaisted22 1 year ago
stop spam now
tv217theend 1 year ago
"If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet" - H. Caulfield
tom6612 1 year ago
4:12, He is not playing as he transcribed it.
It is physically impossible to get the trills going on on base D and sustain notes near 7th/12th fret position at the same time. Source of controversy by critics that it is a double recording or two people playing it.
But I guess he just...faked it :)
(he just didn't sustained it, song is too fast I could hardly notice.)
gatsbi007 1 year ago
@gatsbi007 I'm getting sick of people who criticize Yamashita's transcriptions and techniques. Sure this piece cannot fully be played as like the piano but surely does come close and I'm sure it does catch the composer's intent. The notes cannot be sustained because it is impossible to play that on the guitar. Yamashita does his best and it surely sounds like it to me.
TheGuitarMan009 1 year ago
@TheGuitarMan009 Yo, I'm not criticizing him if that is how you perceived my comment.
Sure Yamashita has a lot of critics here on youtube for "fast / let's break the guitar" kind of playing. But dang, I just love he's 80's recordings. People are entitled to thier likes and dislikes, let let them have their way I guess. I like his super ultra hyper playing like this video, and not too much into he's matured playing these days. Yamashita fan boy here...
gatsbi007 1 year ago
The Promenade is a bear to learn. Extremely tough to play legato
tplaisted22 1 year ago
i like how he rams his nose into his neck..... doesn't matter though. I is still the Glenn Gould of guitar.
HailThyDrumKit 1 year ago
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thejugglenaut90 1 year ago
How come there always has to be some halfwit spewing nonsense as though it were enlightened and informed criticism? Your failure to recognize and appreciate a master at work reveals just how ignorant you really are.
tvis81 1 year ago 2
Most performers could spend a lifetime practicing and not achieve this level of mastery that Yamashita had already attained in early twenties. The simple fact that he was able to transcribe the original work for a solo instrument is amazing in and of itself. But, to play this piece with such exuberance, precision and dynamics is just astonishing. My ONLY criticism would be of the video quality. But, hey, this was recorded in the 1980's so...
tvis81 1 year ago 3
he is my hero
pianoguitarduo 1 year ago
It's sad to think there are classical guitarists that fall for this kind of speed gimmick. If any class of musicians should be able to see through "machine gun" playing classical guitarists should.
If you saw the documentary on jazz that Ken Burns made you would know that when Miles Davis auditioned a new member for his band he made them play a slow tune cause you have to have something to say when you play a slow melody or you just sound like crap.
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612 there is a name for your condition, it's called inferiority complex.
aitkenjoshua 1 year ago 3
@aitkenjoshua --- Yawn. I never would have guessed you'd say that. Aren't you original. And BTW you never dealt with the issue i raised but then that was the why you posted that tired, old cliche to begin with.
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612 ....Fuck you....
HailThyDrumKit 1 year ago
@HailThyDrumKit -- Better get a grip on that hair trigger psycho or your gonna end up in a padded room.
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612 Gosh Tom, Playing a slow melody, say Schumann's Traumerei sure is very difficult. But playing Chopin's fast Etude is very difficult as well. You could now qualify to call Chopin's Etudes the "machine gun" gimmicks. (Or kindly, be humbled and get back in your place to think it over)... Peace ;)
gatsbi007 1 year ago 2
@gatsbi007 --- Could you translate that into English ?
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612 Hmm...If you are just trying to be sarcastic... was expecting a better comeback (And sorry if I have offended you).
If you really didn't understand my comment, look back at your comment and try to read my comment again. (Hmm...Is my English that bad?)
Good day.
gatsbi007 1 year ago
@gatsbi007 --- (part 1) I honestly didn't understand the point you we're making ? Some slow pieces are hard too and some fast pieces are easy to play. I've experienced that myself but thats not the point i was making. I was going along with what Knocktua was saying. The emphasis should be on feeling and musicianship. If speed was the metric of good music then simply increasing your metronomes rate would make a composition / performance more beautiful. Thats clearly false.
tom6612 1 year ago
@gatsbi007 (part - 2) I think the best real life example can be found by listening to Jim Hall. The man has a long time reputation of not being able to play very fast yet he is considered one of the top jazz guitarists because he never wastes a note like the speed demons so often do. Rock guitarist Mick Taylor is another example. He may be limited in technique but what he does within his limitations is amazing. Good music is too mysterious to be easily defined.
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612 The point I was trying to make was slow or fast, they are both music. I got an idea from your comment that fast song is just a gimmick and hence not a music.
You've said “This kind of speed gimmick”. First of all, Yamashita's playing is not a gimmick. Classical, unlike Jazz, is being played note by note from a written music, no improvising here. Hence, word gimmick doesn't suit at all here.
Oh well, we might be talking about different things, I will stop here.
Later~
gatsbi007 1 year ago
@gatsbi007 -- (part 1) You are stating the obvious. And i am not remarking about Yamaha's playing at all. I am commenting about the way listeners often mistake hand dexterity as musicality. It's not hard to practice speed drills all day till you become fast on an instrument. Thats basically just mechanical repetition but if you don't have the soul / feeling / artistry you might as well be a player piano or a music box. I don't know how many more ways i can say it.
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612 Hmm, I guess I've taken your comment out of context,. Sure, soul/feeling matters more than technicality (well, ain't that obvious too? the difference is night and day!). Nontheless, what you are missing here and I think people who are cheering Yamashita's playing is because his playing is inhumane. Trust me, it's not something that can be acheived just by blind hard practice (after all, we are human).
Oh well, you got your false god, Miles Davis? as others cheer at false prophet.
gatsbi007 1 year ago
@gatsbi007 --Did you see the part where i said I'm not really commenting on HIS playing. But anyway it was a nice give and take with you. At least you didn't react like i had blasphemed your god.
tom6612 1 year ago
@gatsbi007 --- (part 2) I think the best example can be found in the blues. Lightin Hopkins is about as unskilled a guitarist as you can find yet he can give a thrilling performance that will give you goosebumps. When you reach the advanced stage of any instrument it is taken for granted that the performer will be able to play very fast so that means almost nothing and thats what Miles Davis understood as i said in my first post.
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612
You clearly haven't listened to any of Yamashita's recordings, otherwise you'd realize how insanely idiotic you sound. Try listening to the 5 CD set where Yamashita plays Bach, and then tell me he can't play slow melodies. For the record, I don't listen to Kazuhito Yamashita for his speed; that's honestly irrelevant to me. His dynamic range, his passion, his control, his ability to transcribe...the list goes on and on without the need to mention his speed.
gunther101 1 year ago
@gunther101 - Well Einstein i don't know how many more times i can say it. Reread my comments slowly. This will be ONLY the third time i have said this. I AM NOT COMMENTING ON YAMAHA SPECIFICALLY. Let me know how many times something has to be repeated for you to grasp it.
You guys are just like religious fanatics whose god has been blasphemed. Am i gonna go to hell unless i repent ?
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612
"I AM NOT COMMENTING ON YAMAHA SPECIFICALLY". Why were you commenting on THIS video then? You know, the one with Kazuhito Yamashita playing. Save your comments for a relevant video.
gunther101 1 year ago
Watched this guy make a mess of Bach at the Conservatory in SF last year. The appeal of a classical music piece is to tell a beautiful story ( pleasant to the ear). Yamashita tells it like a vagrant on crack (lets not exclude Eliot Fisk who could readily join the ranks of the same ilk). I felt so bad for the poor Ramirez 1a in the hands of a being with not one thread of musicianship.
Knocktua 1 year ago
@Knocktua -- Nah he's a God and your only fit to lick his boot (sarcasm off) . So funny to watch the reaction to any criticism of him here. Methinks they doth protest too much. I have to agree with you as to what classical is all about. Tone color and feeling plays such a large part. For example Segovia's version of Mussorgsky's "The Old Castle". So beautiful and such a slow tune .
tom6612 1 year ago
Jorge Caballero plays it nowadays. Search for "Cuadros de una Exposicion by Jorge caballero" here on Youtube.
alaricoffir 1 year ago
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is there any one knows what is the model of that guitar yamashita played? sound very strong and beautiful.
is it ramirez?
vedhot9 1 year ago
he's the greatest. . .and here he was only 23
o.o
Psicotransistor 1 year ago
where is the Aranjuez video? It seemed to be deleted by youtube. Anybody know where else to find it? thanks...
youwangguitar 1 year ago
@youwangguitar Remi Boucher?
ultrabot90 1 year ago
okey. this is certanly not as good as an orchestral version but... yamashita helped to expand technical boundires of the guitar and proved that it's not just a folk instrument for accompagnement. Besides being very expressive and technically empicable his stage presance is mesmorizing. I have yet to see a guitarist that acts like this on stage. We need more people like Yamashita to attract more young people.
jakaput 1 year ago 4
i just don´t like this
renatovcortereal 1 year ago
legendary
BreadsackHeads 1 year ago 24
legendary
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Kazuhito Yamashita kicks all of the keyboard players' asses :D
bogatiakos 2 years ago
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i'd love to hear this on electric
nananaalgoodaye 2 years ago
it's impossible technically and sound wise.
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jolksw 2 years ago
my school plays a shorter version of this as a 7th and 8th grade band but it amazes how he out does our whole band by himself=P
very good
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thejugglenaut90 2 years ago
doryyyaaaaa!!!v crazy yamashita!!! 4ever xD
ironfistking5 2 years ago
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thejugglenaut90 2 years ago
I always tell myself I'm gonna teach myself this piece, then I watch Yamashita play it, and deem it impossible. Lol.
tplaisted22 2 years ago 11
lol how are you going to teach yourself this piece,, its out of the world
richguy11 2 years ago
Has anyone seen Yamashita recently? interested to see if he has any new transcriptions out. Phenomenal guitarist
BHayley 2 years ago
demasiado tosco...¡¡
muy brusco tocando
yamashita esta loco¡¡¡
prefiero muchas veces la versión de jorge caballero, que suena mas refinada y suave...
guchiguchero 2 years ago
no -__ yamashita is so much better than caballero,, he plays sharp becuz he wants to phrase the different instruments of the orchestra, i can hear the distinguishment but i guess you cannot. jorge does not play as well as yamashita does
richguy11 2 years ago 3
truly amazing. Not only its is impressive technically but, and most important, its very musical. 5 stars.
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yamashitasucks 2 years ago
You are amazing
OBEYWEEGEE 2 years ago
Och... so beautiful!
WasoDeCauter 2 years ago
agreed
richguy11 2 years ago
There's an arrangement of this for classical guitar for Powertab (a freeware tab editor.) I can't tell for sure, but I believe it is the same as this arrangement.
unknownkingdom 2 years ago
They have a 'Performance Notes' part which I hadn't read before my previous comment.
In the notes, it says that it is indeed Kazuhito's arrangement.
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1,2,3 chino japone a cua de lo tre re apeta lo pie.
yamashitasucks 2 years ago
This was 25 years ago. Has anyone else tried playing this piece? I am beginning to think that only he has the technique play these pieces.
ricointx 2 years ago 17
ive tried playing it but just looking at the score and trying to find the notes in my fret board is hard work. Also u really need to work with the right and left hand strength, or the promenade 1 wont sound as good.
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Calla chino e mierda.
yamashitasucks 2 years ago
Como te mata la envidia por su talento... Si quieres llegar a ser como el practica hasta la muerte
krakatoakilimanjaro 2 years ago
@ricointx Trevor Rabin did a guitar arrangement of this on his "90126" solo CD but it is extensively overdubbed with many many guitars. It's not a single person arrangement like this. Watching this, I'm astounded.
aliensporebomb 1 year ago
@ricointx i think so. . .
Psicotransistor 1 year ago
@ricointx I was transcribing the piano version for solo classical guitar...and then I found this video, turns out someone has already done it >.>
ultrabot90 1 year ago
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I played it complete in 2003 after almost 10 years of study.I did my best,not so incredible as Master Yamashita but worth hearing.
AntonioRiosecoGuitar 1 year ago
@ricointx
Almost forgot:.hear my version in my channel..if you want to..
AntonioRiosecoGuitar 1 year ago
@ricointx Jorge Caballero plays this too. He plays it perfect.
MelasChupa 1 year ago
@ricointx He really is superior to all classical guitarists, his dynamics, control & expression is in a class all his own. 100 years from now they'll look back at him as without a doubt the best classical guitarist of his time period.
asherasator 1 year ago
@asherasator No they won't, they will just look at him as a freak with a lot of technique with no understanding at all of the music he's playing. There's no musicality at all in this, just exagerated emotions and sounds.
Musicaliters 1 year ago
@Musicaliters Many classical musicians display "exagerated emotions & sounds" when nothing is really going on. What to you is "exagerated" to me is a man who takes the classical guitar LITERALLY TO IT'S LIMITS. U don't have to like him, that's ur opinion, but I kno what it takes to manipulate the instrument to such a degree. Ur just one of those boring old farts who thinks they kno how classical music or guitar should be played. When things don't fit a certain criteria or they put it down.
asherasator 1 year ago
@Musicaliters Music is controlled energy & he has pushed it to its limits thru his chosen instrument. If u don't like guys who take their cars to top speed & highest level, too bad. Classical music has no real defined definitions from the masters, just scores & some notes & they can be interpreted in a variety of ways & speeds. That's what make its interesting as well as show the different abilities & talents of musicians. The classical greats ALL pushed the limits in 1 way or another.
asherasator 1 year ago
@Musicaliters If you have seen this entire performance, including The Old Castle, you wouldn't say that
tplaisted22 1 year ago
@ricointx Jorge Caballero make it better! But Yamashita is a great guitarrist!!!
fellipson 1 year ago
Not so much good sound.
saito1254 2 years ago
We all BOW before the genius of Yamashita!
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He seems to have some kind of wonderful affinity with this barbaric music
petersuki 2 years ago
Watch Yamashita play The Hut of Baba-Yaga and The Bahatyr Gate of Kiev too! Pure genius.
watch?v=VwnYkg6CvcA
XeroK00L 2 years ago
Fucking Brilliant!
aldovogelfrei 2 years ago
this adaptation for guitar is simply the work of a genius
giuseppeverdi9 2 years ago 3
Probably the single most astonishing classical guitar performance I've ever seen--the range of timbres, the imagination, the musicality and virtuosity are unrivaled. Yamashita was a true pioneer and visionary.
mgerakos 2 years ago 5
he should play duo with paul zukofsky.
johnnyutah1231 2 years ago
This guy is incredible
lucianocraveiro 2 years ago 5
The history of the Guitar is divided this way:
BK/AK = Before Kazuhito/After Kazuhito
rolandpalm 2 years ago 6
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With all my respect I do not believe in absolutes. He is an excellent one, but there are betters.
frajamasi 2 years ago
Thank you for your comments. Could you please tell us who are those fellows? I guess they are at least in the very same technical level. Thanks!
RangelPalm 2 years ago 2
LOL
spruceorcedar 2 years ago
Onde consigo a fita cassete ou algo parecido desse concerto? alguém possui ?
CavaleroDelgado 2 years ago
все азиаты должны умереть
chinosdemierda 2 years ago
κάθε Ασιάτης είναι ένας φτωχός γάιδαρος
chinosdemierda 2 years ago
Unbeliefeable ... wordless
Oderwat 2 years ago
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Learn words.
wootenjr 2 years ago
no words only amazing 5 stars and the second part??
zeitboy24 2 years ago 2
why does he play movin' all his body so much???
JeffNicho303 2 years ago
Because he plays with his whole body
arekkusu0123456789 2 years ago 19
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Because he has something known as passive epilepsy. rather then having one big seizure every once in a while he has constant small seizures.
trainteeth 2 years ago
A beautiful guitar transcription of one of my all time favourite pieces of music. I prefer Vladimir Horowitz piano version, some prefer the Sviatislav Richter piano version, but Yamashita does a damn fine guitar version. I also like Jimi, JB, JP, and SRV, but have to say nice work Kazuhito :)
Can I recommend Gareth Koch from Australia, does an amazing acoustic guitar version of Carmina Burana, originally written for full orchestra + 100 piece choir, Gareth does it on 1 guitar, live.
lensdarkly 2 years ago
A classical guitarist would never compare him/herself to a pop musician so why are there so many out there belittling there art by insisting on doing so? Would you pop pickers ever compare a boogie woogie pianist to Richter or Kissin?
CardiffClassicGuitar 2 years ago
I had yet another YouTube encounter 4 days ago it went like this:
Owen: Jimi was "the greatest muscian of the 20th century"
Entropy: "You have no idea what you are talking about. How about limiting it to a certain kind of music from a certain era, and a certain electric instrument?"
Owen: "he didnt have to....music is music, 12 notes, only thing that changes is the tone of the sound"
At "Jimi Hendrix LuLu Show 1969 **FULL**"
I rest my case. Hendrix (and Rock) fans are stupid.
Entropy56 2 years ago
and yet another youtube encounter with entropy. it went like this
me: oh god its entropy
entropy:durr hurr hurf durf </3 jimi hendrix hurr hurr durr
me: cool story bro
entropy: durrr
trainteeth 2 years ago
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TheShredworthy 2 years ago
kazuhito played the firebird a couple days back at his concert. it was incrediable play same as this.
sincererities 2 years ago
gee yamashita compared to hendrix. whats next. steve vai compared to paganini.
i dont think kazuhito could play rock and blues as well as hendrix, but hendrix couldnt touch this guy on a nylon string. its apples and oranges, i enjoy both of them for who they are and what they play.
trainteeth 2 years ago 6
I've never seen such a good comparison.
Yeah apples and oranges, I have to keep that in mind.
guitar17johnny 2 years ago
Entropy56 and dunholy, take it easy people, you all here seem to be people who understand. but dont argue for absolutely no reason at all. If we start comparing Jimi and Kazuhito, then we can can just as well start comparing Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd or John Bonham to Billy Cobham. This is absurd!!! Jimi was a unique personality and musician and no one could ever come close to what he was doing, and Miles himself knew that too. BUTTT, Kazuhito is brilliant and a MONSTER at what he is doing here
submerge7system 2 years ago 2
Not even close. The arsenal of technical and subtitle guitar skills of Yamashita go over most peoples heads. Not even close...
Entropy56 2 years ago
oh my god.
oh my god.
this is unreal!!
wow!!!
isthatacareer 2 years ago
かなり昔の演奏ですが改めて彼の演奏を聴いてみると、彼の天才的才能を実感します。
日本に彼の様な演奏家が居る事を誇りに思います。
彼の演奏は「ギターは小さなオーケストラだ」という言葉がぴったりのスケールの大きさを感じます。
pockypocky100 2 years ago 3
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Menuda mierrda la que escribes, chino japones de mierrrdaaa!!!!. Kazuhito Yamashita: A LA MIERRRRDAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
chinosdemierda 2 years ago
Este Hombre es un Genio... Gracias por subir estos videos... sinceramente un Maestro....
cepelyn 2 years ago
despues del tremolo 3:19
4:09 me parece alucinante
como lo hara
*****
astrodelacumbia 2 years ago
Brilliant performance...the second movement, The Old Castle, is particularly haunting on guitar. As the tune was written to represent a trobadour's music played on (probably) a lute, it is instructive to hear it played on such a lute-like instrument.
marshallkingofallyap 2 years ago
there where more parts of this videos and they are all gonne......anyone knows something????
alex12gods 2 years ago
Hey!
I was wondering the same. You could see the final part of the piece in which he imitates a choir with the guitar! A miracle of beauty I say.
I tried a link I saved to that video and it said it had been removed due to infringement. But who in the world would remove a piece of such beauty from public view!
Anyway, If anybody knows something else about these videos, or knows who post them, PLEASE, THE WORLD NEEDS THEM!!!!!
arekkusu0123456789 2 years ago
LOL, the way he's bobbing and weaving.. i wonder if he's ever bruised his face doing that.
But damn, he's a unique player, gifted, and he uses his proclivities (speed, agility, dynamics) extremely well, and with supremely passionate, emotionally desperate intensity.
As far as I know he's not a writer/composer (is he?) but he's certainly an elite performer... an interpretive musical artist...
parzimmy99 2 years ago 2
This is really clever.
toogoodformusic 2 years ago