Recuerdos de la Alhambra

[poistok]

pepe playing la mejor version de este tema la escucho siempre

[blunklaura]

This is amazingly beautiful !

I am shocked--this is the only version that I liked of RDLA that was played so SMOOTHLY and magnificently !

Gave me goosebumps!

Bravissamo !

[Azazello321]

@blunklaura Absolutlely! This is the most perfect performance i've heard yet... perfect timing, pathos, everything! Brilliant!...

[atfed]

meraviglioso!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[strangerinthelight]

absolutely beautiful....

[Huffinearts]

Aye? speak up sonny I can barley hear you: where is my ear horn?

[Azazello321]

This is the finest interpretation i've seen yet... i agree with the previous comment: people usually play it too fast... i think this piece should be played much slower... Excellent!

[hueseph]

So many people try to play this piece and fail miserably. Too fast. Too slow. Too sloppy. Too mechanical. This is such a fine performance. If you dare to click on any of the related links you will only find disappointment. A beautiful song, well played here.

[Boldark]

la conocí gracias a los soprano

[lsophial]

I love it!

[alichuroloco]

¡Qué preciosidad!

[busterxx1033]

As I stated in a previous post, this is one of my favorites. And about Segovia. When pursing doctoral courses at Columbia, I moved into an apartment that Segovia had moved out of the nite before. He left a guitar pick which I cherish. Two days later, Giumar Novaes (classical pianist) moved in the apartment across the hall. And later Price Henri of Monaco moved into the basement apartment. (wanted American experience before returning home),

[DanielDeGregoriis]

:D Segovia and a guitar pick?

That's like Bush Jr. and Bin Laden having tea :D

[hueseph]

@DanielDeGregoriis Well. Bush and Bin Laden may have had tea but Segovia with a plectrum? That would never happen.

[luisricardo00]

Que bella interpretació y que limpieza en el sonido y el mecanismo. Bravo Romero, eres otro gran Maestro del más sugestivo instrumento

[raulaerosmith]

Although what i said he is a MONSTER !!

Slower, but awesome technique

[raulaerosmith]

excellent performance but, why do you put this on the playlist next to narciso yepez? everything looks dull behind his great interpretation

[ernika22]

My heart cry everytime when I hear this piece, and I don't know what it is...

[Courious680522]

Your hearth cry because this piece touch directly your soul. As for me, is one of the master pieces of classical music. Greetings

[busterxx1033]

Yes! It really hits the heart. And the Alhambra is one of the most beautiful places on earth. I visited it in 1987 when cruising on the with a classical music group!

[ernika22]

You're lucky visiting that place...

I'd like to be there.

Hugs :D

[area51restroom]

stunning

[tarrega96]

abbastanza bravo.......

[avpny1346]

in 1965 i found muself in the cortyard of the Alhambra palace (Franco was there also!)

a man played the most beutifull kitar music

(i did notknow that clasical guitar exsist.."

was 18 y.o.bulgarian...a lady also sang spanish songs with the acompaniment of the

guitar.....i did nit know at the time what a

wonder was i witnessing.....Segovia was playing "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" the lady singing was Victoria de Los Angeles!!!!!!

IMAGINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[decemberflowerr]

the best way, place, and moment to die.

[hsoenario]

Wow!!!! Serious?

I heard Victoria 3 times and spend hours talking to her, but you are sooo lucky as she and Segovia were at the Alhambra.Please tell us more about that special concert.

Did you know that Victoria de Los Angeles can play the guitar well and sings accompaning herself? IK have that recording.

Thanks for your story.

[Legna1166]

a mi me ha encantado la interpretación, mucho sentimiento y la tecnica impecable que hay muchos que el tremolo parece un caballito... tocotoc tocotoc , jeje.

[Werfen09]

Just accept that it is fantastic.

[Sbazz89]

this is beautiful

[numa301]

ha pepe romero

[luisantonio47]

interpretación fabulosa, sigo creyendo que williams y andrés segovia lo tocan mejor, es cuestión de gustos, pero es de las mejores obras para guitarra de todos los tiempos. de tárrega también les recomiendo Capricho árabe. hace ya algunos años yo interpretaba esta pieza pues la tocaba mi abuelo paterno, mi tío, que fue mi maestro y a mi padre la fascina. es todo un recorrido de recuerdos y sentimientos

[benavides86]

La mejor versión que he escuchado, incluso (a mi gusto xD) que la de John Williams, el color que le logra dar, los aumentos y disminusiones de la intesidad, grande Pepe xD

[GuardNine]

se, a mi tmb me gustó xD!!

a mi me encanta la tecnica del tremolo, pero todavia soy pt para tocarla xD

[topoxulo]

ufffffffffffffffffffffff madre mia como escarpias los pelos se me ponen mi padre le encantaba ya no esta pero quedo en mi memoria

te quiero papa donde quiera que estes esperame en el cielo corazon...

[somethingfunnyboy]

you don't know what you're talking about. pepe has the best tremolo i've ever heard - barrueco? pfft.

[warrkrymez]

It's funny that if you don't write about how godly you think the player is, everyone jumps on you. But in this case they just give you thumbs down, probably because they can't argue. All I gotta say is this: the Romeros have been playing these pieces so much they think it's trivial to play them. People always want to hear the old classics over and over: there's new stuff that the artist wishes one would appreciate as well.

[Slackerx89]

what you said is true to a certain extent. one can play it after practising 21363 times. but not everyone can play it like him.

[warrkrymez]

I can name so many other people that surpass him. Lol!

[Slackerx89]

can you?

[warrkrymez]

Daniel Erni, Zoltan Tokos, Marcos Tsessos, Denis Azabagic...just to name a few guitarists that people don't listen to.

[subatomicllove]

Que bella interpretacion!!!!!!!BRAVO!

[surfyrock]

Muy, pero que muy buena esa cancion

[30fuVkingdollars]

this is so BEAUTIFUL makes me cry.

[cosbysweata]

lol

[30fuVkingdollars]

wishful thinking ASSWIPE! and quit sending messages wanting to have sex with me or i'll report you!!!

[bobbycamp101]

sorry did i interrupt your crying?

[avsdavidt1]

I love it -- very intimate and personal. The master is at work.

[Ohm51]

I much prefer this rendering over the more strict way that Yepes plays this piece ... but then I only know of the song from a recording I have had for 20 years as played by Segovia.

And this seems to me to be very close to Segovia's phrasing and dynamic approach. I wish the audio fidelity was a bit better defined in this clip though.

[Lepremierpas]

very good

[ov58]

Una muy buena interpretación,pone alma en la guitarra para interpretar esta pieza.

[petitejolie19]

Uffff....para rendirse.... sólo comparable a un atardecer en la Alhambra......

[usavsusavsusa]

Williams plays a fine rendition also, I don't remember Bream's too well. But if is Bream it has got to be good. Masterfi; performance!! Pepe rules and the last time I saw him (master class) he had the most beautiful wife/girlriend. So it is not just the rock guitarists.

[DemonsBane]

It's slow because that's how it was written...the song is meant to get faster and slower, louder and softer at the players discretion while they listen to themselves playing...and it's FREAKING HARD!!!!!

[BritishSteal]

maybe just a tad slower at parts and it's perfect

[Auronx92]

beautiful playing

and nice song

its very relaxing

[WiNdSpLiNTer1293]

B-R-A-V-O!!!

[avianavigo]

ala xurxo, aprendetela tu...xDDD

[AmericanDiaz]

This song is the most beautiful piece ever that represents a time and place long gone.

And nobody, I mean no body plays this piece as sincere and as perfect as Bream. Pepe comes incredibly close though. The proper way to play this song is as if you miss your country and your family enough to almost break. As if a war tore you from her.

[majadahonda]

S.O.A.B.

[darkblueline]

just PERFECT!!!  yapılmış,yapılacak en güzel müziklerden birisi. sanki bu dünyaya ait değil...

[30fuVkingdollars]

this is sooo BEAUTIFUL!!!

thank YOU so much!

[egle8bae]

I liked this playing of the guitar! I enyoyed it so much. Kotre

[Charliefan4]

Nice tempo

[qwqepqq]

B-E-A-UTIFUL

[jmc8197]

The speed is perfect

[pablomauser]

Cuanta sensibilidad hay que tener para tocar ésta pieza!!

[oldmusictradition]

Good sound but too much of the Rubato makes it little too cheesy

[BritishSteal]

YES! this is sooo much better that stupid sharon isbin's version. it's soft but fast and he increases the tempo stressing the proper parts or decreases it. It's not perfect but it's still really good, would interpret a bit differently but other than that this is one of the best versions by far

[deekdooken]

Yes, and everyone is a critic

[qwerasolk]

best tremolo i've ever heard, soft and clean, this guy owns

[pablomauser]

The Best

[Shyla2h]

triste la melodia pero mui linda al mismo tiempo te hace pensar en muxas cosas...

[IIIIIIII]

This version of his is better than the one when he was younger. His flow is just perfect. If you close your eyes, you can hear the trickling of water from a fountain in the Alhambra when he plays.

[xsknight]

hee is wonderful he is everything he makes love with guitar.Best RLDA for sure!

[schnaauzi]

A little faster, please, next time.

[barisaquarius]

one of the best

[xsknight]

he is the best in every thing.EMotioon,technuqie.... unique!. I love u PEPE

[berlineagle]

Seldom has a piece of music touched me so deeply as the Recuerdos de la Alhambra. It is simply fabulous.

[chicomusico]

pablomouser es que tu nunca has visto un video de andres segovia cuando era joven es increible casi sobre natural su forma de tocar no solo tenia estilo tambien una rapides inigualable pero lastima que aqui solo hay videos de cuando ya estaba muy mayor y esas aptitudes de la juventud de segovia ya no se aprecian

[ramirez4e]

Gracias, maestro.

[pablomauser]

En mi opinión, ésta interpretación de "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" es la mejor en YouTube.

[Holland1953]

This is a beautiful piece but can someone help me? I can swear that I can hear two guitars.

[Moreno53]

What you are hearing is the plucking done by the thumb and index finger and the rapid strumming of the other three. Thats what makes this piece so impressive.

[Noichberg]

One guitar- lots of guys do this tremolo well. Listen to Lenny Breau. What makes this song hard is that most of the tremolo is on the b string, which is harder to achieve a good tone....

[achsofromm]

Touching and melancholy, yet uplifting. I like his CD too...the one with this on it. The answer to how long it takes to become this good is most likely "never will you be this good." Musicians like this are not very common and have a gift or innate ability. Music though can be appreciated and pursued even if it is not on this level. Goryachev and of course Paco de Lucia are also members of this genius club.

[jumaik]

No puedo creer que e su edad este tocando asi, yo tengo 6 meses de tocar guitarra y ya puedo tocar esta pieza sin problema alguno, y eso que solo practico unas 12 horas diarias.., me han dicho que es muchisimo pero dah, tengo muy pero muy buenos resultados

[pablomauser]

No es solo lo que toca, sino como la sensación que hace sentir a los demás cuando interpreta.

Mira a Andrés Segovia: Puede ser que un chico de 25 años sea mas ágil con los dedos pero jamás podrá igualar tal grandeza.

[Padrino789]

you guys should watch Scott Tennant playing Recuerdos de la Alhambra, his very good too

[91PieRo91]

Pepe Romero...

i like this guitarist

[tarrox]

how long? im playing 8 years and i can play this song without problems

[Sazuck]

im in my 7th year now and ive just startet to lear this one but I think im am still many years away from his level

[Holland1953]

Sazuck, even if you were in your 70th year, you would still be learning. Even the veterans would tell you that. Best wishes, though!

[OhMymy]

how and how long does one have to practice to be this good?

[xsknight]

it is the beeeeeest

[PREINRCELAT]

genial brillante y hermosa melodia de Tarrega

[KangBatman]

It's a wrong posture (who care anyway, hehehehehehe) he is great.

[stuart000001]

it's a different posture because he is principally a flamenco guitarist, not a pure classical guitarist

[Oisin2]

Great song, played well. Shame about the recording quality though... Anyone know why this is from a Korean recording?

[carefreemusic]

wow... i should say i can play this piece but cant play like him... it wld take decades to develop the emotion that would master this piece... RESPECT!!!

[KangBatman]

Seriously, I tried this song couple of time, but I don't know how to play the trill part.

[NorizZo]

so amazing.

[Sylvia1938]

Lovely!

[soniameh]

if you like pepe try listening to david russel he's too good

[pablomauser]

lo mejor de lo mejor!

[aruhga]

Cagalho...

[crypticseth]

This by far one of my favorite songs. And played Great!

[chacha421]

I am fan of both JW and Pepe equally--- but I think the spaniards grow up hearing this stuff since birth ---- they really know how to express the emotion and the local flavor of the spanish stuff.

[sretep]

John Williams is great, but I think he plays spanish music like an Englishman on vacation. Love his Bach though, anyway they're all great. The only guy who plays this that I compare to Pepe is David Russell. Russell's Scottish but he grew up in Spain almost his whole life, which explains it.

[musicloveranthony]

Xuefei yang's interpretation is extremely impressive. I'll send it to you if you're interested.

[sretep]

I would be. I am not a huge fan of her, but I have not heard her play this piece. My friend Johannes Moller plays it very well, his video is on youtube.

[giorgiopicker]

perfect,

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[buchanj]

Pepe is new to me and I'm finding it so hard not to put him above my favourite Bream.

[gutplucker]

I think he's playing this just right. Great emotion!

[disgruntledemployee]

You're absolutely correct. Master Pepe is doing exacltly what he was born to do. Play the guitar like nobody else.

[LaGuitarraRomantica]

Pepe Romero is the best there is on youtube. He adds feeling to the song not like the many that rush through it like machines.

[jimmyp37]

1:42 could be the most beautiful moment in all of the guitar literature... so magical. Pepe's eyebrows are as expressive as his guitar is. I wish I loved my job as much as he does his!!

[dndong]

I thought Pepe's performance was the best RDLA performance 20 years ago. I still think it is the best today. The distinction between this and other performances is the kind of freedom of imagination I experienced while listening to it. The subtle variation in tempo is a reflection of the ultimate artistic expression.

[Jitpring]

Actually, JW's is better.

[dndong]

JW is wonderful too, but I personally like Pepe's treatment better. This is subjective, but as I said above, my mind is completely set free when listening to Pepe's performance. This a major criteria for me.

[fuckthepain]

Your tremolo is a tad unsteady. Not bad though. Overall, nice sound. Keep it up!!!

[what567]

lmao.

[CosmicOsmo]

I really really hope this is sarcasm...hard to tell some times.

[guitarist147]

you're funny :)

[xsknight]

his tremolo takes you to somewhere in which you feel the sense of freedom like a flying bird

[jimmyp37]

10 years legglas... yea that is about what it takes to get to pieces like this. There is no magic formula as you I am sure now know. It is only hard work that gets one here. Great work and keep it up... so many years ahead of you to play. Keep this music alive!!

[Jitpring]

Actually, I've been working on this piece for a week and am well on my way to nailing it.

[Jitpring]

Oh, you said to "get to" pieces like this. I get it. An exaggeration, but understood.

[legglas]

Ive been playing classical guitar for almost 10 years now (im only 19), and that song was one my music teacher played the during my first lesson and she told me "keep practicing and one day you will be playing song's like this". I am proud to say that i can play this piece now, although not as smoothly as Pepe, one day perhaps ;-)

[jimmyp37]

it's in his blood. Viva Pepe!

[boone14]

Saint Francisco Tarrega! Too bad some viewer thinks it is played too long....(Thanks McDonald's Hamburger..no waiting in line three.) Hopefully, we're returning to REAL guitar playing once again. This piece is played tremolo style...try it sometime and you'll appreciate what you just heard.

[socialgroup]

I do appreciate it considering i can only play 30 smoothly before messing up. It's a great thing to see when played by masters of that level. and do not count on the fast food craze going away any time soon. some people are trying to get fat you know.

[RafaelF000001]

that joke about Mcdonalds is really funny

[thastankanator]

This is wayyy to long.... Please don't take all repeats. He alters the tempo too much as well. good trem though, like a robot.

[MinimusSymplexus]

It is a god!!

[sherlock27]

it is like water flows

[pablomauser]

IMPRESIONANTE. Eso es mas que música.

[Jakrahal]

OK how the hell is he playing this song with one guitar????? i thought it was two???? I can play this song and theres no way you can play it with 1 guitar, you need two, one for the melody, and the other for the continuos harmony in the background,.. am I missing something?

[riverrat2006]

Your response is the reason I sold my strat back in "71".I found out Hendrix had nothing on Segovia!If you play give a few of the studies a go.

[wildeyed]

The "continuous harmony" is called a tremolo, and it's one of the most difficult techniques for classical guitar. It is played with the three longer fingers, and the melody is played with the thumb. Alot of people have reactions similar to yours when they first hear pieces like this. Many Fugueish contrupuntal pieces can have that effect as well. Many people also have this reaction when they first hear chet atkins style music.

[binhmu]

Wildeyed , in this piece , the tremolo line IS the melody .

Regards

[f15x28]

The melody is played with i, m, a (index, middle, ring) in tremolo form and the bass notes are played with p (pulgar). Of course, WAY easier said than done.

[Bullerias]

I agree, this is the best version on YouTube

[janwillem22]

Sounds masterfull? :-)...because it's played by one, pepe romero is amazing. Not only in this song, but in most of his songs, I totaly agree with his interpretation...And if you play guitar yourself, you know how difficult it is to put such emotion in a song.

[stridebird]

I am a guitar student, quite a novice I guess as I heard this for the first time here. It blows me a away, it's an incredibly moving song. I think it sounds like realising that a place you love you will never go back to again. It really gets me. And after checking out all the other versions on the site, this one is the best. It sounds (to me) masterful.

[5stringofFernandoSor]

dude, that's exactly what the song is about "Remains of Alhambra"

[wbeuche]

Actually, recuerdos means "memories".

[fleabassmdq]

pepe is oustanding, this one is much better than segovia's version.

[enna666]

segovia never played this piece in concert, both versions are very nice

[kyunghwee]

ah...PEPE...the best of the best!

[owenz12]

Excellent, but not Segovia.

[randomcitizen]

just perfect performance

[lovermann]

Very clear playin. Awesome!

[Notrobbiewilliams]

Awesome accuracy, brilliant phrasing, colour and tone - Francisco would be proud.

[januthin]

Super good. Best version yet. Great feel, super accurate.