Hopkinson Smith

[ericoschmitt]

he played in my city in Brasil today, and i didnt go because i thought i would learn more by studying other 2 hours of cello, now i see im wrong..

[porpoisefathom]

30 years of classical guitar --now my hands are fucked with carpel tunnel! all i wanted now was to play the vihuela...ugh

[Mikesmoreno]

Vihuella´s Glenn Gould....

[javikingo]

sencillamente brillante

[28ElmaritAsph]

The second piece is Narvaez's intabulation of Josquin's song 'Mille Regrets'.

[28ElmaritAsph]

The piece is 'Conde Claros' set to the vihuela by Luy de Narvaez.

[porpoisefathom]

thank you so much for telling me this..i have wanted to know this peice for years..kudos!! it beautiful

[28ElmaritAsph]

My teacher!

[porpoisefathom]

what is this piece?

[xYEAHxKYLEx]

no your a fool

hopkinson smith is great

[ska2808]

Eh fuck

[venierclo]

Exelente!! musico con exprecion y naturalidad. muy Grosso-

[Modes9]

It's even cooler than sackbutts and krummhorns...

[jjjiiitttlll]

Клёво!! :)

[Blake12000]

Wonderful playing and instrument. It's shame it doesn't have Vihuela in it's title! It was by chance that I found in my Vihuela searches and if I hadn't I would have missed out on so much! Thanks for sharing this. So beautiful...

[veggieburgerfish]

☻

/ю\ Bob likes to play vihuela

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[marvelousXthings]

I like this piece of music...and the vihuela is very pretty sounding, I may want to learn it some day.

[CiscoNast]

This guy is a fool

[porpoisefathom]

where can i get a vihuela? and how much are they?

[riceboii101]

they are quite expensive you gotta get one custom made by a luthier.

[TexasSizzle]

Luthiers all over the world manily in Spain, South America , England, Italy and USA and Russia, maybe now in China. Cheapest I have seen is starting at about $1450 south american but that was awhile back.

[guitarclasic4693]

q relajacion

ahhhh

hermoso

[JohannesKapsberger]

Who can play the lute like Hopkinson Smith??

And anyway there are more posted vids with other players...I don´t get it!

Like for me Hopkinson Smith is like a prophete!

[donbribon]

Lute??? Vihuela de mano, my friend

[AlbrechtMayer]

I´m surprised that there ain´t more posted videos with this wonderful luteplayer who has recorded the most famous works by the most well known composers of the history.

Hopkinson Smith is one of the best luteplayers ever.

[qacuxa49]

como se llama ese instrumento?

[dscutsinger]

renaissance vihela..

[majamo7]

pues es la vihuela (creo) que es un antecesor de la guitarra.

Saludos.

[zyyodum]

Nó, cara! Vi esse senhor tocando ontem! Massa demais! Sensacional!

[MaestroCanedo]

Eu tava lá também. Realmente excepcional.

[C6H12B26]

The Romances were written before they were partly set to music. It is the case of "De Antequera sale el Moro"(set to music by Morales with a version with vihuela by Fuenllana) & Conde Claros. Listen to the CD "El Delfin de Musica" Juan Carlos Rivera (vihuela) Marta Almajano (soprano). Track 2 is their brilliant interpretation of "Conde Claros". Diana Poulton quotes this in her "A tutor for the Renaissance Lute" (Schott). Best wishes.

[dominiquedv]

Dear M. Hopkinson Smith. I saw you two years ago in Sedan, France. You were so gentle, and gave me your hand, I thought I would never more wash my hand who touched the hand of a so great maestro like you. As video comment my little debut on the baroc guitar you played also in Sedan, where I saw you two times.

[LutenistDeMari]

People who cough should be banned.

[LutenistDeMari]

What!? they should be banned! Segovia told people off for coughing while he played. He may have been a royalist pig but he had a point.

[C6H12B26]

Excellent ! As "Hoppy" knows, the best is to sing the following at the beginning of "Conde Claros" : 4 times the first variation plus the following note from the second one : " Media noche era por filo, Los gallos querian cantar, Conde Claros con amores No podia reposar ; Dando muy grandes suspiros Que el amor le hacia dar, Por amor de Claranina, No le deja sosegar." (Romance del Conde Claros de Montalban). In this version (432 lines) there is a happy end : Conde Claros & Claranina get married.

[LutenistDeMari]

Could you explain this comment about singing along with Conde Claros? Does it have something to do with the original song on which the variations are based?

[CarlosMacMartin]

I enjoyed the first piece,but feel like he

rushed thru the second & third pieces.Still a

great musician!

[BubCar2]

The vihuella was a much more delicate instrument than the modern guitar, with closely spaced strings that required very neat fingering. Hopkinson Smith plays with the sort of care & grace that is required to bring this pretty instrument to life.

[Dominicussen]

I really love how people like Hopkinson and Savall use their great intellects to understand and communicate forgotten realms of music. I am a classical guitar player, but I am definitely going to buy a lute and play some more renaissance music because of them. Thanks

[ThisDream]

You may have to cut your nails!

[leandrobeikes]

wonderful!!

[dwarvengiant]

what is the name of the pieces he is playing, or even if you know the name of the composer

[Walvis2007]

Conde Claros

[Brucis51]

1. Conde Carlos (Luis de Narvaez, Valladolid, 1538)

2. Cancion del Emperador (Luis de Narvaez)

3. Finale (Guardame las vacas, Luis de Narvaez)

From "Los seys libros del Delphin de musica"

[pedroalfonso2000]

Nobody knows how the vihuela was played. Actualy there are only two old surviving instruments, one in Paris and one in Quito-Ecuador (belonged to Saint Marianita and is kept in the church La Compañia). So just listen to the music and forget the technique, I suggest.

Pedro Paez

[Decimatyx]

Are either these of these two instruments you speak of still playable?

[pedroalfonso2000]

I really do not know. I assume the wood is too week because of the time and could brake with the chords tension. If you are interested I can scan an article and e-mail it to you. Pedro

[IaNdAcRiPwAlKa]

dayymm he's good :)

[gkertsopoulos]

Bravo!Excellent performance.

[welltuned24]

I play several plucked stringed instruments including the vihuela, and really enjoyed watching this performance. As always Hoppy plays with a nuance and grace not always present in live performance; it takes a lot to convincingly pull that out of a vihuela and in such a relaxed manner. My only complaint is that the Internet can scarce do justice to the subtlety of the instrument, but never mind that, thanks for posting. Cool beans!

[mosad07]

Adam mükemmelde salonda oturanlar öksürüp aksırmaktan geberiyorlar etmişler içine..

[arbist]

afortunadamente viene a vernos a Denia cada poco y disfrutamos de él en petit comite.

[RyelandMoonshine]

I've come to the conclusion that he looks like the wisest person I've seen in all my life.

[manitou1]

funny you should say that, hopkinson's brother is my professor who is one of the wisest person ive met

[LemonadeBoy]

Well, I guess the two apples didn't fall far from each other? :)

[k5xcpq6]

Loved it

[8R8]

this music should be played exactly as this gentleman is playing it: with the renaissance thumb-under position. to play it with fingers perpendicular to the strings would result in horrible classical guitar sound...

[ThisDream]

replace horrible with stylistically questionable please, you silly person.

[tbiggsy]

also as far as vihuela goes we know very little about it but, there are dipictions of players with both thumb in and thumb under positions. So it is understood that it was a performers choice.

[ThisDream]

exactly, Hopkinson, today, sounds fantastic thumb under, so he should do it, but if a modern player finds thumb out sounds better, he should do it.

[topmusiccritic]

Bravo!

[mignal]

He's playing a Vihuela, using what is thought to be the historically correct technique. His right hand fingers act like a fine artists brush strokes. This chap knows what he's doing.

[RobySanI]

His right hand is precisely in the right position. Don't worry about this, listen to the music!

[thastankanator]

His right hand is practically facing up towards his face! I wonder why he plays that way.

[sretep]

it is correct for historically informed performance of vihuela. you could argue for or against it ergonomically, but if you want to play it the way they did, that's correct.

[Curatica]

Hopkinson Smith deserves all his fame, although his right hand position is unusal indeed... :-).

[patoruzitopampeano]

Excelente como siempre...la capacidad de expresar enc todo lo que hace...y qué fraseo, que elegancia...Acierto seguro con Hopy.

[hermawanlukman]

Nice playing , it is a vihuella isn't it?

[RFeynman]

What piece is this?

[RFeynman]

Errr, pieces...

[RFeynman]

Err, I mean pieces....

[JPTRAN]

Video de Hopkinson Smith interprétant 3 morceaux de Vihuela de

"Los seys libros del Delphin de musica" de Luys de Narvaez :

1) Veynte y dos diferencias de Conde claros (sesto libro)

2) la cancion del Emperador, Mille regres del quarto tono de Josquin des Prez (tercero libro)

3) Una baxa de contra punto (sesto libro)

[RFeynman]

Brilliant.

[nlimnj]

Wow, this is neat music. I'm just fascinated with his right hand position. It looks just like the paintings from the Italian Renaissance. Wonder if Mr. Smith adopted the right-hand position from the paintings, or if he somehow worked it out himself that this was the best way to place the right hand.

[JPTRAN]

The right-hand position is called "figueta estranjera" (thumb under the index)used during renaissance to play the lute in europe.

[HappyRick]

Exactly JPTRAN. Smith is a lutenist and plays the vihuela as a lute using 1 of 4 right hand diminuations for the lute. This particular one, figueta estranjera is also known as the foreign style. For vihuela, the correct right hand diminuation is thumbs out & not thumb under the index.

[HappyRick]

The 3 other right hand lute styles are

(1) Castilian --- where the thumb crosses over the index finger (opposite of figueta estanjera technique where the index crosses the thumb);

(2) Redoblar de dedillo -- where the index finger moves back and forth across the string

(3) Index with middle finger - like vihuela & modern classical technique, but modern classical also uses the anular (ring) finger.

[laudguitarra]

maravilla!!!

[guitaristdotcom]

Mille regretz. Nice.

[qminusi]

Wonderful.

[pgainf]

Great music!!!!