Recuerdos de la Alhambra played by John Williams

[lorenzoasun]

la  guitarra bien pero como payaso le falta una poco

[1ceCold037]

this is truly, beautiful, wonderful musical.

[kinvara1933able]

its in print, that segovia once said of john williams, one of his students many years ago now, that he had great hands, and john said that the lessons were good but not brilliant.

perhaps johns technique was too precice for spanish music. or was he a new gaeneration?

[yuchiminami]

very interesting consideration,congratulations.­..you want to talk hard so i don't understand,don't you,testa de cazzo?.."bollocks"...by the way,don't be so upset:it's not your fault if you don't know shit about classic guitar..you can try with other stuff :jercking off on you porn,for example...!...

[yuchiminami]

i think John Williams is the greatest classical guitarist in the world,but the spanish music for guitar (tarrega,sor...) is not for him...he's an absolut genius in playng Bach,Handel,ecc,but i think he don't like so much this music..however,his tremolo is not so perfect:check out paco de lucia's tremolo,for example...and this interpretation is not so good:too fast,too strong...spanish pieces for guitar have to be played with more smoothness...

[zen234]

@yuchiminami Bollocks!!

[HootyToledo]

Andrés Segovia didn't see it that way, and i'm pretty sure he knew a thing or two about the Spanish guitar.

[JamesAedan]

@yuchiminami I have to disagree. I'm quite a fan of Paco, but it's a different tremolo technique. It's flamenco tremolo, Thumb Index Ring Middle Finger Index, not "classical" tremolo like John is using, that's T R M I .

The "problem" with the flamenco tremolo is that it's not that clear like the classical tremolo, but sounds more fluid if done right.

And yes I agree, a spanish piece sounds better with that extra smoothness.

But still, John's tremolo is perfect, but different.

[gsavage77]

I don't even know how this is possible. How do you get your fingers to act independently like that? What, is this dude part octopus? Crazy talent.

[Kamalayka22]

THEY WILL COME, AND THEY WILL COME IN PEACE.

[Aaarrrggghhification]

Yay :D

[designshdlandy]

i will keep this music in my childhood memories and i'll till to my children abut it :( if it still uploaded it on this youtube channel :(

[freebird8867]

parecem dois violões: um solando e outro acompanhando.

bem que dizia meu pai: "um bom homem vale por dois"!

Show !!!!

[JPPatrol]

What's withe floyd rose at 4:52? xD Bitchin' as always

[Eoshatt]

This sounds easy! Let's try it! *Grabs sheets* Holy Mary mother of God save me from this beautiful monster.

[sunnyclarke2005]

Tigergod92 yes I think the same. He plays it differently these days. He still plays the best version in my humble opinion.

[Tigergod92]

he's great... I can play that song but it's extremely difficult and he does not make one single mistake, I think. to play it in public is always kind of an adventure - i love the way he slows down just to pick up the pace again... brilliant!

imo the only thing that could be different is his speed - in some moments he's too fast; i think the song develops its full beauty if it were just a little slower... well, at least that's what I think ;)

anyway, just brilliant!!

[j3d1m4st3r1]

does anyone know what song they were playing at the beginning?

[otoro65041]

@j3d1m4st3r1 Cavatina

[ronshay3488]

@j3d1m4st3r1

It's the main theme from the movie "The Deer Hunter".

[Recordbhoy]

@ronshay3488 Actually , it is NOT the theme from the Deerhunter .That was called Cavatina and was written in the 60s by Stanley Myers ( long before the deerhunter film ..it had nothing to do with it ) .This piece is called Recuerdos de la Alhambra ..and was written in the early 1900s by the Spanish guitar master Francisco Tarrega ..It has nothing to do with any film either ..( although Mike Oldfield did an electro version in the Killing Fields end titles ) ..Now you know ..DON'T GET IT WRONG

[jllobet]

@Recordbhoy Actually Recuerdos de la Alhambra was composed around 1889 after Tarrega's trip to Granada not in the early 1900s

[Recordbhoy]

@jllobet I stand corrected , but I was making a point that it had nothing to do with Hollywood

[key2kingdom]

@Recordbhoy There are 2 songs in this video.

The first is Cavatina from the Deer Hunter, comically botched by Les Dawson on the piano.

The second is Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tarrega, played at 2:00.

[wareidav]

Superb !

Just superb !

[Boylieboyle]

For anyone who's new to JW, Search under his name + "seville concert". It's out of this world ;)

[stevetadworkz]

This is quite funny :)

[zen234]

Ooops!

[spanishyoruba]

Thank you Francisco Tárrega for this masterpiece. Seems not even the person who posted this video mentions his name.

[TubeSpoker]

@spanishyoruba Tarrega is maestro. He´s the one that brought much much much too classical guitar.

[SqueezeMyLemonBabe]

@spanishyoruba

Well he doesn't need to, everybody knows Tarrega.

[loolzkoolzDj1990]

u freakıng kiddig me i can play guitar well but wtf

[Michajeru]

Thank God for John Williams - he really is the greatest.

[simmo303]

@Fonqie From Deerhunter

[ThiemelJiri]

skip to 2:00

[anasamati]

@ThiemelJiri you saved my life. I owe you one

[MegaPitoe]

amazing piece, amazing player

[Wavewolfaroha]

@Fonqie "Cavatina", by Stanley Myer

[mioieiingura]

I believe his right hand has 6 fingers or smth ... it cant be real that tremolo ! Amazing !

[dielaughing73]

@mioieiingura There's a little trick to this piece, which you will notice if you watch his right hand closely.. The tremolo is played on groups of three notes, interspersed with the bass notes which fall on every beat. So the fingering is P-A-M-I-P-A-M-I (or thumb, fourth, middle, index etc). It sounds like the tremolo is uninterrupted but the first note of every four is played on the bass and NOT the treble strings. So yes it's difficult, but not as hard as it sounds.

[cindelrosario]

wow :)

[guildednemesis]

;)

[MrsKsays]

The guitar is part of him.  Wonderful control.

[jacqueline1806]

Un tout grand monsieur de la guitare.

[donottawaguitar]

so full of life in your playing

[fieldfullofthistles]

les was good but by heavens John was heavenly. How did he keep that tremolo going so fast for so long? Superb.

[jamcow3]

this is a cure for ANY insomnia.

And trust me it isn't the HUGE smoked rib dinner I just had.

Marvelous (:

[rigo1962]

grande maestro, maravilloso

[henkhopmangitaar]

Fantastic. John Williams is the King of Guitar

[IceColdBlueSpike]

Man he's gotten old, and that was only 1990

[TheTmny876able]

The real master of an instrument and John williams!, only kidding of course.

[Wakipenda]

this is why he have opposable thumbs and a big brain!!! not only to grab coke cans out of a machine!

[igotsmoshedify]

No, we'll do it in here... :D

[EpicExdeath]

Muy buena la cancion, es hermosa

[mybullnoise]

Se puede hacer mejor

[zen234]

@mybullnoise

No it isn't !

[soyguitarra]

@mybullnoise jaja! como se podría hacer mejor?

[luizbrenner1]

skip to 2:00 to the music

[mofoshrimp]

Hmm way better right hand than most classical guitarists, pretty damn still.

[robertdolivera]

haha love les and john is just fucking pr0

[Kitsouneey]

Amazing, take me, John Williams

[vencedorgusano]

Esta noche la nostalgia tocó en las puertas de mi corazón... y yo, cual vigía distraído y otro tanto adormecido, he abierto. Cimbrando mi alma y estremeciéndome toda. Es noche de recuerdos del hoy, del ahora...del siempre. Este ir y venir (el adentro profundo y el interminable afuera) me está agotando un poco...pero sólo por hoy: Lo prometo!

XQ

[AaronNoldenMusic]

EFFIN AMAZING. I LOVE YOU GUY.

[arfurlife]

Wow! you have to hand it to him dont you. That is something else. So effortless and so controlled. I would die of shame if he ever heard my attempt. I wish I could know what it feels like to play it like Mr Williams. You d have to shoot me to stop me repeating it over and over if i was that good.Brilliant and bravo

[sarajcara]

Cavatina theme music from The Deer Hunter

[lucademixs]

what was that song in the begining called?



[dereksmallsuk]

sounds iffy to me. like its being played underwater.

[TheKomando007]

maestro

[diecilire]

ma quello è il Mario Merola inglese!!

[tigery94]

12 people can't listen.

[skippykiller]

@tigery94 maybe because they were searching the music of stars wars ;) my english is not the best! sorry!

the performance is amazing!

[zodiacbluesbaby]

Thumbs up for Les Dawson! (and for the great JW)

[key2kingdom]

It's the first time I've heard Williams make a mistake, ever. Les Dawson must have shaken him!

(at 5:07 he plays the low A twice instead of A E A, which he'd just played correctly)

Many Belated Birthday wishes to JW, the God of the Guitar, who was 60 this April.

[Pikangu]

@key2kingdom actually 70 :)) it's fine , everybody makes mistake :D

[key2kingdom]

@Pikangu haha! just testing ;o)

[Pikangu]

go to 2:02 so you skip the beginning .

[noelpne]

@Theagchm - Are you positive that its a different John Williams who plays Classical guitar in the Vietnam film ' The Deer Hunter ' ~ Cavatina ?

[mahajohn]

@noelpne This is THE one and only classical guitarist, John Williams, who indeed plays the "The Deer Hunter" piece; it's just not the John Williams who has composed the most iconic film scores of the last thirty years. Unless they're actually both stand-ins for the real John Williams, who is really Bob Dylan.

[kromekrush]

My favorite classical guitarist.

[LeeEisenstein]

What a superhuman talent. 

[baconbag]

Song starts @1:50

[invictorium]

I'm selling an Admira Elena, message me if interested. Based in West London

[rogerzilla]

This is so much more fluid than most other players.  Les's comedy piano is great too.

[misticknight]

This guy is not normal wtf.

[Carnifex11100]

sounds beautiful

[TheNegringa]

Lol, funny, very fanny, ha, ha,ha!

[dann3th3manni3]

This is hilarious!

[first2nd2002]

unbeliveble tune

[opustenzy]

youtube com /watch?v=k8v-LlAx148

[bobgreen623]

Total class

[MrMarkCastle]

pepe romero is the best recuerdos de la alhambra ive ever heard. check out the black and white one

[MrMarkCastle]

He is fine player but pepes tremelo and love shines through much brighter

[Zs0ltika94]

not bad, but Johannes Moller is better

[MrBlobloblob]

i want to grow my nails to be able to tremolo but i cant keep myself from biting em :(

[paradox95]

@MrBlobloblob you are bitting them because you are afraid of how well you will feel if you play tremolo :))

[yyy12232]

@MrBlobloblob There are some nail polishes out there that are pretty much transparent and taste NASTY which are meant to stop people from biting their nails. Otherwise you can try cayenne pepper or anything that would help you build up a negative association with biting your nails.

The challenge then comes if you have brittle nails... you'll really need a lot of nail care if you have that problem.

Good luck with the nails

[johnfrusciante46]

el mejor... menudo tremolo se marca el colega...

[ergastule]

@Theagchm It's a different John Williams who composed the movie tunes.

[woutergvl]

@ergastule yep, you have the John "Cavatina" Williams and the John "Cantina" Williams 

[Dalarae]

@ergastule Lol thanks i was wondering myself ><.

[Pikangu]

happy birthdayyyy

[bountyhanz]

10/10 best guitarist in this century:)



[Theagchm]

@bountyhanz EEEEE gad!!! This is a piece of classical guitar music written by the fantastic composer Francisco Tarrega. It was used by Jack and his production team for the excellent and for me inspiring 'out of town' series and yes it was a slightly different arrangement. And yes it is a fabulously beautiful piece of music, one I never tire of hearing.

[lukessummerguitar]

@Theagchm

Check out this video on Youtube..."Andres Segovia - Tremolo study played on the EMG"

I think this was the piece originally used for Jack Hargreaves "Out of Town" ( What an incredible T.V programme)

[MrWishiwas18again]

Haven't looked through all the comments, but this enduring piece is the theme song for the 70's show out of town with Jack Hargreaves. Slightly different arrangement, but hauntingly beautiful nonetheless. And of course the craft of John Williams is mesmerising.

[ashesguitarist]

Love it! Virtuosic music and laughter really do go hand in hand!

[sohamakamachete]

WHICH track do they play before John starts with Recuerdos ???

It sounds really beautiful !

[IgorAlyoshin]

@sohamakamachete, it's Cavatina

[Alpdora22]

@sohamakamachete Cavatina by stanley myers :))

[Yuriy21]

Williams for ever remains in the history of guitar art as the greatest musician!

[breaksglass]

this a master of the tremolo.............just amazing.

[peppy6078]

@breaksglass nah i think David Russel is the master of tremelo

[mahajohn]

@breaksglass There is no one - NO ONE!!! - with a better, smoother tremolo than John Williams in his prime.

[manuelmartinleesmann]

@breaksglass that´s right!!! 

[theSergiitox]

este maestro tiene un tremolo que inspira mucha perfección muy limpio el sonido ... realmente un placer disfrutar de estas piezas asi con la tecnica como la de John Williams :D

[puyolazo666]

Una interpretacion de lo más sentida que he escuchado. No es tan perfecta como la de Yepes (según mi opinión, la versión más perfecta que he escuchado), pero le da un toque más sutil, y el tremolo suena mejor. Eso sí, me encantaria escuchar esta pieza tocada por Paco de Lucia, seria interesante ver como hace el tremolo al estilo flamenco...

[libofsharaku]

really good

[ngocnhan91]

I want like it more than once

[its8ace]

Credit where credit's due, JW plays flawlessly (as far as the bits I've heard, indicate) and I agree with mih that, in my words, he's a bit, 'clinical', but then that's what the form is. Style and interpretation are big issues, so JW presents his own variant, nothing like a Paco De Lucia, for example; so enjoy it!

Regarding the beginning...enjoy that too...you'll never experience another LD.

[TheHumanUnion]

wow fantastic

[kag6889]

holy shitt

[Morkarbasi]

tarrega tarrega tarrega

[AgaHero]

is the tremolo done with nail or finger flesh?

[jkshoujk]

@AgaHero Judging from the sound, I'd say nail.

[Haizum74]

@AgaHero Its the nail

[Dreamside91]

@AgaHero You need nails to some degree. John Williams himself said you can never learn from another guitarists nails. You just have to experiment. My instructor told me the shorter the faster.

[MasterGoshinki]

holy christ!

[SuperMajuba]

No it's just a natural movement because of the dependence on the 3rd finger.

[JHJH007]

Is he using his pinky to play?

[Patriot3332]

@JHJH007 Classical guitarists rarely use their pinky on their right hand.. He is using his thumb for the bass notes, and his index, middle and ring fingers for the tremolo.

[13olivas]

@Patriot3332 Classical guitarist never use there pinkies.

[weirdunclebob]

@13olivas Source? And it's 'their', by the way.

[captainkirk5100]

the effect of multiple guitars is how we classical guitar players amaze people. the tremolo has a memorizing effect, and the the base line sounds like back up.

[Pikangu]

9 people have lost the memories of the alhambra

[SpudIllusionPictures]

2:00 to get to 'Memories Of The Alhambra'.

[NoobMuNcHeR123]

shit fanny

[321Dbale123]

Who composed this and what grade would you say someone would need to be to be able to play it well?

[TaylorDDAE]

@321Dbale123 Francisco Tarrega. I believe it is a grade 8 Piece.

[321Dbale123]

Who composed this?

[TeatroGrottesco]

@321Dbale123 Franciso Tarreaga

[classicalmannick101]

you can see that he is super pissed that they started clapping before he finished.... :D

[luizalvesongabf]

Projeto Violonistas Unidos em Prol da ONG ABF

São Paulo-nos envie seu video pelo youtube.

ENTRE NO SITE DA ONG ABF E FAÇA SEU CADASTRO.

NÃO É PERMITIDO PELO ORKUT COLAR URL AQUI.

ESCREVE ENTÃO: ONGABF E DEPOIS: .NET

[retremulo]

Grande maestro John Willians, belíssima apresentação.

[qolllop]

The applause just began before the end of the song. That's very usual. :D

[jllobet]

I love and hate this guy, he's my hero, but at the same time I hate him because I'll never play like that :-(

[Deddy1414]

@jllobet

you can, just keep practicing even this song is doable by most with enough practice

[ProSBurgoS]

What is the song played in 00:56 please?

[cigster]

@ProSBurgoS Cavatina

[dotuan1986]

@ProSBurgoS Cavatina from the movie The deer hunter :D

[great4702]

Hi ProSBurgoS. It is "Cavatina". There might be ~1000's of video you could find in Youtube if you'd like to listen to it... Enjoy!!!

[ProSBurgoS]

@great4702 Thank you friend. ;) I love that song

[MrBradipo73]

how did he get his finger trapped under the string? that's a nice trick!

[gaubaccuc75]

9 people deaf !!

[SantomPh]

@mchlor it's called point-counterpoint, and this piece has a lot of open strings so it becomes easier.

[MohamedTheWise]

now beat that if u can ?!!!!!

[TheReilly8]

no dont skip the begininng its pretty funny

[timoteo58]

wonderful



[newislandguitar]

nice! one of my favorite pieces to play..he plays it well.

[maurorock445]

20 years ago :)

[IgorGetmann]

Real Master!

[MegaAlba80]

ver tambien: mis amores al viento musical de puerta 27

es maravillosa su musica