Rare Guitar Video: Julian Bream Masterclass - Heitor Villa Lobos 5th Prelude

[rawrgDX]

This reminds me soooooooo much of my teacher! He is really animated in my lessons and pushes musicality a lot. I completely agree! XD

[weidside]

Can someone please tell me who's this guitar player with Julian Bream??? Thank you...

[masterkuprij]

Maestro!

[rjlchristie]

Bream plays the third section in 3/2 but Villa Lobos wrote it in 6/4 (except for hemiolas implied in bars 7 and 8).

I also don't like the way Bream accents the lone 3rd and 6th beats in the opening.

[NapkinQueen]

@rjlchristie Shut up, nerd, nobody cares what you think

[daffydoug]

I'd much rather have smiling Bream as my instructor than Segovia SCOWLING at me! And believe me with my current playing, he would definitely be scowling! (LOL)

[mawsterin]

CUando te este hablando un maestro deja afinar la puta guitarra y presta atencion cojones!

[oknarbtal]

a little bit unbeautiful. haha british politeness

[Dave9309]

you know the reason why this video is rare? nobody wanted to watch it!

[newislandguitar]

A nice piece, I'll learn it from this clip and others..thanks for posting.

[MariposaGoldenboy1]

I Love Julian Bream!

[wee1man111]

Well its not rare anymore :) , People who post this stuff should think about thier titles, but nice all the same .

[miashred]

simply... a gentleman.

inimitable.

Thanks to you Julian.

[thetiler]

Fabulous !

[Aurelius27x]

What I would give to have this man as my instructer.

[thepoozer]

It's hard to say what some composer hundreds of years' ago was trying to convey and how they'd play the piece. Obviously there's no right or wrong way to play a piece but who can argue with Bream? Pure passion

[Rexicano]

A good detective can find the way.

Besides;

Vila Lobos was alive until 1989...just 19 yrs. before Hendrix died. Easy to consult people who knew him or even some recordings of him.

ps

nice version of Little Wing you play there at your site.

[aghily]

Any videos of Villa Lobos playing? or DVD? Thanks.

[Rexicano]

Used to be one on YouTube of Prelude One

but it was a rough version...almost improv version.

But I like both Bream and Parkening playing V-L.

BTW;

Prelude One score I have has many errors.

Took a while to work out from listening to records and videos...and even then people play it different ways in small details. Prelude 1 is my favorite.

SHIT! I just saw my typos;

V-L died in 1959! 10 yrs before Jimi.

I'm in poor light with a messed up keyboard. Sorry.

[guitargod6997]

Julian Bream - a master at all aspects of the guitar. As a teacher, at least in this video, he communicates his insights with kindness, humor, and consumate skill. His passion for the music rings through every note.

[pistachioguy]

@guitargod6997 - Hear, hear!

Leave alone the fact that he ranks with the creme de la creme of classical guitarists (when not running circles around them), Bream is also a master at jazz improvisation, lute, steel string guitar, Baroque and Renaissance music, English lute music, and ethnic & international musical idioms - not to mention his skills at piano and cello. His appetite for music is quite simply insatiable.

Truly a musician's musician - long live Bream!

[guitarman6661000]

I last heard Maestro Bream 2 years ago, and while had cut down somewhat on pyrotechnics, he was still one of the most persuasive interpreters around

[larsinla]

hahaha 1:38!!! both are smiling about that!!! studio lights are hot indeed1

[MiesterN]

lol ya, its segovia who died, not bream

[NapkinQueen]

He is still alive you know

[qsolkew01]

Alas Maestro Julian's guitar interpretation will be missed...very sad .

[ClassicalJoeNo1]

Thanks for sharing! *****

[greekyboy123]

Even in this short extract Bream leaves us with much food for thought. I do wonder though, what he would make of his mate John Williams' rather brutal version of this prelude which appears on YT.

[seattlevkk]

Thank you for posting this!

[guitarmanchester]

Julian Bream is wonderful in this !

[Batboxgriffin]

See this student, Forbes Henderson, 40 years on. Search for 'Le Renouard'

Well done Forbes! Davido

[60moo]

Batboxgriffin is right. Search for 'Le Renouard' and hear Henderson's exquisitely expressive performance of Granados' La Maja de Goya. He must have come away from this masterclass having learnt a helluva lot.

[kevin1q]

muy bueno gracias

[Valdinijo]

I think that many guitarists plays this prelude too straight, with almost no rubato. It's a sweet sweet melody, and I think that Bream is absolutely right about the rubato. It needs to be more free, and sweet, almost as if you were telling a sweet little story.

But very nice playing anyway. ^^

[brtherjohn]

Actually, I thought the student did quite well. Interestingly, masterclasses today concentrate largely on mechanical issues where as Bream promotes color, spontaneity and just overall music making. "Have fun with it", he says.

[RandomMocker]

Try finding a video of a Pavel Steidl masterclass. He's the best I've ever seen and participated in.

[brtherjohn]

Does Pavel play 19th century guitar? Or am I thinking of someone else?

[gextvedde]

Being taught by Bream. Man what a terrifying privilege!

[Guitarwizard]

love you Mr. Bream!! You are the best!

[mars7272]

Very novel video of Bream..Never seen any masterclasses of him on here. Terrific!

[gallesmusic]

That's Forbes Henderson being put through his paces by Bream.

You can learn a lot from this brief masterclass - it's all in the phrasing, Bream's legato is second to one.

[rlrjb]

it's awesome to have a view of Bream's work in a master class. He is just as talented a teacher as he is a performer. Thanks for sharing this.

[classicalguitartv]

lovely - many thanks for posting this

[letargic4]

Gracias, muy buen video