Li Jie - Vals Venezolano No 1 (Lauro)

[ytalodaniel]

MUY MUY BUENA! pero tienen razon, esos rubatos le hacen perder la esencia del vals venezolano

[steve80991]

Her soul cries out to us accross the barriers of culture, language, distance and time. All you need to do is listen.

[dlevita]

i wish she would play in the usa one of the greatest maestros on the planet

[MrArdelco1970]

Venezuela is a waltz so maybe should read a little more swift "joropo" I think it uses a very romantic rubato more classic style of Tarrega's compositions, but this version is very nice

[fieldfullofthistles]

This is so musical - very well done. Thanks for posting - I now know another marvellous piece of music I wouldnt otherwise have heard.

[Michajeru]

I love her playing very very much. Her music is heavenly, divine, inspired.

[nikakisapes]

perfect



[jeison1082]

hola tocas muy lindo creo q me enamorado de ti por esa causa me mataste...

[Jorge426Malmborg]

La tecnica es impecable pero matas la pieza si no le das el tiempo de vals: 1-2-3__1-2-3__1-2-3__1-2-3 y esto te lo digo porque tu estas entre las mejores guitarristas.

[MrArdelco1970]

@Jorge426Malmborg Se refiere más hacia donde lleva el acento en el primer , segundo o tercer tiempo?

[taijili]

really nice!!!

[hereforthemusic93]

I forgot how to play this and I lost my piece....

[aaaaranguren]

Nice perfomance. Gus Venezuela

[arm86ful]

WOW QUE ORGULLO QUE ESTA PIEZA DE VALS VENEZOLANO SEA INTERPRETADA ALREDEDOR DEL MUNDO!!!VIVA VENEZUELA!!

[MrDonkeyoaty]

Lovely performance, nicely paced, letting notes ring. Nice presentation.

[alejandroskanseco]

excelente expresion , la mejor version que escuche

[LinnyRin]

Li Jiang is officially one of my favorite guitarists. She's master class all the way!

[f22turboaccord]

i absolutely love Li Jie!!!

[concussedcarneous]

when was this filmed?

[huqiao]

@concussedcarneous in 1995 when she was 14 years old.

[ha1801]

she is a master!

[karch139]

Shows you what can be done when a child isn't spending all day playing video games!

[BABAOR10]

@karch139 ok

[jmriwok]

@karch139 The best coment ever !!!!

[caraphyllis]

Q. How could this performance be improved?

A. It can't. It's perfect.

[watercolour]

great interpretation....

so different from Pepe Romero's version.

[hackleberry7]

Music lady both beautiful!!

[altazboy]

What an incredible guitarist - duo hao!

[topmusiccritic]

She is the best of the best. TMC

[peterwdeng]

Beautiful, isn't it?

[MrBlueOnyx]

She is awesome!

[2131Elias]

Beautiful vals and a notorious performance at the guitar. This Li Jie is outstanding! Thanks a lot for sharing this kind of beauties of the life. Elías

[morocotopozz]

Beautiful!

Gree from Venezuela!

[Neumoenrico]

Hermozo Hermozo!

un 100

[cocolocodelatierra]

Li jie te amooo!! eres la mejor demasiado lindoooo!!!

[laurion69]

Bravissima, Li Jie!

Congratulazioni dall'Italia.

[wlwak]

I've removed my comments because I decided not to dignify racist stereotyping with a response.

[chingvang559]

you were the one who had your comments removed. Do you still think I'm wrong?

[wlwak]

I removed them myself. Dopey.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@wlwak: You do not sound like a tough grizzled old soldier but some kind of dandified nancy boy, who is afraid of wars and you are indubitably no sea-dog but the sort of pasty landlubber I have always despised. I'll warrant the most exciting thing that has happened to you limpid prawn in a whole year, was the day when you forgot to put sugar in your porridge!

[chupitomalandrito]

me gustaaaa

[sifakis123]

Great!your playing reminds me the playing of guitar masters of the past.5stars

[t0m4t3]

YEAH!! THAT'S THE SPIRIT!!!

[robertoruizbaez08]

Beautiful !!! You add your own personality and charm !!

[AntonioStradivarius]

Que hermosura, me siento muy orgulloso de esa pieza porque fue compuesta por un Venezolano y es considera una obra muy romantica y hermosa. Es relajante. Que bien toda la guitarra :-O

[nancymmv]

si es verdad!!!!!

[789vbc]

DANCE can be romantic too.

[jccalderonp]

Well done... greetings from Perú

[Boldstrummer]

Too bad she destroys the rhythm of this with an entirely inappropriate overly romantic interpretation. This is a DANCE.

She is very talented all the same.

with maturity will come better interpretation. I hope.

[nicomors]

I have only said that I don't like very much this song and this guitarist...

it's just my opinion!

I like a lot of classical music!

[piquedard]

hi nicomors, fair enough! i respect your opinion but li jie is one of the best classical guitarists of this century..can't help wondering who "your" guitarist is...

[ZarathustrasCrown]

Disliking the song is one thing, that's totally subjective...one person can hate a song and another love it and both be right. Hell, one could even dislike the person playing it...but to imply she's anything but a flat out incredible guitarist would simply be a bad call...her guitar version of Paganini's Caprice 24 and Koyunbaba are quite simply THE definitive versions of the song on guitar (I like her Koyunbaba as much as Carlo's)...this 14 year old child makes 99% of guitarists look shameful.

[LePhilippeTurcotte]

sorry..but she's 28..

[LePhilippeTurcotte]

but in this video she's 17 so she's good..maybe fucking good

[onguy3n]

I think she's 14 or younger than 17.

[ZarathustrasCrown]

Yeah, now anyway :) she would've been born the same year I was...I'm not sure when these video's were made exactly so it'd be hard to pin down exactly how old she was, someone mentioned 14 at one point (looked about right but it could be wrong), hell, even at 17 with about 5 years under my belt I wasn't even a fraction as good as this girl is.

[chingvang559]

Western wasn't built by Asians?

Who built the rail roads then?

[jude4312]

hahaha

[nicomors]

however metallica or iron maiden or black sabbath are certainly more difficult than this song

[joseaglz]

im sorry but u cant compare classial music with rock cus they have very very difent kinds of difficults

[TheVergile]

well....i started playing with the e-guitar and started playing classical guitar after a few years, because i wanted to study music.

Metallica, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath are no comparison, when it comes to difficulty.

Maybe not exactly this song, but classical music is often very hard...if you want a comparison in rock/metal-Music, take dream theater or symphony x.

[nicomors]

i know classical music is often harder than metal,bue this video certainly not!

[TheVergile]

agreed ^^

[Fichtezxc]

I plays blues, metal and classical.I can promise you, blues and metal, even shredding which I'm not wild of, is easier than this. At least when you are shredding you only really have to worry about your fretting hand. Finger picking like that is a bitch.

[DaveDenver]

you must not be very good at shredding, as all shredders know they need to be more aware of their picking hand. and some shred pieces are harder than some classical pieces so i wouldn't say one style is harder than the other.

[geoffreyefloyd]

That's true only if you try to alternate pick each note, you could use a mostly legato technique like allan holdsworth ;)

[DaveDenver]

well shredding is alternate picking each note, and allan holdsworth is not a shredder (although he is great)

[geoffreyefloyd]

never said he was! ;)

[DaveDenver]

hmmm... good point lol. take care

[JeffNicho303]

metal is too easy...

[nicomors]

metal is too easy??

look at brian may,santana,randy rhoads or slash...after tell me!

[Orochimaru666999]

Thats not metal noob

Look at John Petrucci, Muhammed Suiçmez, Marty Friedman or Jason Becker

[nicomors]

i know better than you what is metal

the men I wrote were just guitarist who play guitar better than the chinese or japanese in the video

[Orochimaru666999]

Well I dunno, but I really doubt that Slash can play better than her

[iamJROD]

The Classical and Flamenco Guitar are top of the line, as far as guitar playing is concerned. The guitar is a Spanish instrument,and they wrote the book on it. It really doesnt make sense to compare Metal Guitarist like Slash to Classical,and Flamenco Guitarist.

[nicomors]

so...why people doesn't know this girl (or boy...i haven't understood yet) and everyone know slash?

[iamJROD]

It all has to do with whats popular and whats not.

[ivorytowermetal]

why so many people doesn't know slash, ritchie blackmore, iommi, randy rhoads, and everyone knows britney spears, madonna, etc?...

come on, say it: "because people don't like..."

what? what don't like the people?..

You CAN'T compare Flamenco and Classical guitarist with metal guitarist. Both are great, and are full of different amazing rich stuff, but as someone said, the classical and flamenco guitar are top of the line. And fuck up how known are. It's real good music.

[willy1986tralara]

haha yes!

but man, flamenco and classical are just too far appart, they are very different too.

greetings form spain!

[JeffNicho303]

totally agree

[nicomors]

ahah

you're so funny!

I don't believe that a person can say this blasphemy!

[JeffNicho303]

becker rocks...and u (nicomors) know why? just because he played classic all his damn life...so just think a little bit the differences of level in both kinds of music.

[CarcharodonMusic]

simply amazing

[nicomors]

is a him or a her?

not bad but I prefer metal!

[acorntechnique]

a very very brief scan of this page would have answered your question, in case its not actually completely obvious.

if you prefer metal, then go listen to it!

[Pegasus444]

hahaha. hilarious.......

[Dennon21]

i to fucking love metal! but just think how amazing if she turned to metal? she would fucking shred!!!!!!!!!!

[pockypocky100]

Li Jie you are an angel of the guitars.

I am very happy in your music.

[godlikemammal]

Very nice Li Jie. Thank you.

[osvaldoraul]

¡ Gran interpretación ! Gracias Li Jie.

[davidclassg1]

this girl is truly gifted, y play some lauro well but she is so close to perfection....

[GM300GM]

que pedo con su cabeza al final jaja

[piyanist44]

why not avalible:S

[julioyselandia]

Coño impresionante.................­....

[beyacone]

como les gustaria tocar la mitad de lo que toca ella....

[bronsson]

este ya es amistoso:

vi que te gusta la música académica (a juzgar por lo que decís en tu perfil y por algunos de tus videos). buscate videos de xavier inchausti (es un pibe de 17 o 18 años q lo descoce al violin) te va a gustar. escucha que hay un par de caprichos de paganini que están geniales. saludos

[bronsson]

PD: para que entiendas mi primer mensaje, buscate las versiones de 3 de los valses hechos por juanjo domínguez. vas a notar una gran diferencia y te aseguro que no es por la técnica en lo que destaca en esos temas. Si no lo conocés podés buscarlo en Wikipedia a juanjo también, pero tratá de cambiar un poco las palabras antes después de pegar el texto tal cual estaba...

[bronsson]

"(aunque creo que lauro no era venezolano, es cuestion de buscar en google)"

o en en Wikipedia, como hiciste vos, PabellonOriental. Simplemente no era mi mensaje cuestionar la nacionalidad de Lauro, porque no era relevante el dato. Lo conozco bastante mejor que vos. toco guitarra desde los 9 años y tengo 22. La primera vez que lo interpreté fue a los 14.Como si fuera poco ridículo lo que decís, en wikipedia dice "Natalia (su obra más famosa)" apuesto a q en tu vida lo escuchaste...

[LuisManu3l]

Hola Mi Nombre es Luis Manuel y Antonio Lauro si es un Compositor Venezolano, lo sé porque soy de Venezuela, un Gran Compositor con dos conciertos para guitarra y orquesta y sus famosos 15 valses venezolanos entre los que destacan Natalia,María Luisa,Andreína,Yacambú.Carora.­Tatiana.El Marabino,entre otros.

Se comenta que el compositor y guitarrista australiano John Williams le llamó "El Maestro" y "el Strauss de la guitarra"

[bordoneandosur]

Muy buena interpretación.Yo la hago un poco mas rápida,pero esta me gusto mucho.Lo que hace con Paganini es de otro planeta.FELICITACIONES.

[joandino]

i wonder if you can come up with your own music and become a mortal guitar player!!!!

[poursafar]

you play excellent *****

[abipordha]

magnificent!

[akto666]

she is awesome, great playing, five stars for all songs from her

[bumtony1978]

i love her

[bronsson]

tiene toda la tecnica el pendejo, pero a mi con la mitad de la tecnica (por no decir un cuarto...) me salia mejor. el tema es que no voy a esperar que un chino interprete bien una canción del folklore venezolano (aunque creo que lauro no era venezolano, es cuestion de buscar en google). Es como que un peruano convenza a un chino tocando canciones populares chinas meridionales... se pasa el enano igual. escuchen la danza caracteristica de brower!

[soyguitarra]

coincido que debe ser un poco màs àgil con pausa si claro le dà el sentimiento,pero no tan lento,es mi sentir en esta mùsica bellìsima

[DreamZeppelin]

Me parece que es una excelente guitarrista, y su interpretación es de gran belleza. Sin embargo esta pieza tiene un tiempo más rápido, la interpretación original debe ser mas alegre.

[Windlefly]

awesome

[d33jay43]

putang ina halimaw sa gitara amf

[elduendevicente84]

Sorry this is not a vals ..it's nothing.

[jiich007]

solo es mi punto de vista :)

[miguelosevic]

y tienes razon le falta algo

[beyacone]

Hablen de musica y no si coloca caras o no!!!! no sean tarados ella musicalemente es perfecta. Tomen la partitura y siganla.

[jiich007]

nose toca por tocar..

[mizrrainsoto]

exelente pero hay que documentarse un poco de como interpretar una pieza hay que ver y escuchar a alirio diaz y a segovia en sus ejecuciones y consejos

[jiich007]

musicalmente hablando tiene buena ejecución

pero en mi opinion carece

de algo llamado sentimiento que es aquello que le da a la musica ese feeling personal..

[racoonhz]

que? porque no hace caras raras mientras toca?.. si solamente fuera el sonido, no se ven las caras que hace solamente, tiene buena ejecución y punto :)

[heislersin]

Demuestras algo de desconocimiento de la musica con lo que escribes.

la musica es Arte que emplea el sonido y el silencio de manera organizada para producir un efecto estético o anímico

Si: Emoción sentimiento

si no se transmite no se hace nada con una perfecta ejecucion.

[jicattarrossi]

esta mujer es una exelente ejecutante pero como le pasa a la mayoria de los musicos extrangeros que intentan interpretar la musica venezolana nunca logran darle la correcta exprecion

[Hernan38833883]

Si tu te expresaras bien en español pondrías expresión, en vez de exprecion, nota la s y el acento. Como le pasa a la mayoría de la gente, no logran ni expresarse en su propio idioma, y a mi tampoco me gustó esta interpretación, como que está lento.

[miguelosevic]

jicattarrossi EXPRESIÒN se escribe con "S"

[brotou]

if you scoot around the internet you can find a little info on her. apparently, she began playing at 11 and all these videos are of her around age 14. that's what i know. pretty amazing.

[brotou]

she's about 13 or 14 here. at this time she had only been playing about 4 yrs. she's about 27 or 28 now.

[albatross111]

do you have any evidence to back up her age at this time, I can't believe she would be only 14, and only been playing for 4 years!!

[sydneyshanghaiman]

So, great, and the future.

[disbri]

esta niña en mi opinion planta cara a los grandes guitarristas de nuestra epoca occidentales, observad el capricho 24 de paganini, habeis visto una tecnica y sensibilidad iguales????

[unusualmusician]

This musician's subtlety brings tears to my eyes. I am literally turning weepy-eyed. So beautiful and emotive. She sees (hears) the BIG picture. Truly rare.

[Hernan38833883]

si no tienes suficiente con koyunbaba, caprice 24, gran jota o rondo haz de estar sordo.

[trisix99]

gaadamn that is fucking nasty.... i'm currently learning natalia, i will have this one third on the list of antonio lauro =)

[benzuckerman]

Very talented! Lovely technique!

[jrgtve]

A mi parecer la ejecución es perfecta, pero le falta mas ritmo venezolano, ser mas continuo en la pieza y no detenerse. Esta pieza es alegre, es con entusiasmo. Es solo mi apreciación, soy venezolano y soy de guayana donde nació antonio lauro.

[tinian33]

I agree.

[echever7]

No estoy de acuerdo. esta pieza me suena mejor así con esas pausas que le dan mucha más sensibilidad. Los mejores intérpretes de Lauro, Alirio Díaz, John Williams, no lo interpretan a toda velocidad como sugieren algunos guitarristas promedio. Esta versión es, para mi, una de las mejores.

[verdi17]

Si tienes toda la razon pero hay que reconocer que no es mala guitarrista......por cierto es mujer supongo..........

[calin84]

jajaja que manchado claro que si en ese entonces tenia 14 años...bastante bien para una niña de 14.

[calin84]

jajaja que manchado claro que si en ese entonces tenia 14 años...bastante bien para una niña de 14.

[denuevopedro]

tienes toda la razon, esta excelente en cuato a tecnica, pero la toca muy al estilo romantico.

[FMFelipe]

Muy buena interpretación, me llama la atención cómo trasciende la música de Antonio Lauro, llegando a ser conocida incluso en Asia.

Saludos.

[pidgey]

she's not 13 or 14 she's 21 on those videos

[kidnet8342]

Actually she was only 14 in these videos,google it.

[ihcho]

She was born in 1981. Assuming the video was made in late 90's, she was about 17~18 years in the video.

[Reymo0on]

jajaja ke chingon el niño esta horrible pero toca cmo un antonio lauro xD

[jogonzalg]

excelente - excelent - excellente

[31041955]

You need a cedar top guitar , the overall sound will be more dynamique and round.

[vinnymatrix]

Go and F..yaseft before making any stupid comments. She is the best of the best ..if you guy find any girl who can suppass her. post here. I myseft call John william give you head bending .... My band : Guitar Trek and my teacher is Timothy Kain, duet partner with John Williams...

[footballdemocracy]

how about charo and that russian virtuoso who can play both 6 and 7 string flawlessly.

[PogoStickFrenzy]

currently have this assigned to me along with a bunch of other junk at college....this isn't how i'd perform it myself (mostly tempo and timbre stuff), but then again i suck and she doesn't and it sounds good....good vid!

[BruceMenigh]

The only thing we should ask ourselves is: can we play like that? If not, maybe it's better if we all just shut the fuck up.

[superlamanita]

ha ha ha excellent coment jajaja gracias

[MishuTaste]

I agree.

[Guitarwizard]

So i cannot say i didnt like a movie unless

i am a movie director? What kind of screwed up logic is that? Her playing leaves me cold. And there's nothing you or she can do about that. So shut the fuck up :-) LOL

[BruceMenigh]

Say whatever you want - the point is, it makes no difference, it's just noise nobody cares about. It doesn't help YOU to be better.

The thing to do is to just shut up and become a movie director. THEN your show will be interesting.

Who cares what we think about her playing. She is still the one capable of doing it, while most of us can only make boring grunts about it. I don't give a damn whether her playing leaves you with a hard-on or not. It's not important at all - except to you.

[Guitarwizard]

You seem like a good guy Bruce. Sorry if

i offended you. All in all, you are right.

Just glad we have so much beautiful music

to listen to.

[balamanti2]

Comments are all not about playing it about being Asian and deffending Asians, because usually they feel they need it

[eccemarco]

hehehheheehhee. Indeed, you are right! And I started playing guitar when I was 15, and she is 13 or 14 in these videos, and look at that! She is even better than a lot of professionals!

[bodomaniac666]

Son, shes like 20 something.... and she is professional, she tours with a 3 other girls in a guitar quartet. look them up i forgot their name. but they're all asian, chinese i think.

[naturanaturans]

Where she's from? how old? I judge whether one know how to telling story or singing music and she know how? will soon be virtuso. CAN FEEL SOMETHING. Need to be as famous as Japanese Kori.. I'm Korean Sud^^

[panagogt]

China 14 years She is 25 now and already virtuoso

[eur0tec]

Rather than consuming and posting anything from self-pleasing to ignorant comments WE all should pray (if you have prayers) for her, that she may not be a victim and always was and/or will be given a choice to enjoy what she is doing. It certainly is sublimely above any criticism.

[eur0tec]

I think that guy still believes angels can only have curly blond hair and play harp. He/She seems to know a lot and many Chinese people. So unlike other Youtubers ...

[balamanti2]

since you said that she suddenly seems ugly and her playing too

[Oetomoepi]

Woke up on the wrong side of the bed????

[balamanti2]

I like this chinese girl she is really special. she is fine artist and musician and human being unlike other chinese

[Oetomoepi]

"unlike other chinese" ??????? Duh??????

[cheruguito]

What an idiot.

[doubraska]

I'm Venezuelan and I never thought i would find something like this on youtube.... so lovely.... =')

[alexdealmeida]

she's cute

[bgttube01]

Oh, My!!! I can't stop watching her videos. She is beyond wonderful.

[fgarbo]

Iam venezuelan , she is playing great

[hailnerohail]

did she record all these videos in the same session? thats an enormous amount of music to have to know by heart played one after the other,,,