John Williams interpreta Villa-Lobos

[Jude2Mahoney]

@soundtracker94 Erm.. Yeah it is?

[SintetizersGuitars]

this isn't study number one, i think o.o'

[kildahorde]

40 people obviously hate true musical genius

[guitarfan1979]

@kildahorde 40 people didnt like this 15 people are this and that a bit tired of this bullshit..look at the date the video was posted it comes from times when we had star rating here it means anything less than 5 stars is counted as a thumb down maybe some one gave it 4 because of crappy vid quality dont mean they "hate" it now get it over with...

[thomasseta]

@kildahorde or maybe it is tha audio lol

[usima1]

Great! Bravo!

[r05333]

villa lobos is my Master. His ouvre for guitar is the one. The best brazilian guitar creator. I mean, the best composer for guitar. a litle fresh man in Paris, but a not so fresh in the hard work. salut. I do not write in english, but i try. Vila lobos é meu mestre. É o compositor pra violão que mais admiro. Se não o admiro totalmente, admiro seu brilho ao violão. Admiro a intimidade que demonstra nos estudos e prelúdios, e choros. Que intimidade? com o violão e com quem o toca.

[Assanee2531]

I love his guitar

[haviskam]

Mr.Williams, you are the ultimate player of guitar.

[musicmaniak98]

im going to learn prelude nº4

[zacrichey]

This is amazing! But the audio quality made me laugh!

[tuzimBacilla]

ótimo vídeo.. só gostaria de fazer um comentário: me avise se eu estiver enganado, mas esse não é o estudo nº 1 e sim o prelúdio nº 1...

[capivarachess]

Sim, é o Prelúdio nº 1. Já toquei e é muuuito bom!

Legal.

CC

[sauron4524]

Lobos was very exuberant and drunk a lot!

[Zion012]

cold faced Guitar Genius

[93N39]

@Zion012 If I could play anything like that, I'd be grinning ecstatically from the pleasure of it.

[Piru0901]

John Williams e Heitor Vila-Lobos, dois gênios! Maravilhoso!

[minotipo16]

Villa-Lobos was the man !

[azphael]

this isn't not the 1st study

[gabrielabrego1]

Grande Maestro...

[intervalkid]

I love this piece. Very interesting composition. I have to say John Williams is good but Lily Afshar is much better. Anybody who has not heard her should check her out.

[focl2003]

For most guitarist John Williams is the perfect example of the closest from perfection, in my case I've always tried to find a better guitarist, some friends have told me about some other including the the most famous ones, after several years JW is still the best for me, almost perfection

[Bitenkas]

@focl2003 have you tried baden powell yet?

[focl2003]

I'm talking about classical guitar, that guitar where technique, sound and beauty are priority

[genesisguitar1]

布勞艾：安魂協奏曲 (提獻給福田進一) *亞洲首演

Leo Brouwer(1939- )：Concerto da Requiem, in Memoriam T.Takemitsu II (dedicated to Shin-ichi Fukuda,2005-6) *Asian Premiere /Taiwan

[KaiserSozeMan]

Villa-Lobos is a brazilian composer.

[joof68]

beautiful just beautiful,such skill and warmth

[josesapir]

corrige aí que esse não é o estudo 1, é o preludio 1

[TheDickwaud]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!! sorry i had to post this because ive just come back from a John Williams concert and he was amazing and really down to earth, you may be wondering why im so over excited but ive always wanted to see him since i was a kid :)

[richter111]

genial ! John williams best ever !

[abby161919]

whay dident segovia like spanish flamengo?

[branquitodemunze]

@abby161919 maybe he didnt understand it ;)

[abby161919]

but he pleyed when he was children

[hansley270]

wats the name of the piece?? it's not etude no1 as told in the description...

[Penguinti]

@hansley270 prelude no. 1

[metalheadjoel420]

His thumb is perfect for the guitar. No wonder. But he hit a off note on 1:29 did anyone catch that? haha only i would look for his mistakes. He's almost perfect and plays like a machine. My thumb is like half of his. haha. I'm trying to mimic his technique. I have long ways to go.

[couerl]

@metalheadjoel420 We all have a long ways to go.. The thing that sets Williams and Segovia, Bream and Parkening and Russell and guys like that apart is that any one of them could sit down and play a repertoire 12-20 hours straight from memory and maybe miss a few notes here and there, but have them go largely unnoticed..

[ebeltoftiblindo1978]

so wonderful<3

[njpoirier]

1:31 - he goofed. but who cares - his tone is excellent overall. i wish the recording itself was a better quality. I absolutely love this piece - have for a lonnng time.

[bruperina]

Brazil has the best songs ever, but the good songs are covered by the bad ones, but john williams is the best interpreter :D

[xSnoweyexp]

there is no such thing as the best music, thats all a matter of taste . There is great music from a lot of countrys

[dimebag108]

the best ever... up with john ^^

[thenaffo]

Pow corrige ai.. é Prelúdio 1 e não Estudo 1 !

Lindo prelídio! Eh nois eh Brasil ! srsr

[jitterbugdance]

I love the movement in his playing- each note/phrase comes alive

[agnniulises]

que linda canción!

[guitarsamueldebona]

Grande peça.. do Vila Lobos. interpretada por esta feraaaaaa

John Willian

Parabens Mestre

[musictranscription]

I like to transcribe this song

[joaobr1996]

É preludio 1, não estudo 1

[kitkeskas1992]

All the Preludios are very very beautiful

This is my favorite Prelude

I love Heitor Villa-Lobos! It is a very nice!

[Chuckbluesbreaker]

the first songs i heard from villa lobos that make me start listen to it was the preludios, great music!!!

[betoslipknot]

Video bom... Só não acho o John Williams um bom interprete pra musicas brasileiras... E a propósito, esse é o prelúdio 1 e não estudo.. :)

[jacketnipple]

ahh audio quality!

[mijabobija]

Ooooh! I can play this :D

[minhacontadoo]

esse som é mto mto bom.. a parte dos harmonicos é d+

[ruizpipo]

I understand the audio quality isn't the greatest, but one can still hear the shrill, ugly sound of the Smallman guitar. I find it curious how John Williams's great technique will distract listeners from hearing the lack of quality coming out of this guitar - the trebles are shrill and the basses are metallic. The melody, mostly played on the fourth and fifth strings, should sing like a cello. He would sound a million times better on his old Fleta or a Romanillos or Hauser or Friederich or...

[kostas1spg]

or a Ramirez....

[Deerse]

a premier taut ( Fisher ) , a spruce double top Contreras , the Bernabe Royal and a Gernot Wagner or ....

[SoullessOpeth]

Missing the crowd's reaction! That's very important part of a recital!

[rafaelfrancisp]

este é o preludio hehehehe

[qqwwerttyy]

fking great mofo

[Linque13]

11/10. Absolutely perfect.

[MilesB1975]

Fantastic playing, shame about the poxy recording.

Floor Noise anyone?..oh well its only YouTube after all.

[fellipebarnabe]

eu toquei essa musica em dezembro do ano passado no conservatorio deu uma trabalheira danada e minha imterpretecao passou longe da de john williams mas valeu o estudo!!

[mediguitar]

"Bravo Maestro"

[agvap]

but its preludio not estudio ...

[artillerypr]

Perfect! 10/10

[albertuss90]

10/10 just perfect

[ArthurAnderaos]

Esse é o Prelúdio Nº 1 (Homenagem ao Povo Brasileiro) e não o Estudo Nº 1 (dos Harmônicos)....

[Joshyi18]

guys hes also human he still makes mistakes. but you cant take take anything away from the peformance ! top noch john william

[stranger2666]

even virtuosus like him can make mistakes like that that's too bad

[xjoseignaciox]

The reason why everybody talks so much about the mistake, is because they care about the sport and not the music. I think it gives this cheesy piece a touch of necessary ambiguity: it's always either major or minor.

[CAMARGONE]

To refer to this piece as cheesy is rather unfair!

[rronda]

Cheesy is your grandmother

[xjoseignaciox]

I totally agree

[ninjaguy3]

the mistake is obvious, thats no interpretation. but i will FOREVER rate john williams, even over Segovia

[0TheBell0]

What mistake are you referring to?

I have to confess I can't see anything here that couldn't be interpretation..

[zagreus12]

though he was a great player, segovia was a douche bag. he single handedly ruined the careers of at least 2 brilliant spanish guitarists he saw as a threat, rather than trying to further their careers by performing the music he secretly enjoyed.

[pgricardo2009]

Acredito que este é o melhor dos cinco prelúdios que Villa-Lobos escreveu, acho que ele aproxima alegria e sofrimento em um encontro paradoxal, tipicamente barroco, mas com uma sonoridade além da romântica.

[jh9214]

Hurray. He made a mistake- the open G string strikes again. There's still hope for the rest of us! What a wonderful guitar player.

[loadermen]

Prelude no. 1

[KenAllday]

i love john williams, i think this the first time ive ever heard a mistake. thats saying something.

[eyesofmedusa86]

Guys everyone can make mistakes. This didn't make him less better. My favorite guitar player of all !

[gildohenrique]

That´s the PRELUDE N. 1.

The "Estudo nº 1" is other piece.

[Dadgader1]

Seriously guys, he is only human, and he did make a mistake at 1:29-1:30. ANYONE who is serious about Villa-Lobos (and classical guitar) can pick it out. It can't be an "interpretation", why would you play an E minor chord as a substitute for an E major chord (the tonic chord). It just doesn't make sense in this particular context.

[AthenasBitch]

aactually it would make sense. Composers like Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and even late Beethoven would have done this, especially in the middle of a piece. It is okay to borrow from the parallel minor in a major piece. regarding this particular piece is a modern composition, villa-lobos could or couldn't have put that in intentionally.

[lobodebosque]

It's great, really his sound is perfect, but at 1:30 I could see that he is also a human being... one of my favorite guitar player.

[andreacro]

a lot of time has passed since i played this song, but i think that he messed up something at 1:30

[underlecht]

remember - it's an interpetation.

[mrjabuta]

he did.

[anarchyinferno]

he doesnt make a mistake ... its an interpritation and if he did it was because he was sliding up and across the strings

[mrjabuta]

he did make a mistatake, that note is not in the sheet.

[jonboy700]

It appears to be a little clink - I want my money back! I'm going to listen to Garth Brooks!

[pedrohargreaves]

it's not "estudo nº1, it is " Preludio nº 1" ;)

john williams rocks!

[Artistwolf1993]

yeah, he rocks, and yeah, it's preludio :D

[rodriguezclassical]

Unbelievable tone. Check out my recordings sometime.

[DavidMJordan]

Definitely Prelude No1. Villa-Lobos is amazing in the way that he can make chords so familiar that you can almost name the emotion they signify.

[kumgangpoepsa]

To the poster: this isn't the Etude number 1 but the Prelude number 1. Please correct this if possible. Thanks for posting

[musictranscription]

I can write for you any sheet music

[RSRop0]

As absurd as it may sound.. you really can't compare Classical and Neoclassical (electric guitar playing classically inspired pieces) at all. There are entirely different skill sets required for either genre, and both of them serve different purposes - Neoclassical is, at heart, rock and roll, and its priority is entertainment. That - it does rather well.

[HEADBANGING69]

ohhh John wiliams make classical guitar sound soooo good. Great just great.

[Random1357912]

Very nice, as a guitar teacher, I love it! Nice bit of allegro playing in that , not exactly forte but that makes it nice. I love the texture, fantastic!

[aniveles]

juiliojaramillio

[cambrasmacho]

This is "Prelúdio Nº1" and not "Estudo Nº1".

[cambrasmacho]

This is "Prelúdio Nº1, not "Estudo Nº1".

Very good perform!

[poolarbear]

I feel like this is the perfect music to listen to while reading "A hundred years of Solitude"

[tarrega2]

Critical stupid...im sorry john

[inbetweenyou]

absolutely amazing!

[noir91101]

Bar none, these guys are the ultimate guitar players.. the classical and flamenco guitar players. I really look up to them

[lightsabre86]

I know, Malmsteen not a standard classical guitar player, but he created a new, neo classical style, where he rewrote the possibility of classical music on electric guitar, and this was a basic point in many guitar players style.

[Trib74]

Perhaps, but if you can't hear the difference in quality between this and something Malmsteen speeds through without feeling or, frankly, musicality, then you're really missing out on some music appreciation.

[lightsabre86]

Well, of course John Williams better in classical music than Malmsteen, I can hear this. Neo classical music is a new style, you can like it or not, but it's a fact that Malmsteen's songs build on classical songs. He takes feeling in his music, between his shredding. If you don't thing so, hear other shredding master, for example Michael Angelo.

[lightsabre86]

He really doesn't feel the music. I play the classic and electric guitar too, I see the beautiful sides both style, perhaps this makes me global approach.

[Trib74]

My comment was directly in response to your comparison of Malmsteen's 'classical' playing to Williams'. I know perfectly well that other 'shredders' can play with emotion, in the context of their style anyway.

[mindaflame7]

To quote pepe romero:"the electric guitar is like candy, it's very sweet for a few moments...BUT IT DOESN'T FILL YOU UP".I would add: A real musician needs real musical food.

[mindaflame7]

please make malmsteen comments where they belong:IN MALMSTEEN VIDEOS!trust me,this is way out of malmsteen's leage,don't get me wrong,i went through a'neoclassical'electric stage,but i realized that trying to imitate the classical violin with the extremely limiting tone capabilities of an electric guitar-not to mention the fact that you can not play actual chords with distortion on- is really NOT satisfying,so i decided to play REAL classical instruments instead.

[ROSIEC71]

I think each style has it's place.

I can see how this and other recordings of John Williams (who by the way is my favorite guitar plater) has far more depth and musicality than the neo clasical style.

But what I like to listen too depends on my mood and what I am doing. If I want to listen to this I have to stop what I am doing and listen. If I want something to enjoy while I work I need something like the fun style of the neo clasical.

[GinoTheSinner]

this is prelude no 1, not estudio

[Timboh56]

now that's classical guitar. not yngwie malmsteen.

[lightsabre86]

This song is beautiful, but look Yngwie how plays for example the flamenco diablo, and many other classical melodies!

[joewatson406]

i'm assuming that's a joke

[keyar87]

AAAhh!! 1:29 :)

[alissonamaral]

É Villa Lobos foi e ainda é um grande brasileiro, grande intepretação, parabéns John Williams.

[dougfreshinite]

Preludio numero uno

[cesarscreamo]

amazing

[caraculomoko]

joer y a dedo

[theoden707]

wow, there are like a few mistakes in this.... very uncharacteristic of Williams.

[micmic1431968]

There are no mistakes. It's just time distortion of the video that changes the pitch in a few places.

[salarniknafs]

wow

[mricardo30]

thats what im talking about!

[cephalic]

He kind of reminds me of an entire orchestra. Pretty damn amazing.

[MrBodom]

Listen to Prelude No.5. Simply amazing,the way that Villa-Lobos composed. He definitely did intend to let you hear an orchestra.

[eleirbag89]

cavolo, voi chitarristi vi odiate l'un l'altro più di noi violinisti...

[mustavklimt]

If JW is the King of music, Milica Ilic must be Queen (or maybe princess?) glad the both of them are around to play their music.

[luizcadu]

not "estudo 1", but "preludio 1"

[don14gerrard]

John Williams Excellent

[pablomauser]

IMPRESIONANTE John Williams!!

[bukysilvi]

¿Y el tempo?...¿Y esos ruidos en los traslados de su mano izquierda?...

[pablomauser]

¿Y ese comentario tan estúpido?

[lacucaroja]

principe de la guitarra

[turkeyno18]

estoy de acuerdo contigo hecchavez

[HecChavez]

este es el mejor guitarrista del mundo!!!!

[elliotlabbe]

is it the john williams who composed all those famous movie music?

[pesse123]

Nope, different guy.

[rang3erhero]

Really????? I din't know!!!!!

[GrandPatzer]

Totally different style you guys. I don't think McKee would even like this music.

[itstastybacon]

i dont know about that, alot of true musicians are respectfull of other musicians.

[bm4972]

I highly doubt McKee dislikes Villa-Lobos, one of the great guitar composers, or John Williams, who is the premier living classical guitarist.

[bm4972]

I highly doubt McKee dislikes Villa-Lobos, one of the great guitar composers, or John Williams, who is the premier living classical guitarist.

[Baraquiel62]

Nice greeting from Mexico!!

[bigpuppy87]

beautiful music!!John Williams is really great!

[Stuuuu]

Eh, I disagree, this is really good, and not really comperable to Andy Mckee. I have a lot of experience playing classical guitar as well as steel string acoustic folk/andy mckee-esque music (That makes no sense O.o) but you can't say either is harder...

[od98]

190lol, what the hell are you talking about? Andy is great, a guitar god. But his genre is totally different. Technically, classical playing is much mnore difficult. I guess you know nothing about guitar playing. or haven't played one...

[tiagoesquimo]

Luis,não é o estudo n. 1, é o PRELÚDIO n. 1.

[Lilalutzee]

just awesome!!!! I love Villa-Lobos,he was a genious

[190lol]

I gues you havent seen Andy Mckee! Type it, and feel it...

[PaRtYBoY8920]

not as good, technically.

he's real showy with his songwriting.

can't compare him to a glassical guitarist.

[GatoTotal]

This is not a man.... IT´S A WHOLE ORCHESTRA WITHIN SIX STRINGS ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[stolenidentity1]

phail

[3amadeus3]

that man is one of the best ever

[TialysAragos]

waaaahahhhhhhhsweet.

[lillyholland]

greattt

[obeyurnapster]

i think this guy can play the guitar

[Poterock]

you think..?

[runninghobos]

lol this song is mad easy

[frizzy18001]

MAYBE?? 50:50??..

[jimmyfireball]

nice. don't normally listen to classical guitar but thought this was really good.

[meganotown]

amazing. (:

[vw1971]

perfekt

[ImperialK2]

John Williams was a pupil of Segovia.

[frice007]

yes, i know it. all segovia's pupil have the same style of their maestro... simply excellent... like williams that i like very much more than other famous guitarist. but there are also guitarists less famous like calsolaro and matarrese that are very good. i wish you could ear them. bye ;-)) p.s.