Julian Bream - Manuel de Falla - Homenaje (Le tombeau de Deb

[marcelomelloweb]

Great work! This video is featured in my History of Music playlist , of the Choir Conducting Secondary Technical School , at Ourinhos (SP, Brazil) . Reference: Roy Bennett, History of Music (Cambridge Assignments in Music). ---

Excelente trabalho! Este vídeo faz parte de minha lista de reprodução de vídeos da disciplina História da Música III, do curso de Regência da ETEC de Ourinhos (Centro Paula Souza. A lista está baseada no livro de Roy Bennett, Uma Breve História da Música.

[nikoud1960]

He is just great.

[ignasie]

3:41 la soireé dans grenade ;)

[raymondjamesrivera]

I hope a time never comes when beauty like this is not appreciated...

[LeeEisenstein]

Magnifico!  The best ever.

[rawrgDX]

It's like Bream has a direst link to my heart when he plays! XD What I wouldn't give to hear him live before he passes...

[lawnelson]

Although I miss some "portamentos" and "glissados" from former versions, this one has absolutely taken me to another dimension.

[andreanoce85]

The best!!!!! :-D

[metteholm75]

Gosh! The man is still in development!!! Impressive! I too have been listening to Bream for the last thirty years, - and something new keeps coming up!

[carnagegerman]

I dont think De Falla gets enough credit....

[wardogrs]

I don't know when this performance occurred, but I've enjoyed Mr. Bream's expressive playing for over forty years. He's one of the all time best.

[Davidoff73]

Sensationel!

[uneedtherapy42]

wow just like Debussy's music it is the little "silences" in pieces like this as much as the notes played that make this so great! god do I love Claude Debussy...

[MBledzephed]

If you guys like this video you may also really enjoy my interpretation! I really dig Breams! Come check mine out.

[sdluthier]

It's like he has all the time in the world to tell this story-just a marvelous sense of time, playing all of the rests. So completely imbued with passion, power, and beauty. Every note and phrase in its perfect place, coming from the wisdom cultivated through a life with the guitar. Unspeakably beautiful.

[AlexM1979]

@sdluthier

well said Peter!

Alex M

[LUCICAGNOLO]

commovente!!!

[Iaokanan29]

I'd recognize Bream's right hand even If I couldn't see the rest of his body.

[9mercurio9]

A great musician with a brilliant musical intuition and a wide range of expression in his musical instrument, one of the most musical guitarists in the twentieth-century and playing music from one of the most relevant composers of that century Manuel de Falla -I recomend to hear also the Falla´s concert for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin & cello (1926)-

[TheBetoral]

L'interpretazione per ECCELLENZA dell'homenage pour le tombeau de Debussy...che meraviglia, il grande maestro suona e i sentimenti viaggiano

[sir1920]

someone tell me why players like this are not coming out anymore. The greats nowdays dont compare to these old masters

[FrankGrigonis]

@sir1920 I agree...it's all, lookie how fast I can play Paganini...my right hand stays in one place and I don't use no rest strokes, but gee, ain't I faaaast?

[iwattguitar]

@FrankGrigonis My sentiments exacty! There is a complete lack of colour, vibrato and variety in right hand strokes in playing now! The one major exception I would make if Pavel Steidl. He is, in his own way, carrying on the Segovia and Bream tradition better than anyone. Also, if you're interested, please have a look at some of my videos on this site.

[Hektor88]

@iwattguitar I agree. I have been playing classical guitar for a relatively short time, but I have noticed that the more "modern" approach is to be almost entirely monochromatic. It's like the players are trying to sound like MIDI files. I dunno about anyone else, but i like the twangs, the squeeks, slightly out of tune chords, etc that characterize guitar music. I listen to the guitar to HEAR THE GUITAR!

[jibbidywopdo]

That is very important when one follows their heart, everything just falls into place...

[mirroz220]

It's so sad that people like Julian bream have to die.....Physically at least.

[smoothie66]

Has anyone ever noticed that his left hand 3rd finger looks weird? Kind of clubbed and flat? Has there ever been any discussion anywhere about it? It looks like he uses the pad instead of the tip.

[AlexM1979]

Bream plays it so smoothly and effortless that you could think it is improvised on spot, or at least his own composition. For me he is the greatest classical guitarist of the 20th Century.

[LooksAeterna]

@AlexM1979 I remain unconvinced: It's Manuel Barrueco.

[victorvei]

que bellas imagenes

[larryjohnny]

wow, finally a great work for 20th century guitar!

i hate atonality, why play that stuff or even listen to it, when you have masterpieces like this that can take you away!

[sleazebee]

ice bream

[classicalguitarrocks]

He's playing a Hauser with low E resonance. Modern Luthiers take note.

[ciaranrosney]

pure genius....effortless

[rgdbhd3333]

Great player and composition!

Thanks

[eshdan]

after hearing alirio diaz performance, hearing Julian Bream is heavenly releasing.

[BluegrassForte]

Excellent playing. 5*s

Lindsey

[13lachat]

Bream est le maître de l'interprétation et la couleur. Il ya tant de guitaristes, maintenant, qui pense juste la vitesse est tout et tout ce que vous avez à faire est de jouer les notes et faire un son de guitare comme un échantillonneur ordinateur.

[scienceofsoundmusic]

i really like his interpretation. much more than the segovia recording

[Crazycrisps]

it seems easy to play but it's certainly not... so many things happen at the same time.. amazing how he plays this

[rossimdaniela]

amazing. lo amo.

[savemyplaylist]

how does this bream do it?! How can a person put so much personality in their playing that you know right away it's them?!

[MrMegalalalala]

i can share our opinion

im self a guitar player but julian bream ownes the greatest express ever in his music

[Jitpring]

Great questions.

[yuvalll35]

@savemyplaylist so true

[Sysiphus9]

It doesn't get any better than this

Bream was a GOD

[Jitpring]

No, he was not a god - which makes his performances all the more impressive. Iow, to say he was a god means that he was simply doing what gods do.

[tomophirwedge]

its worth remembering what he says aboiut being able to paint pictures in the minds of the audience but then for that to happen the artist has to be able to 'create' not just play something well. He has to be able to go to the heart of the music. This is something that Bream is a master of.

[kirinog]

thanks bream for all of your guitar art

[guitarbites]

Julian Bream is the best living classical guitarist - direct descendant (and student) of Segovia!

[parakeethands]

Christopher Parkening.

[kowalsky111]

why living?

[thejugglenaut91]

wow... hehe i seriously am trying to think of something to say but that's all that comes out and that's all i can express after hearing him play this

[MBledzephed]

I have easily watched this video over 100 times, especially when I was learning this piece-you can never get tired of Bream.

[bigmuso123]

older now and even more graceful in his stride ,

[decemberflowerr]

i m sitting a grade 8 ABRSM exam in classical guitar tomorrow. i 'll be playing homenaje, capricho arabe by tarrega, and gavotte en rondeau bwv 996 by bach.

[alienmig23]

there is no such thing in bwv 996

[cesarguitarrista]

Grande este Maestro¡¡

[Mufasajazz]

esta interpretacion está fuera de lo normal! la mejor de esta pieza que yo haya escuchado, y el video demás de bien logrado, capta todo lo que el intérprete desea expresar. Que grande!

[bigsaxes]

Julian Bream is telling a story, and singing a song.

Breathe taking!!

[Jitpring]

Notice all the comments here about Bream's advanced age. Such is the chronological snobbery of the consumerist dictatorship of relativism's various myths of progress - all things must be "New and Improved!!!" or they're somehow lacking in value. Friends, reject this regime and its culture of death. In other words, reject the Brave New World.

[JuergenSchenk]

I agree 100% - and Bream has more music in his pinky than all these Vidovics and Tamayos and all the rest of them can imagine

[MBledzephed]

Take it easy man I studied with Tamayo, and I just saw ana in concert, it was fantastically musical!

-Bream is still the man tho

[decemberflowerr]

i recommend that you buy "BREAM PLAYS BACH" and reevaluate your view.

bye

[cubscout89]

Bream is definitely better than the 'Croatian Cub'. Many people comment on age(Bream-old?:-P), looks(Williams-'nerdy?':-P) On pure talent it's difficult to see a 'Bear Circus' even if the star CUB is as cute as the 'Croatian Cub';-) Nothing wrong with the truth:-) However; I don't mind taking in a Bear Circus every so often:-)

[60moo]

Jitpring - And I would go even one step further to say that we can learn an awful lot from the eminent dead.

[Jitpring]

Absolutely. And not just the eminent.

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

[Jitpring]

(cont.)

"Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father."

-G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, from the chapter "The Ethics of Elfland"

[60moo]

Comparing classical guitarists is like comparing wines. The young are fruity, bold but somewhat rough on the palate; as against the smooth, mature, well-cellared vintages, replete with flavours, delightful nuances, and subtle overtones that make them the world's finest. Just like the Julian Bream's of this world.

[Jitpring]

Excellent words, 60moo.

[jolieprelude]

@Jitpring omg i think i love you! Great comment! Bream has an amazing sound and sens of (ownership?) any compositions!

[Jitpring]

@jolieprelude I'm delighted that you agree with me. Truly, outside of technology, the correct question is never whether something is old or new, but whether it's good, true, and the like; in other words, to what extent it's rooted in eternity and thus timeless. Yes, I'm happy to see that more people are rejecting today's chronological snobbery and the myth of progress at its root.

By the way, friends, you might google for page of mine on amazon called:

Resist the Brave New World

[FrankGrigonis]

@Jitpring Excellent observation! My favorite Segovia recordings were his last ones, done well into his 80's....I'm just an amateur, but the new guys can't touch the old masters.....

[paolosilv]

@Jitpring Brilliant!

[decemberflowerr]

i am playing this for my grade 8 in classical guitar this year along with capricho arabe by tarrega and gavotte en rondaeu by bach.

love them all. bream ofc is a guitar legend. to me the best guitarist i 've heard along with the man we owe everything to, segovia.

[hexatonia]

This is a fantastic performance. Bream just gets this piece so right; the combination of spanish character and a more abstract feel. He makes this small piece sound enormous and there's not a note that lacks meaning.

[morioro]

Its from a documentary called julian Bream-A life in music (or something like that, cant find the DVD just now), should be available on DVD through Amazon. Its a really good DVD with lots of great music and Bream comes across as a lovely down to earth man.

[guitarcameron]

bravo!

[decemberflowerr]

bream = contemporary and improved "version" of the grand master Segovia xD heh..he's the best..pitty, he cant play guitar nowadays though..

[rodionjsb]

its Bream who knows how to interpretate complex things like Villa-Lobos and de Falla. Listen/ its like a man walking in desert

[60moo]

rodionjsb - "...it's like a man walking in the desert". That is an absolutely perfect description.

The lesson from Julian Bream here to all up and coming guitarists is that they must be able to tell stories and paint pictures in the minds of the audience.

Otherwise they'll just be known as a guitarist, not as an Artist.

[chingersfreind]

@60moo That is exactly what up and coming guitarist's need to learn........not just the notes but the expression and ability to convey the beauty of the music through mature and sensitive expression rather than a series of notes in time with no feeling! Like minds!!!

[morioro]

This is a piece thats bigger than its parts but the interpretation is vital, Bream makes this piece sound Epic, a great piece for amateurs to hone their peformance because they can concentrate on the musicality as tehnically its easy enough from the page.

[UematsuFF7]

the best version on youtube...

[gabitrova]

estamos orgullosos de ser guitarristas!

[esarintulo]

Cette interprétation matérialise une entité musicale d'une densité si exceptionnelle qu'elle en devient presque palpable.

[petersuki]

As usual it's the finest music from the finest player

[wastedonnumptyslikey]

I'm sorry, it's a 'NO' from Simon......

[Jitpring]

Bravo! Bream's deathly appearance here is a great bonus, considering the nature of this piece.

[captainfink]

Oh get on with it, bald man with wood and plastic in your hands !!

[captainfink]

I never thought I'd love a man called Julian......

[31041955]

there are no words that can describe how good this is!!!

[giaian1]

è unico...

[pianistmusic]

beyond doubt one of the greatest performances ever of a piece of music......the feelings and artistry are so profound I have never been moved so intensely by a giutar performance.Thank you for this clip.

[decemberflowerr]

<33333333

[captainfink]

Doesn't your stupid, money-making ass ever get tired of selling ponography....why don't you listen FOR ONCE..

[mturbevi]

always liked bream.glad he´s still around. will send a

case of wine from chile ,in quantity for birthday in sept.

[RogerTiger]

just perfect, with his age, the movement that his fingers had from his childhood, hi could still make what we're seeing. Only you master bream...

[deekdooken]

It is simply my guess, but no one posting here is in any position to critique a Julian Bream in his 70's.

[Rexicano]

If you pups are lucky you'll also make it to his age and few will play half as well as Bream. One of the real maestros of guitar. Great to see him with such a great guitar! (John Williams take note, you've been playing some crappy guitars the last few times I've heard you). Bream's 70s Guitar album was one of the finest records of Modern guitar music ever and his first rendition of the Walton Bagatelles was perfection and passion combined. A real guitar hero in a world of guitar minnows.

[galliraz]

What guitar is it mate ?

it really does sound amazing.

[Rexicano]

My friend says;

That is the Hauser I from the Augustine estate. A

very valuable guitar!

[sacsubeuq]

Bello y con gran emotividad

[SoloGuitaristNet]

This "is" one of the most technically demanding pieces. So many tone colors must be adhered. Notice all the variations Bream is doing. Students often leave much out in masterclass. Bream is certainly among the greatest. Check out Rey de la Torre, a ontemporary of Segovia and student of llobet, for which the piece is most associated. We carry the DVD of him playing this in 1957 "Segovia & His Contemporaries Vol. 10" Two CDs &DVD. Sorry, we are not allowed to post this video.

[danielmagli]

Magia pura, grazie

[matpetheny]

Segovia once said that this is the most difficult piece written for the guitar. Of course not technically. it's simply amazing and this is the greatest performance I've ever heard.

[sarahrose2345]

this peice is boring and crap

[kiwisdad1]

I'm sorry you know so little about music in general... perhaps you could take a class or get a book from the library and try to educate yourself. Then you could have an educated opinion. But hey... it's always great to hear someone have an opinion 'and' voice it with such eloquence.

[ulyssesjj]

How wonderfully articulate you are.

[chirpybee]

I don't think so. Maybe you are in the mood for something more lovely - in which case this might not suit your mood at the moment. Not bad playing for a man in his 70's either.

[invertedtwisted]

I'm trying to like it, but really, I just can't understand what is good about this piece. Yes, its emotional, but surely any piece can be made emotional?

I dunno. I guess I'm not cultured enough to be able to enjoy this. For now I agree with sarahrose.

[Jitpring]

"I guess I'm not cultured enough to be able to enjoy this."

Precisely. The Brave New World specializes in breeding philistines.

[teddylilley]

What a great pairing-Julian and a Hauser guitar. Sounds eerie and beautiful at the same time. This is a great piece of music also.

[miugleb]

Quelle émotion

Quelle précision

Très très très difficile de poser cette pièce ainsi.

Magical !

[daco54]

Only a true master ,can make the guitar sound like that,ie not guitar music its beyond that its pure music.

[onuryazgan]

beyond amazing

[thoyo]

his phrasing is beyond amazing, my #1 fav guitarist

[768111]

omfg... he's lost his hair and he's sooo old. but he's still great and his facial expressions are still the same.

[sssupercola]

un conto è la tecnica..un altro la musicalità ed il cuore..senza quest'ultime due non si è musicisti..bel video

[meminio]

He's so old. I think it must be difficult to him continuing playing guitar

[donnerssgs91]

Christ he looks old. He could be 100. of course he's actually 70. He a smoker? must be looking like that. Very well played for an old fella though.

[Jitpring]

This is from his DVD, My Life in Music.

[cienanosdesoledad]

The feeling and emotion he put into his playing is what makes him the best. It is what shows the difference between him and John Williams, between the Spanish guitar of Romanillos and the Australian guitar of Smallman.

[johngolden]

I was told that Bream is playing Rose Augustine's Hermann Hauser I guitar here.

[Hauser43]

Right on! (But It's a Hauser not a Romanillos).

[nmclay]

It is like watching the picture of Dorian Gray. Still a master.

[Bjoernandersen]

Wonderful music! I think that mr. Bream is playing with his heart as well as with his wonderful skilled hands.

When was this video made?

[Padrenoe]

I agree...I love Julian and this video shows his excellent musicianship. I was told this video is circa 2003.