Asturias (Leyenda) performed by Xue-fei Yang

This is a spanish guitar piece part of the "Suite Espanola", composed by Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909).

For many who don't know, this piece is originally composed for the piano, later transcribed to the guitar by the great guitar composer Francisco Tarrega.

Guitar tablature: http://www.classtab.org/iaasturz.txt

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• asturias
• leyenda
• isaac
• albeniz
• xuefei
• yang
• xue
• fei
• 杨雪霏
• francisco
• tarrega
• spanish
• classical
• guitarist
• acoustic
• guitar

[charlieff2]

Xuefei is secure enough to not mimic or copy others' styles. There is always room for interpreting a piece of music in different way.

[nitindev]

even vidovic's version is fast. John William's is the best and very clean....

[Raqy22]

Ole Xuefei, greatly played with sentiment, basic for this piece!

[MikeyIV]

Jesus Christ, great technique and I usually love her interpretations....but I am feeling a bit nervous listening to this!

[geminiERAU]

what a beast. i played this on marimba in high school and it could never compare to its potential on the guitar

[Pikangu]

this lady is freaking unreal . her achievement to the guitar make me feel suck

[warlockig]

she has the sweetest most pleasant tone of any of the recordings i've heard on youtube. this tempo is a bit too frantic for my taste though.

[Pikangu]

she skip like 30 seconds

[johnfrusciante46]

prefiero a John williams...

[liunandaboy]

asturias in 5 minute is very fast

[HongwareeChannel]

I have to say the tempo is too fast. John Williams plays the right one. I love the playing of this girl anyway...

[melomane49]

@JaisBane

You are right about the tempo. We only have to listen to such internationally recognized interpreters of Albeniz on piano, like the late Alicia de Laroccha, to understand that, whatever the merits of Andrés Segovia (and they are many), some of his interpretations did not respect the original music. This is not to say that Andrés Segovia is not a great musician, but everyone has "failings".