This piece is about how the man goes crazy... О том как человек сходит с ума. Более точного определения я не встречал. Исполнение - на твердую пятерку. Браво!!!

Ogni volta che sento e vedo questo video, rimango stupefatto. Grazie Asya Selyutina. Grazie Maestro Koshkin

Dear Asya, thank You very much!

Браво!

un chef d’œuvre!!!! on frisonne....c'est la méphisto valse de la guitare jouée avec la virtuosité diabolique qui convient....par cette grande dame de la guitare

This is PRICELESS! The best rendition of "Usher-Waltz" I've seen and heard so far. Keep sharing your beautiful music. Breathtaking, really.

This is absolutely brilliant! The sound she gets from her guitar is perfect!

i love youtube. makes the world a much smaller place and gives you access to things you otherwise would have not seen. great playing and stylish video.

Gurochkin, your work is exquisite and of the highest quality, only matched by the performance of the artiste you choose to show us. Please don't stop and may you have lots of success. You deserve it! Thank you very much and a large applause to the artist.

Exécution prodigieuse , musique inquiétante, quelle tension émotionnelle, l' interprétation d'une guitariste d'un rare talent !

Buenisimo!!! excelente!! de las mejores interpretaciones del Vals de Usher que he visto y oido

Excelent..!! The the work, the composer, the interpretation, and the guitar player....

Unsurpassed!!! bith Asya's playing and Master Koshkin's Composition skills!!!

You play very beautifully!!! You are the great player! Thank You!

Firat time I've heard the piece and it seemed to me that was played to perfection. Wonderful hands to watch, great video work. Many thanks/.

Fantastic!

just amazing!

Bravo wonderful job Asya!! this is one of my favorite pieces by Koshkin. :)

wow! Your performance and your guitar took sighs from me! very congratulations!

FANTASTIC!

Very original waltz played with passion!!! Big bravo, Slawek

wow replied by Master koshkin himself! you must be honored LSpencer!

omg this is pure perfection

Magnificent performance and video, congrats Asya!

I really like waltzes. I think you captured it pretty well.

Bravo maestra!!!!!!

Amazing!

Amazing performance !!! Full of energy! Congrats ;D

Great!

woman! I also love your rhythm and space!!!

you need to film more of her, I am sooo impressed

@nkoshkin Maybe I didn't articulate it clearly in my previous post, but I do have the utmost respect for this interpretation by Asya. And Gurochkin's production quality is superb as well.

I love it!

Wow, Edgar Allan Poe is waltzing in his tomb! Absolutely breathtaking performance (and video)! Congrats

Très beau!

Your moving notes are just like a great dancer`s steps,so deeply striking into my mind.

lovely

compliments from holland, great performance

This is the best interpretation of the piece of course (except I don't love the finale but it's fine) I'm just checking this piece, I really like Koshkin's compositions and who else will play it so great but Asya, being in that relationship with the composer, just awesome :)

Wonderful! My favourite interpretation on KZfaq by far. I just love the details like the small accelerando starting at 5:53 that add a beautiful bit of tension and madness. Shame about the tone, but I blame KZfaq for that.

The girl of the talent. ♡

So goog frases and energy with spirit of great short story of Edgar Allan Poe .....

i heard/saw john williams play this and not only did i hate is purple shirt but i hated the way he butured part of the song. Asya you bring justice to this song. Thank you.

¡Muy bueno! Me gusta tu interpretación de esta pieza.

Wonderful guitar playing and piece! Thumbs up! Subbed! Best regards Karlheinz

Great Playin!

purely freaken awesome :D

Just what I was searching for! I was reading the fall of the house of Husher while i Heard this

great video, thx

Excellent performance Regards Phil

great heavy stuff, masterly played!! micha

Wonderful

i think this is a wonderful performance of a spectacular piece! i've read several comments about the sound, and perhaps it is a little thin, but it works! i am studying this piece as well, and this is the version that i refer to quite often. i have to believe that mr. koshkin's wife performs this exactly the way that he intends it to be performed! -keith

beautifullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!! wow! besos

wow...why all this criticism against the composer himself? I am most certain that none of you have not even a fraction of his compositional skills and musicianship. This is true ignorance from those who find that their opinion about the work, or the player is credible. Koshkin's pieces need very high skill levels technically AND analytically. I suggest that you take the composers opinions into very serious consideration. It is very rare that a such a wonderful composer is so social.

Beautiful, I've always loved this piece. I am stealing a few things from it. :)

nice videography, she's got like 6 camera angles, including some that are operated by people instead of statically placed.

im in love D:

Wonderful. -Ron

you need to film more of her

I wish I could be that guitar

Великолепно! Прекрасно исполнено! У гитары какой-то особенно потрясный звук. Кто мастер, кто производитель? Очень хотелось бы узнать... Спасибо!!!

coolio!!!!!

я бы сказал драйвово) круто)

Her abilities make me think that it's time for me to put down my classical guitar. She's way too good.

@LSpencer777 You got a point there. But I think it's not necesarrily bad technique, more a matter of personal taste. I think the strong tone as nkoshkin calls it, suits Asya's style and is very effective in this piece. But I agree with you that it's a rather harsh sound. Myself, I would prefer a warmer sound too. With more flesh and less nail.

crazyness i dig it =O)

@SingHouse He ìs Nikita Koshkin himself, but I think you are so right. Her tone is thin/harsh/naily, but I think Koshkin won't admit this because she's his wife. One advice: if you put a video online that means that everyone can watch it AND comment it. Everyone can give his/her opinion and you just have to deal with that. If you don't want comments, then just disable it...

@ClassicalGas91 I won't admit this nonsence because I know Asya's sound not from what the PC gives out. I listen to her playing every day. Sometimes she can sound harsh because she is a very powerful player. But her tone is not thin and not naily. It was not me who put the video online. It's not on my channel. So I cannot operate with the comments, I cannot disable them or delete or whatever... I can only express my opinion together with the others. Same as You do or anybody else.

nice

4:30...who needs heavy metal??!!!

this is way harder than rock!

3:14 and on @_____@ auditory/musical perfection

This piece would benefit from having an even more "unhinged" approach. Watch the film with Vincent Price and see how bizarre it is. I'd like to see that madness coming through a little - it is in the music already. She certainly gets there by the 4m mark but I think she could be doing this from the start.

I think she has quite a nice sound. I also think it's kind of ridiculous that people are arguing with you about her sound. Clearly they do not know what they're talking about.

She is Nikita Koshkin;s wife.

I do too, but he is actually Nikita Koshkin :P

@Gitarobert This is pointless discussion. Both of You sounds like music school teacher who doesn't want to accept great playing of the pupil of another teacher. Best interpretation of my "Usher-Waltz"! I've never heard anybody else playing this piece like that! And about the sound I can give an advice. Come to Asya's concert. Listen to the quality of her sound directly, live. Not through the machines connected with the wires and all the other electronic sources provided the internet.

@LSpencer777 I'm very sorry but You are wrong. Asya's tone is very strong. You critics is just empty.

I see some prokofiev here

@jesusfields35 What do you mean?

Love it! but still have to get a round shape to her sound

@crazycool1128 Williams is great. But this performance is in a way more crazy... like it should be... like the story...

A very effective presentation visually, but the tone is thin. That's because her right-hand stroke should be from the large knuckle, but it's from the second and third joints. For example, see 0:32 - 0:34, where her large knuckle is actually pulling her fingers back from the strings while her smaller joints are moving in the opposite direction. Sorry, but that's bad technique and you can hear it in her tone. I know I'll get flamed for criticizing a beautiful woman, but that's the way it is.

@MrOdhako И???

2:45

ЗДОРОВО!

@SingHouse Please, don't listen to this video again. And no more comments from You. My comment is not stupid. It is a very good advise. If You can't stand anything, don't come to it again. I'm taking personally everything what is touching my music.

I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe and listening to this song.

@LUCADEMICXS Are you 12?

HOLY JESUS GOD THIS IS AMAZING. I love how dirty it is. Intentionally dirty

@jgbek1 sorry for you...

OMG!!!.. marry me!! =O

to much naily sound:/ but a love so much the frase after armonics

kiazko men vorralo porfa :v

@SingHouse Well, You need a doctor. But I'm not the one. I'm only composer. Can't help.

@nkoshkin @singhouse You're both right! Just get rid of your strange little pride issues here. Her tone, in other recordings, is lovely. Something about this specific one, whether it was her nails that day, or the mic being too close to the guitar, is a bit tinny sounding. Could be the EQ as much as anything. If we look at this objectively, we can learn from it. Otherwise, people just get offended, and then how much further are we in life? The composition is awesome, her technique is great

@LUCADEMICXS Who the hell are you?

her right hand nails are damn long. how can she play properly??

Maybe Black Sabbath and Koshkin should of wrote a track together.