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I absolutely agree with you Michajeru. She's great. This performance makes me cry.

+Monique Ledermann OH YEAH ITS THE REAL THING !

+Jonluxy Have your wife check out this documentary. Afterwards she should be okay about it.

Lucas Little ,true

They are part of those uncivilized, unwashed huns, cretins and nimrods, who lack any sense of value, but who use this medium to display their lack of social graces through the anonymity which are afforded by these fora. A sad commentary on the deterioration of common values of respect and acknowledgement in our society in the 21st. century.

Somebody has to be the East German judge, I guess.

They are people who had bad bad times in their childhood. Just feel sorry for them.

I love this piece, but must object when someone who disliked it is called a cretin. That kind of thinking is wrong, stupid, and probably dangerous!

So this is where you miss the boat , like most most . John Williams doesn't approach it "delicately" , even at slow parts , bcs Spanish culture is about passion .

@@franz909 not everyone wants to go to spain every time. Fiery passion is good. Sometimes a little serenity fits the mood better. Written notes are ambiguous.

Iron Feliks I guess there are many different levels of accomplish guitarists . …. and this girl has certainly accomplished this piece ! I think if anyone one has anything negative to say …. it would probably be her manner in which she over does the drama in her movements . In other words she's not as good as she thinks she is ! Although this is just a video . I'd prefer just to watch her play without the ego !

jionnie I'm thinking that you might not know who she is. She really is as good as she thinks she is. In fact, to get to her level of perfectionism, she's probably more critical of her own playing than any of her critics are. I think that she's earned the right to display a bit of a stage persona, especially considering that she's one of those performance-crazy instructors at Juilliard who make it their life's ambition to foster similar passion in their students. She's inspired my kids, who started classical guitar at ages 7 and 9 respectively. They love her playing and classical guitar in general so much that they refuse even to pick up their electrics. They even play Metallica on their classical guitars. I don't know. If this woman can inspire two little kids to practice so much at such a young age (just as Messi and Ronaldo have inspired them in football), I say more power to her!

Iron Feliks I'll tell you how. She starts playing with mysterious arpeggio, making, let's say, me, wondering what is this going to be, creating ominous atmosphere, full of ambiguity. Adding bass strings make it even better. Then she puts some flamenco chords, breaking the feeling with more cheerful spice and then I think " oh, great another flamenco player, but maybe this time it'll be different" . But it turns out it isn't. Mandatory slowdown, mandatory fast bass addition to slow part. And feeling, that you're hearing something, you've already heard. After this wonderful prelude, my hopes were really high. Too bad for me, I guess.

Nothing mysterious about it, it was published in 1892 by a Spanish pianist and played by Flamenco guitarists ever since, it is the perfection of her form that is amazing, it is kind of like American blues guitar, invented down south and responsible for Rock and Roll, lots of people can play it but few really capture the gritty essence of a Keith Richards and these days, very few new Blues guys bring anything new to the style, this Flamenco lady pumps life into a style that many butcher.

Marek Petters what are you talking about? It's just asturias, the way it was written...

Si

My ex husband used to play this hard piece with great technical expertise but not this degree of feeling.

Muito bom!!

since im a sound engeneer, and a classical guitarist i am almost certain the video and the audio were not recorded at the same time so i doubt that neither she or anyone else could play this good while lying on the sofa.

It could..... **takes pants off**

Spot on!

What about Ana Vidovic my friend

At this level of expertise, it all becomes a matter of whose interpretation you prefer at any given time. Sharon, Ana, John, Andres...it doesn't matter to me. Each one's rendition is breathtaking to me. And I've been playing well over 50 years.

@@AlexandrosIoannides Vidovic is close in my opinion, when it comes to overall "Wow" factor. There are at least two videos of her on youtube playing leyenda. The newer one is the better one I feel. There seem to be some minute hick-ups in Isbin's version. No such thing in Vidovic's. However, the overall interpretation of Isbin, especially, how she explores the different dynamics, makes me, personally "feel" the music a little bit more than Vidovic's versions. Vidovic seems to combine John Williams' technical perfection (which, to me, completely lacks soul) with a good dose of emotional expression. Isbin is just a tiny bit less perfect, but I think (or rather feel), that she captures the emotion a little bit better. But it is down to personal taste, really. Speaking of personal taste, I like Virginia Luque's very aggressive, very Flamanco like version extremely well. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8B3qr2Wv629Yn0.html However, what is true for all three women in my view, is that they all play this piece considerably better than the much acclaimed John Williams. Did he play it technically perfectly and as fast as it can be played? Yes, but that's about it.

@@AlexandrosIoannides Definitely !! She is unbelivable!

Great thought this is, I like Julian Bream's version best. So stop throwing around the word "definitive", you don't know what it means.

This is a great piece and she played it beautifully And I've been playing guitar for at least 4 years and this a difficult piece but when you get the hang of it, the shit people say doesn't even matter and I don't think she would care but good on you 😎😎😎

obfuscation its a joke the piece was PERFECT or better !

sono daccordissimo cob te! A quelli a cui non piace: stronzi

Really, there is no "perfect" version of this piece, I've heard lots of other versions, And a lot of them are played beautifully. Artists add their own personal touch to make it theirs own. Bars 63 through 79, she plays very softly and slowly. Where as in other versions the artist will play it at a kind of a medium speed. Also she emphasizes on accenting the low E in bars 17 through 25. I love it when artists add their own personal touch and I love it even more when it works so beautifully with the song. Music played "perfectly" is just sounds, when we add our own touch it becomes music. As a guitar player I flock to songs like this and listen to the different versions to draw inspiration and help me discover different ways I can play.

Carlo Croccolo SHARON ISBIN TKE BEST GUITAR PLATER IN THE WORLD....PLAYS ASTURIAS .....I did not even heard better played this MUSIC THANK YOU.......!!!!!!!

Funny!

I was there to visit family August for 20 days in Gijon. I visited those places and fell in love with Asturias. I will return to the fatherland of my family and ancestors.

Spain is unique in all aspects...

@@onderozenc4470 Only paradise on Earth.

@@onderozenc4470 😊

I was going to say aggressive but I think masculine is a better description, fantastic piece.

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@@kentmains7763 prezzo, pqhtldell. Autojeep Scarica il nuovo video della nuova collezione fellm,

Decades of study my friend. I hear that some of the greats could go seat to couch to shower.

Angelo Amorim "Ah cool, someone left a guitar in this abandoned lamp storage facility!"

Adam Bice oh good , its a eleven thousant dollars guitar , perfectly tuned. might as well play some spanish music

Angelo Amorim hai ragione...Scusami..

Angelo Amorim Very some dream .I like you ! So much ! 😘

OHH I was just here 7 years later thinking the EXACT SAME THING, and then I saw my own comment LMAOOO this is too funny

No tiene ninguna relación con el flamenco. Esta es una obra escrita originalmente para piano.

This NOT Flamenco! It is CLASSICAL !

Flamenco uses techniques like golpe that's not applied in classical guitar.

Just try Ana Vidovic for once

Those are a lot of days...

It's been 5 year mate

@@tubwaiyan6776 He is still practicing

@@mendax7125 Still can't play it!!

@@robertjoyce7887 Damn that's some dedication right there.

Andalusia, with fields full of grain.

@@giugnotorvo except that Asturias is on the opposite side of Spain than Andalucia

@@JulioLeonFandinho except that @MegaBigduff started a Doors' song to which I just added the following line.

I want to see you again and again

Yeah , that's what Jim Morrison felt while listening