Your right. Its a phenomenon thats been around for years. People don't know how to listen. Im a professional guitarist. Whenever I come across a new piece I close my eyes and listen to it. Most people watch and listen. Music is foremost an aural concept. Visual does not come into it. This will piss many people off but concerts can be a distraction if you want to appreciate the music. We get so caught up in the whole experience because thats what we are told you do. It wont change though. People have forgotten how to listen.
I just had a vision of him playing in front of Andres Segovia at one of his Master Classes which I was fortunate enough to see the Maestro teaching in New York . Yamashita would have lasted less than a minute before Segovia dismissed him . He’s not holding the guitar properly . He moves it all over the place plus he’s emotive and his face shows it all forbidden by Segovia . Personally, I don’t care if he plays on his head . He’s a great musician who possesses a Paganini like technique and is exceedingly expressive . He’s is a very underrated guitarist because of the above . In my mind , he may be the best guitarist of this century .
@@channel_archistoriac Yeah, he (Yamashita) has some fans, but not that many. Segovia is a giant who changed the classical guitar status in the world. It's an outrageous insult to compare him with this eccentric guitarist.
His connection to the melody is masterful. He is exciting and entertaining, but always makes it about the music, never about him. He is a true Maestro!
Espero que migre para o Violão de 8 cordas (com uma afinação estilo Galbraith, para ampliar a tessitura), e leve o Instrumento a patamares nunca dantes atingidos...
There's no one that hears music quite like this guy, amongst guitarists. Segovia claimed that the guitar is an orchestra in miniature, Yamashita actually wholly makes good on this statement.
Legend. People who criticize his style are utter IDIOTS. Imagine how many IDIOTS criticised Paganini for his unusual violin style. You can never be GREAT by accommodating other people. The true artist answers only to the DIVINE.
@@sydneysights8697 maybe thats because english is not my main language? you are the definition of top tier stupid. you literally have nothing better to do in your life than hate on yamashita i find it funny that you commented that 3 years ago and since you are always on your phone you answer a few minutes later i have alot of better things to do im not gonna argue with a guy that has nothing better to do anymore.
I just must add something. He's idiosyncratic. He holds his guitar differently and moves it in subtle ways that modify the sound, and it looks like he utterly invented his own technique of playing this instrument. I don't know, maybe he borrowed techniques from Japanese Samisen or Koto playing? but it sounds absolutely amazing, and beautiful. There's some thing Japanese over the whole rendering, like... there's no person behind the music. just music.
Also the way he picks the strings in different spots, going close to the bridge for a brighter sound, and a mellower going up to the sound hole. We are tought to add these dynamics in playing pieces, but he seems to use litterally every inch/cm of the string to bring out so many different tones. As usual Yamashita brought the thing to another level.
I agree with you this time, Motti! Aren’t you relieved, lol. It really is incredible, isn’t it, how he seems to have left no stone unturned, no orthodoxy unexamined. And I totally agree, the music just seems to be there in the world. I see him working hard but the music is just free of all that. I am experimenting with listening to him with closed eyes, and it is very different - I am clearly bringing ideas and thoughts from seeing into my hearing and missing a lot of dimensions. Though, wow, so many dimensions! Of course it is easy to become disoriented!
Such mastery, that reaches the very end - simplicity. No show off, and no need for show off. Calm perfectionism and majesty of sound and rendering. What music!
Mr Yamashita is an accomplished guitarist with good technical proficiency, but his exaggerated body language, or body tremor, is an a display of anxiety to come through with musicality, that’s where he fails to achieve the bench mark of excellence and the artistry of perform arts. Playing fast and hard is not the only measure of judging how good the performer is! He needs to study phrase by phrase and understand the music beyond the written notes, and present the music within.
How did Kazuhito make out on the Beethoven Symphonies? I heard he was working on all of them. LEADER! He certainly is a leader and this rendition of the very difficult Castelnuovo-Tedesco work is superb!
I saw Kazuhito Yamashita in Vancouver about 1989 I believe. He performed his iconic Pictures at an Exhibition, and New World Symphony. I was a guitar student at the time, and was blown away. About that time the critics of the classical guitar world panned him for sacrificing tone for blinding technique. However I knew I would never reach the technical mastery I saw him perform that evening. A night to remember.
I was at that concert and really enjoyed his musicality and command. My only criticism was that it was for a Recital Society audience that was used to musicians from the larger classical music community (pianists, string soloists etc.), quite a few in the audience were not impressed by the idea of the New World Symphony on solo guitar, more than a few actually walked out. Great recital but bad image for the guitar in the larger classical music world.
I absolutely LOVE the aggressiveness in his playing!
Love it!
I realized while playing that the body will move automatically when you hit your groove and your fingers dance on their own..you know its right.
Sounds awful.
I thought I'd seen/heard people with good right hand technique before, but this guy's is on a whole other level
yaaaaaawwwwwwwn
Mozart would have been so proud.
All those people complaining about how much he moves, just close your damn eyes and listen!
Your right. Its a phenomenon thats been around for years. People don't know how to listen. Im a professional guitarist. Whenever I come across a new piece I close my eyes and listen to it. Most people watch and listen. Music is foremost an aural concept. Visual does not come into it. This will piss many people off but concerts can be a distraction if you want to appreciate the music. We get so caught up in the whole experience because thats what we are told you do. It wont change though. People have forgotten how to listen.
I just had a vision of him playing in front of Andres Segovia at one of his Master Classes which I was fortunate enough to see the Maestro teaching in New York . Yamashita would have lasted less than a minute before Segovia dismissed him . He’s not holding the guitar properly . He moves it all over the place plus he’s emotive and his face shows it all forbidden by Segovia . Personally, I don’t care if he plays on his head . He’s a great musician who possesses a Paganini like technique and is exceedingly expressive . He’s is a very underrated guitarist because of the above . In my mind , he may be the best guitarist of this century .
I understand A. Segovia. I would have also been jealous for such a virtuosity and expressiveness!
His antics are distracting rather than entertaining, for serious music lovers.
@@johnlay3040 on the contrary, expressive! Segovia at his prime couldn't do even a 1/3 of what Yamashita could.
@@channel_archistoriac Yeah, he (Yamashita) has some fans, but not that many. Segovia is a giant who changed the classical guitar status in the world. It's an outrageous insult to compare him with this eccentric guitarist.
@@johnlay3040 Segovia just had way more TV back and all. Japan wasn't media center as Europe was at that time.
I think the best guitar player ever
Me, too
Jibberish
A great master indeed
(*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます🙏素晴らしい演奏をありがとうございます✨✨✨😍😍😍。
素晴らしい演奏を、ありがとうございます🙏🙏🙏✨
こんな人が 天才やな
His connection to the melody is masterful. He is exciting and entertaining, but always makes it about the music, never about him. He is a true Maestro!
Ars gratia artis, leave the master alone!
He s men is very perfect this is very dimostrazion on guitar classical
YAMASHITA Kazuhito Official ruclips.net/user/YAMASHITAKazuhitoOfficial
Pra mim o melhor violonista de todos tempos...impressionante
Espero que migre para o Violão de 8 cordas (com uma afinação estilo Galbraith, para ampliar a tessitura), e leve o Instrumento a patamares nunca dantes atingidos...
彼の存在を知ったのは題名のない音楽と言う番組がありましたが、その時に妹さんと一緒に何かのギター曲を奏でていたのを思い出しました。今から何十年も前の出来事なので詳しくは思い出せませんが、若くして世界一のギタリストとして紹介したのを思い出しました。番組の中ではオーケストラと共演して大変難しい曲でギターとオーケストラのとっても早い曲確かチゴイネルワイゼンだったと思いますが、ギターのいろんなテクニックを駆使して自分でアレンジしながら素晴らしい演奏をしたのを思い出しました。あの頃はまだ高校生位だったと思いますが、もうすでに世界1のギタリストになっていましたのでこれから先どんなギタリストになるのだろうと思っていましたが、現在の演奏活動がどうなっているのかとても気になります。もしRUclipsを通して最近の動画が見られたら幸いです。ありがとうございました。
Watching and listening to him makes every other virtuoso guitarist I know feel like an amateur
-doesnt repress natural hand mvts
Guided by spirits.. not of this realm. What a magnificent thinker, craftsman and genius
Just can be it =)
After watching this you will release that u will need to take a rebirth and start practicing it from very 1st day
I love the way he plays around with his guitar, expressing a whole spectrum of sounds.
There's no one that hears music quite like this guy, amongst guitarists. Segovia claimed that the guitar is an orchestra in miniature, Yamashita actually wholly makes good on this statement.
Made in Japan 🇯🇵
Some variations are slower than Segovia's
To assustado aqui...kkkk que isso vei toca diabolicamente bem esse japa
He play like sushi! Banzai!
Legend. People who criticize his style are utter IDIOTS. Imagine how many IDIOTS criticised Paganini for his unusual violin style. You can never be GREAT by accommodating other people. The true artist answers only to the DIVINE.
As with Paganini it almost seems he actually did sell his soul to the Devil.
山下が演奏すると聞き飽きるほど聞いた魔笛が全く別の曲に変貌して しまう恐ろしさ。そしてあの快速演奏の心地よさはなんとも形容しかねる。 拍手喝采だわさ。
日本が最も誇るべき演奏家は小澤や内田ではなくて山下だ。 グールド、イチロー、そして山下。
Please share more of these great videos!!! Kazu is the most underrated CG player that I can think of. Yet he is superb and so unique.
What? "Underrated"??? To my knowledge he's extremely highly rated.
@@rafaelgeldin3848more like unknown..not even a majority of classical guitarists have heard about him. He was a flash of lightning
@@rafaelgeldin3848He’s so very incredible that there is a lot of room for his playing to be underrated! He should be even more highly regarded!!
Unbelievable
Another charming piece utterly butchered by Yamachita...his playing is so jarring to the ears it's offensive !!
Another jeleous guitarist lol
Only a low standards Yamashita fan would misspell jealous!! LOL
@@sydneysights8697 maybe thats because english is not my main language? you are the definition of top tier stupid. you literally have nothing better to do in your life than hate on yamashita i find it funny that you commented that 3 years ago and since you are always on your phone you answer a few minutes later i have alot of better things to do im not gonna argue with a guy that has nothing better to do anymore.
I just must add something. He's idiosyncratic. He holds his guitar differently and moves it in subtle ways that modify the sound, and it looks like he utterly invented his own technique of playing this instrument. I don't know, maybe he borrowed techniques from Japanese Samisen or Koto playing? but it sounds absolutely amazing, and beautiful. There's some thing Japanese over the whole rendering, like... there's no person behind the music. just music.
Also the way he picks the strings in different spots, going close to the bridge for a brighter sound, and a mellower going up to the sound hole. We are tought to add these dynamics in playing pieces, but he seems to use litterally every inch/cm of the string to bring out so many different tones. As usual Yamashita brought the thing to another level.
the way he’s holding the guitar is the classical position which allows ur hand to reach the frets better
I agree with you this time, Motti! Aren’t you relieved, lol. It really is incredible, isn’t it, how he seems to have left no stone unturned, no orthodoxy unexamined. And I totally agree, the music just seems to be there in the world. I see him working hard but the music is just free of all that. I am experimenting with listening to him with closed eyes, and it is very different - I am clearly bringing ideas and thoughts from seeing into my hearing and missing a lot of dimensions. Though, wow, so many dimensions! Of course it is easy to become disoriented!
Such mastery, that reaches the very end - simplicity. No show off, and no need for show off. Calm perfectionism and majesty of sound and rendering. What music!
Mr Yamashita is an accomplished guitarist with good technical proficiency, but his exaggerated body language, or body tremor, is an a display of anxiety to come through with musicality, that’s where he fails to achieve the bench mark of excellence and the artistry of perform arts. Playing fast and hard is not the only measure of judging how good the performer is! He needs to study phrase by phrase and understand the music beyond the written notes, and present the music within.
This guy is the best classical guitarist of his generation.
This is our favorite performance of this piece.
How did Kazuhito make out on the Beethoven Symphonies? I heard he was working on all of them. LEADER! He certainly is a leader and this rendition of the very difficult Castelnuovo-Tedesco work is superb!
I saw Kazuhito Yamashita in Vancouver about 1989 I believe. He performed his iconic Pictures at an Exhibition, and New World Symphony. I was a guitar student at the time, and was blown away. About that time the critics of the classical guitar world panned him for sacrificing tone for blinding technique. However I knew I would never reach the technical mastery I saw him perform that evening. A night to remember.
Amazing story!
I was at that concert and really enjoyed his musicality and command. My only criticism was that it was for a Recital Society audience that was used to musicians from the larger classical music community (pianists, string soloists etc.), quite a few in the audience were not impressed by the idea of the New World Symphony on solo guitar, more than a few actually walked out. Great recital but bad image for the guitar in the larger classical music world.
Toca como una máquina, no como un ser humano. Su interpretación es plana.
Pelo contrário. Essa música é perfeita na interpretação dele. Roa-se de inveja.
I was witness to Maestro Yamashita's performance at Royce Hall/UCLA in the late 1980s. He will remain the most expressive guitarist!!
Good virtuose
Speechless
Oh my god
4:01 quick tune-up :DD and check out the nails on his left hand, how can he fret like that!?
Can you imagine the hours of practice?!