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.
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!
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.
His understanding and approach to playing the guitar is utterly amazing! I've rarely witnessed anything like it. Though criticism is natural and in most instances understandable, such things as: counting errors, and how he holds the guitar, or it's too fast - one of the major criticisms from the peanut gallery - or his gesticulations, is silly and childish. Suppose he play it like the hundreds of other schoolboys who have played it, would that satisfy you? In truth, I believe the real problem is that Mr. Yamashita is doing it his own way, very well, while the schoolboys are still doing it the way they were taught. He's a man leading the way, not following. That's his crime. To play it any differently is a bad idea.
adam2eve Wonderful adam2eve!! you have sintetized the "problem" Yamashita engenders in "school boys... and the amazing reality in musical terms, that actually means Yamashita!
He really has technical security. But for me the way he plays this piece is a complete mess of notes and structural playing which is ABSOLUTELY necessary in classical guitar in order to avoid the well known excessive guitar presence in the score of the music. I dont understand how such an advanced guitarist from a technical point of view does not understand this basic concept of guitar interpretation.
Honestly, I have some issues with this style of playing, because in comparison with other great guitarists on his technical level, yamashita is just incapable of bringing out the warm and soft side of the sound-spectrum of the classical guitar. The instrument isn't very well suited for complex and fast playing, for me the Sound always matters most. His right hand is opened to the right, which makes him play mostly with the middle and right side of his nail, whereas almost all players from tarrega and segovia on adopted the slighty closed hand-position, which makes you play mostly with the left side of the nail. He also seems to have very long nail and doesn't seem to play with the nail/flesh-combo of Tarrega/Segovia
@@ubelstesje call me crazy but I absolutely love his sound on most his recordings, his bach disk was a bit too bright for my taste. I think you can take it or leave it but I do think taste aside he is sonically one of the more important players since Segovia died. There are a lot of robots out there and some are good our amazing but still smack a little of robotic guitar training.
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...
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!
This is a phenomenal performance. For most professional guitarists this piece would be impossible to play and yet Yamashita plays it with ease, or so it seems to me.
Not true. Playing this piece is possible for most professional guitarists. But nothing obliges them to at all times play it with the velocity of Yamashita! That's not written in the music. He takes "affretando" to extreme limits
Amazing work by the master. Well filmed. You can see every nuance of his playing. Slightly blurry but that is from the video. This is one of my all time favorites.
Sempre Yama supera il possibile...in modo incredibilmente interpretativo...a qualsivoglia musica egli (divino maestro)ponga il suo sguardo,questa sviluppa subito la massima potenzialità...è sublime in tutto ciò che egli interpreta con una tecnica di altri mondi...
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!
Jajaja de todos modos quien se tomó la molestia de colocar todos los errores y el tiempo en el que suceden tiene un oído privilegiado.No cualquiera los habría notado.Y para quienes critican su sonido potente,tiene su interpretación una gran cantidad de matices y una energía que no se vé en ningún otro interprete.
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.
Excelente! Qué importa esa "teatralidad" si toca como lo hace. Las mismas críticas he oído sobre Glenn Gould, pero nadie puede discutir la maestría de Gould ni de Yamashita con su instrumento!
Sin duda unos de los mejores guitarristas intrepretes de corazon de las piezas mas complejas transcrita para este instrumento superando en matices y velocidad al príncipe de la guitarra es una lastima que sea menos preciado por su original técnica. Sin embargo a mi parecer juliam brean, kazuhito y Williams los mejores
his musical brilliance is absolutely outstanding among all classical guitarrists that i now. the range of tone colours, dynamics, accelerando and diminuendo, everything comes naturally and flawless. his technique is so superbe, that he can forget about it and focus just on the music. sometimes he might exagerate the speed, but any guitarist of some skill will deeply appreciate the efforts of this master. thanks kazuhito 4 inspiring
Su tecnica es sobrehumana y excede a la de muchos de los mas grandes virtuosos del mundo.Criticarlo solo porque se le corrieron un poco los dedos en algunos pasajes me parece una estupidez.Esta interpretación es increíble!!!
¿QUIENES DE TODOS LOS QUE COMENTAN ERRORES, ETC, TOCAN 1/5 PARTE DE LO QUE TOCA YAMASHITA? PONGAN SUS VIDEOS ASI OPINAMOS TODOS. ESTE TIPO ES UN MAESTRO TOTAL.
Guided by spirits.. not of this realm. What a magnificent thinker, craftsman and genius
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.
All those people complaining about how much he moves, just close your damn eyes and listen!
I love the way he plays around with his guitar, expressing a whole spectrum of sounds.
He dominates the instrument, nothing holds him back. Excelence. People critisizing are probably envious.
I saw him live in Boston a few years back and even got to talk to him after the concert. It felt like meeting the pope...
I'm jealous and I'm not even criticizing.
Can’t fix stupid!😫
I sure am very jealous.
Who critic him? I don't see anyone play better than him..
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!
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.
His understanding and approach to playing the guitar is utterly amazing! I've rarely witnessed anything like it. Though criticism is natural and in most instances understandable, such things as: counting errors, and how he holds the guitar, or it's too fast - one of the major criticisms from the peanut gallery - or his gesticulations, is silly and childish.
Suppose he play it like the hundreds of other schoolboys who have played it, would that satisfy you? In truth, I believe the real problem is that Mr. Yamashita is doing it his own way, very well, while the schoolboys are still doing it the way they were taught. He's a man leading the way, not following. That's his crime. To play it any differently is a bad idea.
adam2eve Wonderful adam2eve!! you have sintetized the "problem" Yamashita engenders in "school boys... and the amazing reality in musical terms, that actually means Yamashita!
He really has technical security. But for me the way he plays this piece is a complete mess of notes and structural playing which is ABSOLUTELY necessary in classical guitar in order to avoid the well known excessive guitar presence in the score of the music. I dont understand how such an advanced guitarist from a technical point of view does not understand this basic concept of guitar interpretation.
He simply KICKS ASS!!!! :D
Honestly, I have some issues with this style of playing, because in comparison with other great guitarists on his technical level, yamashita is just incapable of bringing out the warm and soft side of the sound-spectrum of the classical guitar. The instrument isn't very well suited for complex and fast playing, for me the Sound always matters most. His right hand is opened to the right, which makes him play mostly with the middle and right side of his nail, whereas almost all players from tarrega and segovia on adopted the slighty closed hand-position, which makes you play mostly with the left side of the nail. He also seems to have very long nail and doesn't seem to play with the nail/flesh-combo of Tarrega/Segovia
@@ubelstesje call me crazy but I absolutely love his sound on most his recordings, his bach disk was a bit too bright for my taste. I think you can take it or leave it but I do think taste aside he is sonically one of the more important players since Segovia died. There are a lot of robots out there and some are good our amazing but still smack a little of robotic guitar training.
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!!
The speed and accuracy of his play was above human
素晴らしい演奏を、ありがとうございます🙏🙏🙏✨
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...
Yamashita is the classical guitar hero.
love yamashita ! cleaar , honest & resquing at 100 % . the best's can do that ! love it !
Una bellissima interpretazione...e' un grande chitarrista..e tecnico bravissimo.Bravo!!
First time I listen to this guitarrist. And I am fascinated. A virtuoso, indeed.
This is our favorite performance of this piece.
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!
@@antoncigur3727 Common practice. Everyone does this and has always done this. This technique goes way back.
How blessed our life who can appreciate the amazing plays of the guitar masters, one of them is Mr Yamashita
This is a phenomenal performance. For most professional guitarists this piece would be impossible to play and yet Yamashita plays it with ease, or so it seems to me.
nothing is impossible
Not true. Playing this piece is possible for most professional guitarists. But nothing obliges them to at all times play it with the velocity of Yamashita! That's not written in the music. He takes "affretando" to extreme limits
Вы забыли за Зимакова!
Вот он неповторим !
Скорость стомаховая !
🎉
Ямасита виртуоз!!!🎉
Браво Ямасита Браво 🎉😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉😂
Muchos la tocan, como en efecto lo puedes ver por youtube, pero al nivel de Yamashita ninguno.
I wonder if the critics of the amazing Mr. Yamashita have ever hold a guitar with their hands, just to carry it from one room to another.
Yamashita que pasada.Que poderío.gracias.
Fantastic, I would have loved to have heard that in person.
Amazing work by the master. Well filmed. You can see every nuance of his playing. Slightly blurry but that is from the video. This is one of my all time favorites.
la exelencia esta en disfrutar una musica y absorber toda su fjnura para alegrar el corazon sencillamente LINDA.
I like the deep expression and the beautiful sound he shows us in the more calm and meditative parts of this concert
Sempre Yama supera il possibile...in modo incredibilmente interpretativo...a qualsivoglia musica egli (divino maestro)ponga il suo sguardo,questa sviluppa subito la massima potenzialità...è sublime in tutto ciò che egli interpreta con una tecnica di altri mondi...
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!
él baila con la su guitarra. fantástico
such a great master, this piece was made for him!!.
Jajaja de todos modos quien se tomó la molestia de colocar todos los errores y el tiempo en el que suceden tiene un oído privilegiado.No cualquiera los habría notado.Y para quienes critican su sonido potente,tiene su interpretación una gran cantidad de matices y una energía que no se vé en ningún otro interprete.
こんな人が
天才やな
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.
Bravo maestro!
WOW!!! Superb!!!! Bravo, bravo!!!
A great master indeed
Excelente! Qué importa esa "teatralidad" si toca como lo hace. Las mismas críticas he oído sobre Glenn Gould, pero nadie puede discutir la maestría de Gould ni de Yamashita con su instrumento!
Yes!
MAGNIFIC!!!
tremenda maquina !!!
Inspirador, obrigado maestro.
pasional, no apresure los tiempos,genial.
A bold attempt to capture the rubato of Paginini. Fiery, and a great representation of Yamashita!
Bravo...... my Maestro........!!!!!!
Excellent
Grandma mary
Great!!
Sin duda unos de los mejores guitarristas intrepretes de corazon de las piezas mas complejas transcrita para este instrumento superando en matices y velocidad al príncipe de la guitarra es una lastima que sea menos preciado por su original técnica. Sin embargo a mi parecer juliam brean, kazuhito y Williams los mejores
I thought I'd seen/heard people with good right hand technique before, but this guy's is on a whole other level
Unbelieveable!
This guy's a real piece of work.
his musical brilliance is absolutely outstanding among all classical guitarrists that i now. the range of tone colours, dynamics, accelerando and diminuendo, everything comes naturally and flawless. his technique is so superbe, that he can forget about it and focus just on the music. sometimes he might exagerate the speed, but any guitarist of some skill will deeply appreciate the efforts of this master. thanks kazuhito 4 inspiring
Su tecnica es sobrehumana y excede a la de muchos de los mas grandes virtuosos del mundo.Criticarlo solo porque se le corrieron un poco los dedos en algunos pasajes me parece una estupidez.Esta interpretación es increíble!!!
Speechless
the best ever!
Нереально круто!!!
In Yamashita´s hands this capricho becomes en diabolical as the name says...
Super !!!! ❤️❤️❤️
天才！！
¿QUIENES DE TODOS LOS QUE COMENTAN ERRORES, ETC, TOCAN 1/5 PARTE DE LO QUE TOCA YAMASHITA? PONGAN SUS VIDEOS ASI OPINAMOS TODOS. ESTE TIPO ES UN MAESTRO TOTAL.
Pa tu cumpleaños
@@marcelotapia9649 Mejor pare el tuyo, necio.
Superbe !
exelente arigatou yamashitasan!!!!
beast mode
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.
I think the best guitar player ever
Me, too
Yamashita el mejor
To assustado aqui...kkkk que isso vei toca diabolicamente bem esse japa
Simply very good, I count 1 error after listening the 9 minute piece, he does not dominate the instrument, he is guiding the instrument.
There use to be several more clips of this concert around here...does anyone know where to get a copy of this dvd?
grande.
in love with this japanese
oh yeah!
Brilliant! If I could play like that I'd never leave the house.
That's how you get to play like that.
whoa
o cara é bom
Grooooosooo... (Y)!!!
Ars gratia artis, leave the master alone!
See the capriccio where he sets fire to it and then plays it with his groin. That's why I like him- he's not afraid to take risks.
Watching and listening to him makes every other virtuoso guitarist I know feel like an amateur
Can you imagine the hours of practice?!
He throws off light
Unbelievable
(*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡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✨✨✨😍😍😍。
comparto plenamente,a ver quien toca asi de todos nosotros?
Good virtuose
JIMI and Yamashita, Two Gods,
Does anyone here have the accompanying video for The Song of Compostela? And is this DVD for sale anywhere?
Ele é um auto-didata, self-master.
G.O.A.T.
kazuhito... plays better than god
After watching this you will release that u will need to take a rebirth and start practicing it from very 1st day
@DerekJReichert He is faster than Eliot Fisk with much better control and much better tone.
@wing low: thats what he s doing, playing music - with everything he is, body and soul.
He s men is very perfect this is very dimostrazion on guitar classical
4:01 quick tune-up :DD
and check out the nails on his left hand, how can he fret like that!?
聴いてると なぜか身震いしてしまう
Kazuhito Yamashita goes God Mode
this man is possessed
This is what I imagine a performance by someone like Fernando Sor must have been like.
Fisk should watch and learn.
yaaaaaawwwwwwwn
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。
I'm curious, anyone knows what guitar brand master musician Yamashita uses?
Jose Ramirez