I've worked with Ana Vidovic. I started in classical coughing after switching from cello aged 13. I've been coughing professionally now for over 30 years and have worked with some of the worlds finest audiences and on many famous recordings. In this particular work the challenge, as always, is to cough between the beats when least expected and to work with the sound engineers to choose the best part of the auditorium to achieve the correct reverberation for the genre. Believe it or not we did this in one take. Ana is great to work with, she actually prefers the Cadenza coughing fit over her work and very much leaves it up to me as the artist.
Yes, I'm a bit of a pro myself, but my speciality is more baritone, you know, downstairs. I had to give up playing piano accordion because of a medical issue, the problem being that people within ear shot of my playing kept attacking me, my new instrument is more organic, and indeed can at times, take the breath away.
I mastered coughing in my late 20's and moved on to bigger things. I've been working on causing others to cough, and with the right combination of baked beans and sprouts I can have the whole auditorium choking with just one massive fart!
I'm sure since the Korean science fiction series was released, "Memories of the Alhambra" will be added to the list of recognized guitar pieces. Ana Vidovic played it in this concert apparently.😊
Hands down the best version of Asturias out there. No galloping, string attack is smooth and then aggressive at just the right moments, and her volume control over the tremolo is perfect. I’ve listened to this dozens of times and it still holds up. Well done Ana!
@@leonasolomovska1806 When she is doing the triples, that is technically a form of tremolo. Though usually played with PIMA, there are plenty of variations. She is doing a PIM (quasi) tremolo.
@@michaelbaucum6787 well may as well lock me up in an insane asylum because it's the second time I went to greece to see her, and I have purchased a ticket for next year already! next year I'll be playing in the masterclass for her, I prepared julia florida!
I've seen this piece performed by many artists. Most are technically perfect, but perfection can leave us cold. Ana's rendition brings an ebb and flow of dynamic build and release that creates tension, anticipation and emotion. She brings us on a journey that transports and elevates the listener to a place beyond. This is what music is meant to do for the soul.👋
We Spaniards have a special bond with the guitar, it is an essential instrument in our culture. And we are lucky that many people here know how to play it. We are paralyzed when we hear someone playing it well, anywhere, in any situation, it electrifies our skin. It's our kryptonite. And this piece by maestro Albéniz in particular makes me breathe so slowly..., because I'm afraid to interfere with each note. I close my eyes and listen to a mountain stream, with clear waters, jumping from rock to rock. And I love how this Ana Vidovic interprets it.
@@jimcharles651 Lol, I've never heard that, and I find it hard to believe that anyone here thinks so. It may be called a spanish guitar, but it is an instrument that is played all over the world. I have seen Japanese play flamenco in an optimal way (and flamenco guitar is very difficult).
I play classical guitar well enough to “play around” with this iconic piece. That gives me all the more appreciation for her performance. One of the best I’ve heard. Bueno!
The Aussie Williams is the best....he is about a quarter Chinese which may give him an affinity with high pitched twanging sounds.....and he loves a cuppa during intervals.....!
I just started learning how to play tremolo as a songwriter blues player and iv never been more inspired. I also just realised how amazing classical guitarist are. It’s as if I’m a beginner again.
The only problem with this piece was the man's cough, and this lady's concentration is a sign of her concentration power, especially this difficult piece, which requires concentration to raise and lower the tone of the piece, and to slow down and speed up the piece, and I am standing in my house clapping for her 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
What ever on this world are you on about? What lack of concentration??? Did you concentrate enough when you wrote your self-contradictory comment? @ZakharArazel
@@nandoflorestan my english not good and i translate. My intention was to encourage this lady's concentration, and unfortunately, the problem was from Google Translate. i fix them
A masterpiece, exquisitely played and the timing perfect. A pleasure to witness a true master at work taking full advantage of the acoustics for the world to enjoy his cough
As a heavy metal fan this piece is fantastic. I listen to it often. It has an intensity and ferocity that is missing that is missing in most music. I love it.
Not sure how to describe what I just witnessed. Unless you play at least some guitar, you have no idea how good this is. I'm stunned. Passion and fire with subtlety. Bravo young lady!!!!!
Every time I watch this I appreciate it a little bit more. Her articulation is just sooo so clean. The bass has such a clear punch and the higher notes ring out so clearly. You can hear each individual note so clearly and distinctly when she plays vibrato, and the timing is so perfectly even as well. By far though the most STUNNING part of this performance is her excellent use of dynamics. Absolutely pristine.
I agree, and prefer this even over many others, John Williams included though he’s no slouch in his performance in Spain. I tried for years to fully learn this song but there are some parts that i just never overcame and eventually stopped playing - which is the real tragedy. Really been thinking of just going and getting myself a nice classical again and starting over.
what is so hilarious is that there is another version of the piece on yt - played by Paco Rojas - where there's a guy coughing at the same time...! It would seem that there's a professional cougher hired for the explicit purpose of coughing for this piece...
The story goes Ana nearly destroyed the universe through the paradox of her music performance of Asturias reaching perfection and therefore challenging god but a man uncontrollably coughed and thus saved us all from being sucked into the void.
@@douglasames6495 Truth! I was at a piano performance for a radio recording (pre cellphone). The audience was told to be VERY quiet. An old lady got out a candy. She tried to unwrap the candy slowly... crinkle, CRinkle, crINKle, crinKLE, CRINK. About as subtle as a barking dog. After the performance the pianist gave the if-looks-could-kill glare at the aulde bitch.
That isn't just finger-picking chords . This is very very difficult classical and/or spanish guitar technique . Close your eyes and it is like listening to two seperate guitar players in harmony, counterpoint, or one playing accompaniment and the other the main melodic line . She is one of the best I have heard .
this so spot on. she really outputs two different players with juxtaposed expression and power (both are fast but one is brute and staccato and the other mellow and connected) in those hectic arpeggios. very good and helpful comment, thanks for posting.
@ Lalala I like some Paco de Lucia... but most of it sounds like impressive elevator music to me. This is melodic, nice to hear and I can feel it more than most of Paco's stuff.
1:27 note how flowing the transition is from triolic tremolo to 1/8 tremolo. It's moments like those that makes the difference between a good performance or an enchanting performance.
I've lost count of the amount of times I've watched/listened to this video. Her timing and feel are incredible. And her right hand is FLAWLESS! Would love to catch a live show at some point.
This was the piece my father performed for his college recital in for his major in classic guitar. I’ve grown up hearing it since I was a baby and it will probably forever be my favorite piece to hear played, and she played it so sweetly and beautifully that I just listened to it with my eyes closed and pretty much reimagined my childhood.
This has the most intricate finger picking I've ever heard and she plays it with perfect precision! And it really great to see that a classical guitar piece has 35 million views which is solely because it's so INSANE great!
I was born in Portugal (west of Spain) in 1984. To be honest, I never cared much about the guitar as an instrument, but of course it's hugely popular here and everywhere between the classical and modern elements. Don't quite remember how I got to this video, but this performance just captured my soul: it brought to life all the feelings that haven always been there growing up in Portugal and Iberia - the tunes, the history, the cultural connection, the connection to the arabic world from like 800+ years ago when arabic peoples invaded and left a lot of their culture. All together, it just feel it enriches so much my life just hearing a perfect rendition of this, which stirs my soul. I wish everyone experienced this - we wouldn't have fighting or terrorism.
I m Syrian, I learned the guitar when I was 12 and Asturians was one of the first pieces I fell in love with. I have always been a big fan of the guitar, and Spanish music, and later on Spain when I visited. I also heard lots of amazing things about Portugal from my friends who visited it, especially Portuguese tarts and the fish. I felt at home when I was in Spain, I connected to it much more than the UK who I've been living in for 3 years now. The culture, the history, the architecture, the food, the people, the lifestyles. I can all connect with cz of how similar it is to my culture and background. What made me even more connected is when I did an ancestry DNA test and found that I have a substantial percentage of Iberian in me. The Levant particularly and Iberia have been connected since the Phoenicians 4000 years ago, even before the MENA invasion of Iberia. Love to all Iberians everywhere!!
I've listened to four pieces from this performance, all worthy of album status, all ruined by the coughing man. How did he manage to ruin every song? Etiquette mandates that one remove himself from the performance immediately or at least use a handkerchief to muffle one's cough. But, no, every song had to be tarnished. My heart goes out to Ana. What a magnificent performance!
To be honest that guy only coughed twice during the whole concert. I know because he was sitting direct behind me L. What you can’t hear in the recording is that after his second cough (3:41) a woman next to him muttered something which I found really annoying. If looks could kill… But all that is gone now. I really don’t hear any of those coughs now. The state Ana puts me in with her music just has no room for distractions. Ps, this was my first Ana Vidovic concert, in December I´m going for my sixth J.
The only reason coughs bother people is because you put so much attention on them. If someone coughs, and you just ignore it, you realize it really didn’t take away from the performance as much as you try to make it seem🤷🏿♂️
I've been listening to this piece of music for the past 15 years, played by more people than I can account for, and Ana Vidovic's rendition of it is by far my favourite. Your playing is an inspiration Ana Vidovic, I hope you continue to share your talent with the World for a long time.
I love the dynamics of her phrasing, how she goes from quiet to incredibly forceful sound without changing the intonation or rhythm at all, which really brings this piece to life.
So many guitar videos, so many not-so-perfect performances. There always seems to be a section or passage where you can tell the performer glossed over or didn't master during practice. Not here! Her perfect execution, feeling, dynamics, and timing inspires me to trim the nails and work on this piece. Thanks for posting!
I've listened to a TON of variations on this piece...hers is, hands down, the BEST! I must have listened to this 1000 times! I wish I could kiss those fingers!!!
she made mistakes but 99% of guitarists couldn't play this at all. i doubt any non-player would notice any of them, and even as a guitar player I barely could without careful listening
Who is the world dislikes a great, insanely hard-working musician during a close-to-perfect performance. I just don't get it, she's the mother of guitar
Love her focus and deep concentration on her playing. I also love how fluid she is in her playing. Notice she never looks or plays towards the camera she is totally immersed in the music.
My son is a student at a UK conservatoire and is learning this beautiful piece. This is a wonderful example of the piece played accurately with real delicacy and musicality. My son can’t play it this well yet, but I hope with a bit more practice, he will be close.
I learned this song front to back recently and i gotta say.. i love Ana's way of playing overall. She doesn't get too dramatic or play it way too fast and show off like other people I've seen. Its not too hard of a song to learn, but very fun to play once you get it down
GUILHERME,I am British UK born,but my Son,who is a recording engineer/producer,recorded an album in Portugal,a lot of years ago,and came back with a Portugese guitar. He then introduced me to Carlos Piedrre's..[?] playing..,...,[a famous Portugese Portugese guitarist]. I am now thinking that this piece would sound gorgeous if it was played on a Portugese guitar!..[it is gorgeous being played by Ana..!!]
@@highpitwilma You are referring to Carlos Paredes... Yes, that musician was the epitome of Portuguese «folk/classical» music... Also very, very evocative... He was also a composer. «Verdes Anos» was a film music/score of his. RUclips has a short piece... Just search for «Anos Verdes - Carlos Paredes».
Exatamente, Guilherme. Acho muito belo da sua parte dar luz ao facto de que a nação vizinha, Espanha, tem uma grande cultura e que merece ser apreciada. Principalmente no que toca à cultura, Portugal e Espanha têm muito que se aprecie, sem qualquer rivalidade. Um abraço de um brasileiro que vive em terras lisboetas.
At 73, looking back on my boring career as a CPA, I should have practiced more...time better spent than on late night tax returns. I guess the saying is true: We get too soon old and too late smart. This young lady is the best I've ever heard!
Don't be so hard on you, I bet you play amazingly well. And nothing is boring when you look behind you and just connecting dots, when you had fun along the way!
I have huge respect for Segovia, Williams and Bream, really huge. But for me this is the most impresive all-around version of Asutiras I ever heard (so far). The level of Expression, Dynamics and technique is amazing. She have probably practiced this soo much that she looks concentrated and relaxed at the same time. Another one that played this piece really, really well is Pino Feola and Maestro Pepe Romero.
There's a cough like this in every concert I've ever been too. It's invariably timed to occur in the quietest part of the music. As such, it didn't really bother me, I just said, "of course." Very nice performance. The guitar, not the cough.
I don't play the guitar but gosh the way she played this piece is the best I've heard. The clarity of her tone is so classical. One can taste each note she touched!
Lord! This guitarist is absolutely, freaking awesome! It makes my fingers hurt just trying to imagine how she does it. . I wonder how much practice it took for her to master this piece. What a magnificent artist. Thank you for sharing.
+Ray She's definitely a master of her chosen craft. To be able to play bass notes with the thumb and tremolo-pick with the fingers simultaneously is no easy feat, even at a slower speed.
+Ray She is a great guitarist, but this piece is actually considered quite an easy one for classical guitar. It's probably one of the first that I learned. If you enjoy the piece, you should just try to learn it; I think that you'll be surprised by how quickly you pick it up.
Thanks for the info. but I'm just a beginner, only 2 and a half years, and think this is beyond my skill level, especially that tremolo. It would take me six months alone to be able to do that half assed, lol. Maybe someday :-)
Ana, bravo bravo bravo. I have always been convinced that people who have a gift, and share it with the world, deserve our recognition and we should be grateful for having the privilege of listening to these pieces of music, performed by these magnificent professionals.
As a Classical guitarist in the past I know how difficult the instrument can be. This performance was excellent. The clarity and intonation is of a very high standard, and to myself I say " notice that there was no string slide noise" Thankyou.
I used to think I was quite good at classical guitar. I still have the guitar I was given by grandfather some time before I was 10 years old, and I have tried to play some of these timeless pieces but I cannot avoid loud string slide, and fuzz as I move to the next note etc. Indeed this guitarist moves with the most incredible accuracy and the clarity is impeccable. I'm addicted to listening to it, now. Also I don't tell people I "used to" play guitar any more, I'll never be anywhere near this good. :)
@@aardvarkbiscuit2677 Sorry for you health problems, but I have been trying to play this piece for more than 50 years and It still sounds like shit. This young lady is something special.
This woman makes guitar so dreamy, i can feel the smoothness in her fingers that can make sound all the notes so clear. She really makes me to practice more and more.
Not to say this woman isn't talented, but you missed 2 levels above her and above them, Ida Presti. If you haven't heard of her, look up her playing this.
Erik Wolowitz -- If the piece is played as written and no 'artistic liberties' are taken, there shouldn't be a pronounced "...2 levels..." difference between the performances of two accomplished musicians.
One of my favourite piece's of all time. So difficult and intricate. You play it faultless, Sharp as a pin. J. Williams does an incredible version too in the live seville concert.
That was my only goal when I went to college for classical guitar... just to be able to perform that piece, and as a classical guitarist to perform Koyunbaba op.19"...But life has had other plans.... but watching people perform them brings a smile to my heart. Those pieces and Invocaion y danza..... Ill never be able to perform them. But I am glad that there is new young talent showing others the way and this video still warms my heart! God bless you all. Keep doing what you love. :)
Simply the best play of Asturias available on RUclips. Right tempo, right tremolo, clear and crispy, perfectly defined. Supreme fingering. Almost superhuman clarity of each note. Chords on beat 25, 26 and 27, and their repetitions, and the more difficult 33, 34 and 35 are simply perfect. Perfectly fused in the phrases. Bravissima. Divina.
after nearly over 20 years of playing finger picking stuff ive decided to finally get out of my comfort zone, i havn't looked at this in years and its still hard but iam getting there, there switching between the parts is so probably the trickiest bit next to the double B sections, hope to get there one day
I am an amateur guitar player and I do try to play this piece. And this recording is always my inspiration. It's not that I really hope to play at this level or near about, but I can hear her version in my mind whenever I play this. Anna is Great!!!
This music makes me sad, I remember when I was a kid before getting to bed I was going to the bathroom and I could hear my spanish grandpa playin guitar alone in his bedroom at 85 yo...
I feel you bro. But my grandpa plays those old 60s-70s songs but since I was a smol kiddo I never heard it...he died when I was 10. I started playing at age...13-14. Wish he was still alive so I coulda jammed with him and learn some nice songs he widowed(yes he widows very well,my mom says so)
I've worked with Ana Vidovic. I started in classical coughing after switching from cello aged 13. I've been coughing professionally now for over 30 years and have worked with some of the worlds finest audiences and on many famous recordings. In this particular work the challenge, as always, is to cough between the beats when least expected and to work with the sound engineers to choose the best part of the auditorium to achieve the correct reverberation for the genre. Believe it or not we did this in one take. Ana is great to work with, she actually prefers the Cadenza coughing fit over her work and very much leaves it up to me as the artist.
drowned.
Yes, I'm a bit of a pro myself, but my speciality is more baritone, you know, downstairs.
I had to give up playing piano accordion because of a medical issue, the problem being that people within ear shot of my playing kept attacking me, my new instrument is more organic, and indeed can at times, take the breath away.
underrated comment
I mastered coughing in my late 20's and moved on to bigger things. I've been working on causing others to cough, and with the right combination of baked beans and sprouts I can have the whole auditorium choking with just one massive fart!
@@pobsdad Oh, my dear boy, you have missed the point, the contemporaneous belch and expulsion of methane is the mark of real genius.
At first glance this piece seems very hard to play.
But as you learn it, you'll find out that yeah it really is very hard.
Sure. Just 15 years of study and training!
Not gonna lie here. They had us in the first half😂
Nope, its not hard if practiced nice and slow
@@lispuhizamustafa763 STFU
Lol!!!!!😂😂😂😂
I am from Asturias (in Spain) and I have to say that this piece is very important to us and to see it performed so sweetly is something spectacular
Whats the importance of said piece? Curious
Im also form Asturias. There’s a municipality in the in Asturias that’s actually named after my last name.
Spain the guitar tree! Spain is Guitar. They culturally intertwined.
@caprice.t hm ok, but the style is very reminiscent of the south of Spain.
I have family in Gijon ! Viva Asturias !
Nothing says “ Spanish guitar “ better than Asturias. Fabulous piece.
Except that it's written for piano.
@@suremate never heard a piano version.
@@MrLeigh122Look up the original Suite Española by Albeniz. It’s piano music.
Wait till you hear Malagueña.
I'm sure since the Korean science fiction series was released, "Memories of the Alhambra" will be added to the list of recognized guitar pieces. Ana Vidovic played it in this concert apparently.😊
Why everyone is saying it's hard to play, i just clicked on video and it started
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3:15 'Bronchitias' by Isaac Akoffdrop.
you need more likes
@@thekumarize he really does
this is hilarious
!Cojones!
😹😹😹😹😹 Lmao!
This girl gave me the inspiration to sell my guitar
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dude
@@PlasticSaber more like ffffffffffffffffffffffff dude
LMAOOO
Hahahaha
thanks for make smile on my face
Hands down the best version of Asturias out there.
No galloping, string attack is smooth and then aggressive at just the right moments, and her volume control over the tremolo is perfect.
I’ve listened to this dozens of times and it still holds up. Well done Ana!
Definitely agree, at least on RUclips
She got the ending wrong. There's supposed to be a final arpeggio, which she left out for some reason.
Where did you hear tremolo in this song?
@@leonasolomovska1806
When she is doing the triples, that is technically a form of tremolo. Though usually played with PIMA, there are plenty of variations. She is doing a PIM (quasi) tremolo.
nope
Ana Vidovic plays Asturias by Isaac Albéniz on a Jim Redgate classical guitar accompanying coughing by Vico Astrolli on a classical dry throat.
😂😂😂
Omg nooo🤣
Bravo 🤣
Hahahahah
The cough in G minor at 3:41...simply amazing.
what a st**** guy
Isn’t that why were all here ?
The timbre of the phlegm is superb
Dude i think the same , it was literally at the right time
omg noo
Relax everyone...the coughing man was taken out back after the show and summarily executed.
Didnt know the performance was in China..
Go away. Emo is dead.
@@earlgrae If this was in China you wouldn't even be able to joke around about executing people.
@@creetan9997 are you always this much of a wet blanket?
@@fakename287 Which comment of mine made you think I'm a wet blanket?
I saw Ana play this live last year, I travelled to Greece to see her, the best concert I've ever attended.
Funny, I travelled to see her in Reno and people thought I was crazy to travel for a single guitarist
@@michaelbaucum6787 well may as well lock me up in an insane asylum because it's the second time I went to greece to see her, and I have purchased a ticket for next year already! next year I'll be playing in the masterclass for her, I prepared julia florida!
in the halkidonio conservatory you mean? Yeah this is going to be pretty insane
@@youraveragetrollface7577 Yes, that's the one, they had some other great musicians come as well. They're all great, she's just the most famous.
I've seen this piece performed by many artists. Most are technically perfect, but perfection can leave us cold. Ana's rendition brings an ebb and flow of dynamic build and release that creates tension, anticipation and emotion. She brings us on a journey that transports and elevates the listener to a place beyond. This is what music is meant to do for the soul.👋
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@@Mustafa_Akbulut djndndjd
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Amazing words!! 💜💜💜
Exactly! one can succeed focused on perfection and fail all at the same time!...this is the best performance of this piece I've heard yet to date!
We Spaniards have a special bond with the guitar, it is an essential instrument in our culture. And we are lucky that many people here know how to play it. We are paralyzed when we hear someone playing it well, anywhere, in any situation, it electrifies our skin. It's our kryptonite. And this piece by maestro Albéniz in particular makes me breathe so slowly..., because I'm afraid to interfere with each note. I close my eyes and listen to a mountain stream, with clear waters, jumping from rock to rock. And I love how this Ana Vidovic interprets it.
Muy bien expresado.
@@xangarabana Gracias, paisano ;-)
@@taranvainas a ti por la buena expresión
Is it true they have a saying there that goes, "there's nothing sadder than an Englishman with a guitar" lol! Did I get it right?? lol
@@jimcharles651 Lol, I've never heard that, and I find it hard to believe that anyone here thinks so. It may be called a spanish guitar, but it is an instrument that is played all over the world. I have seen Japanese play flamenco in an optimal way (and flamenco guitar is very difficult).
I play classical guitar well enough to “play around” with this iconic piece. That gives me all the more appreciation for her performance. One of the best I’ve heard. Bueno!
I've started to learn it recently, and I'm way too slow. But now I am the way more motivated to practice!
@@juliaklever819 Same here heheh, where are you at right now ?
Can you help me to learn more
The Aussie Williams is the best....he is about a quarter Chinese which may give him an affinity with high pitched twanging sounds.....and he loves a cuppa during intervals.....!
I just started learning how to play tremolo as a songwriter blues player and iv never been more inspired. I also just realised how amazing classical guitarist are. It’s as if I’m a beginner again.
The only problem with this piece was the man's cough, and this lady's concentration is a sign of her concentration power, especially this difficult piece, which requires concentration to raise and lower the tone of the piece, and to slow down and speed up the piece, and I am standing in my house clapping for her 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
What ever on this world are you on about? What lack of concentration??? Did you concentrate enough when you wrote your self-contradictory comment? @ZakharArazel
@@nandoflorestan my english not good and i translate. My intention was to encourage this lady's concentration, and unfortunately, the problem was from Google Translate. i fix them
same with me.
Proof that women excel even when men get in our way 😂❤
A masterpiece, exquisitely played and the timing perfect. A pleasure to witness a true master at work taking full advantage of the acoustics for the world to enjoy his cough
That comment was so funny I stopped breathing!
The mastery of this comment is the fact that you think you're complimenting the performer until the very last two words. Brilliant
@GloriousTapeworm the sky is blue
@@Wilantonjakov yep the sky is blue, and i'm not complaining
@GloriousTapeworm Aah but the sky is not always blue and that was an annoying cough forever marring an otherwise flawless and beautiful performance!
As a heavy metal fan this piece is fantastic. I listen to it often. It has an intensity and ferocity that is missing that is missing in most music. I love it.
@@paulmcgrath6118 I am familiar with that song but had not noticed the similarities between it and this one. Thanks for pointing it out.
Yes you right
Do you possibly think that Spanish caravan was inspired by this masterpiece because they sound very similar and this one is obviously first
@@honrarkley3174 That's correct, Spanish Caravan's guitar was directly taken from this piece. Robbie Krieger is classically trained.
@@GG-jt8st Wow good to know
Not sure how to describe what I just witnessed. Unless you play at least some guitar, you have no idea how good this is. I'm stunned. Passion and fire with subtlety. Bravo young lady!!!!!
WELL THATS TRUE
I know what you mean, I play, but I can't work out how she gets so much into her playing. Just incredible!
@@strumbadstroller7350 My tremolo (fast picking on the "drone" string) is not up to snuff to play this song. It *is* incredible!
Haha,well I kinda know, I play the ukulele, and I must say, this is quite amazing
Yeah first time I heard her...it was wow. .still is...the more you watch and listen too her...xxx
Eight years old, and you still got me coming back to this every now and then. You are a legend in your time.
Imagine some guy trying to impress her with his guitar, then she takes it from him and plays this.
I'd string up
but can she play wonderwall tho
Then he’ll start coughing
I guess if it was Alessando Penezzi he'd be alright... ruclips.net/video/IU59ueizlKM/видео.html
I’d take my guitar and walk the hall of shame 😐
Every time I watch this I appreciate it a little bit more. Her articulation is just sooo so clean. The bass has such a clear punch and the higher notes ring out so clearly. You can hear each individual note so clearly and distinctly when she plays vibrato, and the timing is so perfectly even as well. By far though the most STUNNING part of this performance is her excellent use of dynamics. Absolutely pristine.
Bravissima
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Man, you're an artist în your own kind, I think a painter and your tools : you are painting with words !
Да! ... Но главное, что эта прекрасная музыка гитары начинается в её сердце.🙏💖💖💖
I agree, and prefer this even over many others, John Williams included though he’s no slouch in his performance in Spain.
I tried for years to fully learn this song but there are some parts that i just never overcame and eventually stopped playing - which is the real tragedy.
Really been thinking of just going and getting myself a nice classical again and starting over.
The coughing was perfectly executed. The music was alright too I guess.
Ah, a person of culture. LOL
Lol
I'd have kicked him up the arse
I watch these videos just for the coughing its a shame they have all this unnecessary guitar playing.
I was looking for this comment
I can officially play up to the 48 second mark on like, 40-50% speed after a few hours of practice lmao. This song is insane dude
i want to play this by the time i m 40. right now i l 37, hopefully that s enough time :p
I can play the first 8 notes in about 2 minutes, with very, very few mistakes.
YOU CAN DO ITTTT!!!!
It's really hard on guitar because it''s a piano piece. It wasn't originally meant to be played on guitar and was written on piano.
It's not a song dude.
what is so hilarious is that there is another version of the piece on yt - played by Paco Rojas - where there's a guy coughing at the same time...! It would seem that there's a professional cougher hired for the explicit purpose of coughing for this piece...
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What do you mean? It's in the sheet music
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I'm sure she practices 40 hours a day!
Edit: To the dears in the comments without Ling Ling Insurance: calm down and practice!
Not really this one is not that hard.
No, the guitar is practising with her
40 hours not enough, a liitle bit more
Ling ling
Yes... She's the Ling Ling from guitar gang
The story goes Ana nearly destroyed the universe through the paradox of her music performance of Asturias reaching perfection and therefore challenging god but a man uncontrollably coughed and thus saved us all from being sucked into the void.
😂 that was deep
I like it!
thanks, brother, this is part of european renewal, a balkan sister playing a southwestern european song.
Very very funny thanks 👍
OMG! Too funny. That poor girl, in another video the phone is ringing while she's playing! Lol
I hold my breath at most difficult pieces as if I was performing myself. You made me feel involved and deep into this beautiful music. Thank you.
They should distribute some eucalyptus drops before the concert starts
The only thing worse than coughing man is some woman crinkling a candy wrapper!
Or a Walther PPK with a good silencer
😂😂 Good one 👍
@@douglasames6495
Truth! I was at a piano performance for a radio recording (pre cellphone). The audience was told to be VERY quiet. An old lady got out a candy. She tried to unwrap the candy slowly... crinkle, CRinkle, crINKle, crinKLE, CRINK. About as subtle as a barking dog.
After the performance the pianist gave the if-looks-could-kill glare at the aulde bitch.
This piece looks hard, but I think I can do the coughing part
Its actually pretty easy. Learned it in a few days to be honest. There certainly are better coughing pieces
I dream of becoming the Esteban of coughing...maybe someday.
MC Andy they got us in the first half, not gonna lie
Wow, you are all men of culture, I see.
Which minute
That isn't just finger-picking chords . This is very very difficult classical and/or spanish guitar technique . Close your eyes and it is like listening to two seperate guitar players in harmony, counterpoint, or one playing accompaniment and the other the main melodic line . She is one of the best I have heard .
your ears are true
It looks a lot like rolling a banjo to be honest
this so spot on. she really outputs two different players with juxtaposed expression and power (both are fast but one is brute and staccato and the other mellow and connected) in those hectic arpeggios.
very good and helpful comment, thanks for posting.
Agreed. She emphasises all the right notes perfectly I love it
@ Lalala I like some Paco de Lucia... but most of it sounds like impressive elevator music to me. This is melodic, nice to hear and I can feel it more than most of Paco's stuff.
1:27 note how flowing the transition is from triolic tremolo to 1/8 tremolo. It's moments like those that makes the difference between a good performance or an enchanting performance.
I've lost count of the amount of times I've watched/listened to this video. Her timing and feel are incredible. And her right hand is FLAWLESS! Would love to catch a live show at some point.
She is incredible! Andres Segovia would be proud. Ignore the coughing. The show is about her and the music.
Yeah ignore the fucker music is there despite the asshole
There is always some ignorant, old fart to cough and spoil everything.
….. it must be a be a puerile, jealous guitarist.
This is the most incredible rendition of Asturias I have ever heard.
true! from India.
It's a good one, but I think John Williams is unbeatable
@@flrn6233 Kim Chung does an outstanding version as well.
@@flrn6233 I was going to answer this, he truly is a Master. I guess studying under the tyrant Segovia comes with some rewards.
Abraham K: The same goes for me. Cheers.
I often come back to this performance. Her dynamics are superb. Like breathing.
This was the piece my father performed for his college recital in for his major in classic guitar. I’ve grown up hearing it since I was a baby and it will probably forever be my favorite piece to hear played, and she played it so sweetly and beautifully that I just listened to it with my eyes closed and pretty much reimagined my childhood.
This has the most intricate finger picking I've ever heard and she plays it with perfect precision! And it really great to see that a classical guitar piece has 35 million views which is solely because it's so INSANE great!
Actually not solely
Her tremolo it's just a beautiful thing out of this world
Here are the things you are all looking for for:
3:15
3:41
you're welcome!
Let's face it: incredible performance from her side!
lol
Probably Antifa once more at it destroying everything.
LMAO
Findus243 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thank you
Okk these timestamps are the covid-19 award nominees.
This is sooo good, I love it!!!!! The emotion in this piece is exceptional. It comes in waves that wrap you up like a warm blanket.
I love Spanish classics like this. This seems to me to suggest barely controlled passion, some primal feelings that are bubbling under the surface.
That's the Spanish emotion
@jerrylouiswiththethickness6403 u are retarded, don't talk me about the history of my people and my country, scum.
@jerrylouiswiththethickness6403, Total nonsense, Albéniz wasn't gipsy, and Flamenco comes from the spanish ancestral boleros
@jerrylouiswiththethickness6403 , By the way, what nonsense about german/irish music, the irish fathers are the spanish, irish mithology.
That's exactly what I was feeling throughout the entire piece.
I was born in Portugal (west of Spain) in 1984. To be honest, I never cared much about the guitar as an instrument, but of course it's hugely popular here and everywhere between the classical and modern elements. Don't quite remember how I got to this video, but this performance just captured my soul: it brought to life all the feelings that haven always been there growing up in Portugal and Iberia - the tunes, the history, the cultural connection, the connection to the arabic world from like 800+ years ago when arabic peoples invaded and left a lot of their culture. All together, it just feel it enriches so much my life just hearing a perfect rendition of this, which stirs my soul.
I wish everyone experienced this - we wouldn't have fighting or terrorism.
I m Syrian, I learned the guitar when I was 12 and Asturians was one of the first pieces I fell in love with. I have always been a big fan of the guitar, and Spanish music, and later on Spain when I visited. I also heard lots of amazing things about Portugal from my friends who visited it, especially Portuguese tarts and the fish.
I felt at home when I was in Spain, I connected to it much more than the UK who I've been living in for 3 years now. The culture, the history, the architecture, the food, the people, the lifestyles. I can all connect with cz of how similar it is to my culture and background. What made me even more connected is when I did an ancestry DNA test and found that I have a substantial percentage of Iberian in me. The Levant particularly and Iberia have been connected since the Phoenicians 4000 years ago, even before the MENA invasion of Iberia. Love to all Iberians everywhere!!
MY GOD that response was amazing thank your for sharing
Original Arabic
Just shut up and learn some music. This stupid comments.... so sad....
Yes, we know where Portugal is. Its not like it has been moving around...😉 😊 ...joke. I agree with you.
I've listened to four pieces from this performance, all worthy of album status, all ruined by the coughing man. How did he manage to ruin every song? Etiquette mandates that one remove himself from the performance immediately or at least use a handkerchief to muffle one's cough. But, no, every song had to be tarnished. My heart goes out to Ana. What a magnificent performance!
To be honest that guy only coughed twice during the whole concert. I know because he was sitting direct behind me L. What you can’t hear in the recording is that after his second cough (3:41) a woman next to him muttered something which I found really annoying.
If looks could kill…
But all that is gone now. I really don’t hear any of those coughs now. The state Ana puts me in with her music just has no room for distractions.
Ps, this was my first Ana Vidovic concert, in December I´m going for my sixth J.
I agree. Leaning back in my chair. Eyes closed and miles deep into the entrancing notes....(COUGH) jeez 🤦🏻♂️
The only reason coughs bother people is because you put so much attention on them. If someone coughs, and you just ignore it, you realize it really didn’t take away from the performance as much as you try to make it seem🤷🏿♂️
If a caugh is ruining the song you're not IN IT...
Scott Hollingsworth 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 How did you find out?
I've been listening to this piece of music for the past 15 years, played by more people than I can account for, and Ana Vidovic's rendition of it is by far my favourite. Your playing is an inspiration Ana Vidovic, I hope you continue to share your talent with the World for a long time.
I love the dynamics of her phrasing, how she goes from quiet to incredibly forceful sound without changing the intonation or rhythm at all, which really brings this piece to life.
Great observation. There is such a fluidity to her playing; like a flowing stream of melody. Just beautiful.
Indeed. Her technique is impeccable.
Yep when she strum there's is not pauses between
This has the perfect tempo and dynamics of all the renditions I have ever watched.
Make it look easy; the true mark of a classical player.
okeeeyyy for me it don´t look easy... But i´m Playing Guitar too and my Teacher said, that this is a very high art...
My dad was a great flamenco guitarist and he played this song and you Ana taking it to another level is incredible ❤
after years of practice and dedication ive finally learn how to cough like guy on 03:40
JAOGWOGLWLG 💀💀💀
Lmfaooooo
OMG the timing on that😂
Imagine coughing like that at someone's performance. Especially in between a rest and a phrase change
@@kamronbyrd7628 that's what makes it so funny😂😂
No doubt, she has captured the spirit and the feeling of this piece and transmit it with energy, talent and magic.
The timing and vibrato on the cough at 3:16 was really quiet exquisite. Ana's playing is truly not of this earth - a great example of pure perfection!
Everything is just perfect…the guitar, Ana and the way she performs. And for all this, a huge thank you.
One of the best if not the best performances of Asturias, shout out to Ana Vidovic
Albéniz captures the history, the culture, the very soul of Spain in this piece, and this beautiful young lady presents it to us perfectly. Perfectly!
I come back here every month to check the new comments about the coughing guy 😅
U r good
Natasa Mladenovic and u r gooder
Me too😂😂😂😂
I do not even hear the coughing guy anymore, he became a part of this performance😀
I'm glad I'm not the only one
Humans are capable of doing beautiful things. I wish I could live in a world full of this. That tremolo on the 7th fret is just perfect.
Humans… talented and amazing if they just can stop wars😢
She is amazing. Her technique is impeccable and her timing is without reproach.
Every year I come back to see what the new posters are saying about that person coughing
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There is always someone in the audience who coughs at the wrong time :)))
So many guitar videos, so many not-so-perfect performances. There always seems to be a section or passage where you can tell the performer glossed over or didn't master during practice. Not here! Her perfect execution, feeling, dynamics, and timing inspires me to trim the nails and work on this piece. Thanks for posting!
I've listened to a TON of variations on this piece...hers is, hands down, the BEST! I must have listened to this 1000 times! I wish I could kiss those fingers!!!
IMHO Ana Vidovic is the world's greatest guitarist. However, wasn't that a mistake at the 2:47 mark?
she made mistakes but 99% of guitarists couldn't play this at all. i doubt any non-player would notice any of them, and even as a guitar player I barely could without careful listening
@@Zmej420BlazeIt Agreed.
I just now landed on this video and am stunned by Ana's playing. Thank you Ana!
Who is the world dislikes a great, insanely hard-working musician during a close-to-perfect performance. I just don't get it, she's the mother of guitar
Love her focus and deep concentration on her playing. I also love how fluid she is in her playing. Notice she never looks or plays towards the camera she is totally immersed in the music.
Gary Hohler marcoanñ
I love the mysterious suspenseful presence in her playing. Tingles my soul.
The best version i ever heard of this Piece. She played it wounderfoul Every tone was clean. Brilliant great work.
Stunning. I can’t begin to imagine the amount of work required to memorize and recite something like this. Segovia smiles from above
Naše gore list...koliko strasti, ljubavi i znanja...bravo Ana ! 😇🎸🎶
My son is a student at a UK conservatoire and is learning this beautiful piece. This is a wonderful example of the piece played accurately with real delicacy and musicality. My son can’t play it this well yet, but I hope with a bit more practice, he will be close.
I learned this song front to back recently and i gotta say.. i love Ana's way of playing overall. She doesn't get too dramatic or play it way too fast and show off like other people I've seen. Its not too hard of a song to learn, but very fun to play once you get it down
So beautiful and evocative... As a Portuguese, I believe that this is the kind of music that makes one love Spain...
Well said, it is nice when people apreciate culture from some other country. Greetings from Croatia
GUILHERME,I am British UK born,but my Son,who is a recording engineer/producer,recorded an album in Portugal,a lot of years ago,and came back with a Portugese guitar.
He then introduced me to Carlos Piedrre's..[?] playing..,...,[a famous Portugese Portugese guitarist].
I am now thinking that this piece would sound gorgeous if it was played on a Portugese guitar!..[it is gorgeous being played by Ana..!!]
@@highpitwilma You are referring to Carlos Paredes... Yes, that musician was the epitome of Portuguese «folk/classical» music... Also very, very evocative... He was also a composer. «Verdes Anos» was a film music/score of his. RUclips has a short piece... Just search for «Anos Verdes - Carlos Paredes».
Exatamente, Guilherme.
Acho muito belo da sua parte dar luz ao facto de que a nação vizinha, Espanha, tem uma grande cultura e que merece ser apreciada. Principalmente no que toca à cultura, Portugal e Espanha têm muito que se aprecie, sem qualquer rivalidade.
Um abraço de um brasileiro que vive em terras lisboetas.
@@natasamladenovic1765 pa jel ova sto svira nasa???
At 73, looking back on my boring career as a CPA, I should have practiced more...time better spent than on late night tax returns. I guess the saying is true: We get too soon old and too late smart. This young lady is the best I've ever heard!
Thank you for sharing.
It is hard food for thought to me.
Never too late to start, those who state otherwise are wrong.
Don't be so hard on you, I bet you play amazingly well. And nothing is boring when you look behind you and just connecting dots, when you had fun along the way!
0:35 when the camera films from this angle, you can see the shadow of her hand. It's mesmerizing
Right
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I have huge respect for Segovia, Williams and Bream, really huge. But for me this is the most impresive all-around version of Asutiras I ever heard (so far).
The level of Expression, Dynamics and technique is amazing. She have probably practiced this soo much that she looks concentrated and relaxed at the same time.
Another one that played this piece really, really well is Pino Feola and Maestro Pepe Romero.
There's a cough like this in every concert I've ever been too. It's invariably timed to occur in the quietest part of the music. As such, it didn't really bother me, I just said, "of course." Very nice performance. The guitar, not the cough.
You're way too wise to be commenting on RUclips videos. ;)
@@ericduminil . Truth. He could have at least posted in all caps. ;-)
Jeffrey Stayman so how much money do I have to have to be like one of you people?
Hey, be happy. At least it wasn't a cell phone...."Just gotta take this call..."
yes, this is so common at concerts. artists know someone will ALWAYS cough, it's natural and they don't care
I don't play the guitar but gosh the way she played this piece is the best I've heard. The clarity of her tone is so classical. One can taste each note she touched!
Lord! This guitarist is absolutely, freaking awesome! It makes my fingers hurt just trying to imagine how she does it. . I wonder how much practice it took for her to master this piece. What a magnificent artist. Thank you for sharing.
+Ray She's definitely a master of her chosen craft. To be able to play bass notes with the thumb and tremolo-pick with the fingers simultaneously is no easy feat, even at a slower speed.
+6672rock I might be wrong, but the beginning is actually the easiest part of the piece.
+Soham Chowdhury its is, without a doubt
+Ray She is a great guitarist, but this piece is actually considered quite an easy one for classical guitar. It's probably one of the first that I learned. If you enjoy the piece, you should just try to learn it; I think that you'll be surprised by how quickly you pick it up.
Thanks for the info. but I'm just a beginner, only 2 and a half years, and think this is beyond my skill level, especially that tremolo. It would take me six months alone to be able to do that half assed, lol. Maybe someday :-)
Beautiful!!
Worst than the cough is 95% of the comment being about it. And unfortunately, one more here :(
Tu l,as dead bro
No matter how many times I hear her play it's goosebumps. She's incredible.
not as good as john williams's version
Ana, bravo bravo bravo. I have always been convinced that people who have a gift, and share it with the world, deserve our recognition and we should be grateful for having the privilege of listening to these pieces of music, performed by these magnificent professionals.
Brava, brava, brava!
Only a handful of times have I ever witnessed such a prolific master of their instrument.
this is so incredibly clean. I can’t stop watching it. I wish I could play this piece as well as Ana does, it’s so difficult but don’t give up :(
Practise makes perfect💪
I am soo in love with this. Ana Vidovic is a legend. I am a guitarist and she is my IDOL.
I'm Venus A Ana Popović?
Saludos desde Asturias Ingrid
As a Classical guitarist in the past I know how difficult the instrument can be. This performance was excellent. The clarity and intonation is of a very high standard, and to myself I say " notice that there was no string slide noise" Thankyou.
I used to think I was quite good at classical guitar. I still have the guitar I was given by grandfather some time before I was 10 years old, and I have tried to play some of these timeless pieces but I cannot avoid loud string slide, and fuzz as I move to the next note etc. Indeed this guitarist moves with the most incredible accuracy and the clarity is impeccable. I'm addicted to listening to it, now. Also I don't tell people I "used to" play guitar any more, I'll never be anywhere near this good. :)
@@peterlindsey4178 - I played classical for nearly 50 years and got quite good. I now have peripheral neuropathy and play like shit.
@@aardvarkbiscuit2677 Sorry for you health problems, but I have been trying to play this piece for more than 50 years and It still sounds like shit. This young lady is something special.
@@denzilgwilliam6043 - she's awesome
This woman makes guitar so dreamy, i can feel the smoothness in her fingers that can make sound all the notes so clear. She really makes me to practice more and more.
Select difficulty
-Easy
-Medium
-Hard
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-Ana Vidovic
Not to say this woman isn't talented, but you missed 2 levels above her and above them, Ida Presti. If you haven't heard of her, look up her playing this.
M. Fink come on..she is nothing special, below many many other interpreters
Erik Wolowitz -- If the piece is played as written and no 'artistic liberties' are taken, there shouldn't be a pronounced "...2 levels..." difference between the performances of two accomplished musicians.
@@billholt174 Intonation, style, and emotional expression is important to music. I would argue that Segovia would tend to agree with that.
-Easy
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-Ana Vidovic
-Andres Segovia
everything was on point; technique, passion, the cough...
bLazE lol
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its considered a sign of respect to cough during a classical performance
He should have been thrown out.
It's true, in very very remote parts of the world
One of my favourite piece's of all time. So difficult and intricate. You play it faultless, Sharp as a pin. J. Williams does an incredible version too in the live seville concert.
That was my only goal when I went to college for classical guitar... just to be able to perform that piece, and as a classical guitarist to perform Koyunbaba op.19"...But life has had other plans.... but watching people perform them brings a smile to my heart. Those pieces and Invocaion y danza..... Ill never be able to perform them. But I am glad that there is new young talent showing others the way and this video still warms my heart! God bless you all. Keep doing what you love. :)
Simply the best play of Asturias available on RUclips.
Right tempo, right tremolo, clear and crispy, perfectly defined.
Supreme fingering. Almost superhuman clarity of each note.
Chords on beat 25, 26 and 27, and their repetitions, and the more difficult 33, 34 and 35 are simply perfect.
Perfectly fused in the phrases.
Bravissima.
Divina.
It is talented people like Ana Vidovic you must hear to believe what can be done on a guitar !
Exquisite music must be heard once in your life !
Absolument remarquable, cette jeune artiste est une virtuose avéré
J'apprécie beaucoup
after nearly over 20 years of playing finger picking stuff ive decided to finally get out of my comfort zone, i havn't looked at this in years and its still hard but iam getting there, there switching between the parts is so probably the trickiest bit next to the double B sections, hope to get there one day
Talented, charming, delicate and elegant. Perfection Congratulations, a hug from Brazil :)
Brazil, land of Master Heitor Villa-Lobos!!!
No , he was Welsh
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Villa-Lobos
I am an amateur guitar player and I do try to play this piece. And this recording is always my inspiration. It's not that I really hope to play at this level or near about, but I can hear her version in my mind whenever I play this. Anna is Great!!!
Dang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Perfect tempo, smooth as silk and full of color.
What did I just watch ..😮..I mean seriously ! how can anybody be so good at something .........amazing❤
After all these years it still sounds so good 😭
Each note is crystal clear, a combination of Ana’s extreme talent and the incredible luthier Jim Redgate
Together Perfection 👌
I don't think this piece could possibly be played better. Bravo!
@@donquicke8240 I agree 💯 it’s perfection 👏👏👏👏👏
This music makes me sad, I remember when I was a kid before getting to bed I was going to the bathroom and I could hear my spanish grandpa playin guitar alone in his bedroom at 85 yo...
I feel you bro. But my grandpa plays those old 60s-70s songs but since I was a smol kiddo I never heard it...he died when I was 10. I started playing at age...13-14. Wish he was still alive so I coulda jammed with him and learn some nice songs he widowed(yes he widows very well,my mom says so)
En este siglo que se ha fortalecido la convicción de que las mujeres son tan capaces como los varones. He aquí un hecho más.
He was happy playing his guitar, that’s a good memory. Let it make you happy too.
Foarte frumos .
One of the best guitar performances I have heard. Technically perfect and really sophisticated dynamics and expression. Great.
what masterful playing! The dynamics are flawless and it takes my breath away. the phrasing conveys the emotionality. I could listen all day.