Julian Bream was a mystic. 5:55 "We hate death, and we don't know how to deal with it." Rest In Peace Mr Bream, I've dealt with death, and I know your spirit is most definitely eternal.
This is an exceptionally interesting document of a meeting between two excellent musicians. PS. There is nothing or nobody after Julian Bream, nothing like. He had the sound, musician's soul.
you prolly dont give a shit but does anybody know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot my account password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me.
@Mitchell Russell Thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
JB made a fun trip to those islands and might as well get the most the stay. Lets play badminton in between our music....ahhh perfect, reminds me of old musical comraderies of the past..
The THINGS this man says...It is as he said in another documentary "i'm a musician who happens to play the guitar". Alas if every musician could perceive music in such a candid way. "Look no further, my pupil. Thou must play legatto 'cause, as the master said, you must sustain the life at each note, until its necessary death." God bless
I must admit, I have never been a great fan of the "12 Tone School". My limited musical knowledge prevents me from that experience perhaps. And yet, When I hear my inspiration, Julian Bream, "pluck" away at a few pertinent chords, I suddenly understand. Julian explains so easily, in only a few words, what has taken Philosophers centuries to express, about the mystery of life and death, and then he goes about and says the same thing without words, on his instrument, the Guitar. And then there is silence. Here he is, 4 years before his graduation into heaven, and he's still at it, still learning. An insatiable appetite for knowledge. Not to be inspired by Julian Bream, you have to be asleep. Thank you Julian.
"The pluck itself is the actual apex of the sound." - Julian Bream Just put it together with the piano and violin to understand it better, they only reach to touch the string. The piano for instance, what is that? hitting strings with little hammers? And the violin? Rubbing a string and making the sound with friction. It's weird. Although i like both instruments of course, in the guitar you pluck the string entirely, and the pluck of Julian Bream has something extraordinary, subtly extraordinary. And i don't know if this is a consequence of this but the guitar allows greater (for me) possibilities for conceptualizing the music, at least in those good hands, which are very very very few in this word, that's because it's the most difficult and complex instrument to make it ("really)" sing. But one minute of good guitar music sounds like an entire lifetime, no other instrument is able to evoke in such a way.
I am amazed by this guitar playing, because it sounds like some divine Arcadian music - Ancient Greek, Orphean. Yet, great violin music has been written (Bach, Pärt) as well as great piano music (Mozart, Beethoven). It simply takes virtuosity to understand the character of an instrument and making it sing instead of just humming, shouting, weeping. That in itself is rare because it takes many factors. I don't find Bach exceptional, nor do I find Mozart or Beethoven exceptional, but when they are, it is simply timeless. It would be ignorant for me to say this was the first time I am blown away by the sound of a guitar, but it DOES sound like what a guitar would sing if it were autonomous and I haven't heard that ever before in my life and I feel the same when it comes to Arvo Pärt and some of his violin compositions. It is timeless because the people involved understand it is not about them but the music and music is an allusion to eternity. If you want to have a feeling of what a digital instrument would sound like if it were autonomous, I suggest you check out Holly Herndon's work. She's been feeding an AI baby called Spawn and lets it perform live with a choir. Go and watch a performance if you can, cos it feels like the future.
I am a great fan, the way to play a lot of those large chords is using rh harmonics, it took me ages to work out how to play it and then no one wanted to listen
European music made a huge mistake when they abandoned the harpsichord, for the very reason you give. In the piano, one tries to mask the fact of death by pretending that by beating the string instead of plucking it that death is somehow fooled. The harpsichord accepts the death of the note and goes on making music anyway.
@@almishti Maybe it says alot about European cultures that replaced pluck instruments with pianos and blowers and much later went back to pluck instruments when their lives could be sustained and distorted, only to move on to computer love.
Nobody wants to listen to this garbage. Someone has to say it: Bream and his followers have not evolved in over half a century. He is still commissioning pretentious trash like this. At least it was something new in the 1950s or early '60s. Today it is just conservative and outdated. Music moved on. The guitar didn't. Thanks a lot, Julian!
I once saw an advert in a camping shop which read: Now is The Winter of our discounted Tents.
Julian Bream was a mystic. 5:55 "We hate death, and we don't know how to deal with it." Rest In Peace Mr Bream, I've dealt with death, and I know your spirit is most definitely eternal.
Julian Bream and Hans Henze - two absolutely brilliant musicians!
This is an exceptionally interesting document of a meeting between two excellent musicians. PS. There is nothing or nobody after Julian Bream, nothing like. He had the sound, musician's soul.
you prolly dont give a shit but does anybody know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account..?
I was stupid forgot my account password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me.
@Bishop Garrett Instablaster :)
@Mitchell Russell Thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm.
Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Mitchell Russell It did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy!
Thanks so much you really help me out !
@Bishop Garrett Happy to help :)
Julian Bream!!! One and only!!! :-)
I watched this programme on the BBC when it was first broadcast c1978?
I rarely watch the Beeb now...
The greatest classical work ever written in my opinion
Uh-ohhh...
wowza!
JB made a fun trip to those islands and might as well get the most the stay. Lets play badminton in between our music....ahhh perfect, reminds me of old musical comraderies of the past..
The THINGS this man says...It is as he said in another documentary "i'm a musician who happens to play the guitar". Alas if every musician could perceive music in such a candid way. "Look no further, my pupil. Thou must play legatto 'cause, as the master said, you must sustain the life at each note, until its necessary death." God bless
The Oberon sounds (((((¡¡¡¡¡¡AWESOME!!!!!!!))))
Grandissimi entrambi
el mejor único no hay mas que decir y si escucharlo a Julian
love it!!
AMAZING document! Thanks!
Is there any more footage?
3:15
Very nice! Why not add the year in which this film was made to the video description above?
I must admit, I have never been a great fan of the "12 Tone School". My limited musical knowledge prevents me from that experience perhaps. And yet, When I hear my inspiration, Julian Bream, "pluck" away at a few pertinent chords, I suddenly understand. Julian explains so easily, in only a few words, what has taken Philosophers centuries to express, about the mystery of life and death, and then he goes about and says the same thing without words, on his instrument, the Guitar. And then there is silence. Here he is, 4 years before his graduation into heaven, and he's still at it, still learning. An insatiable appetite for knowledge. Not to be inspired by Julian Bream, you have to be asleep. Thank you Julian.
I think this was filmed in the late 70s.
Браво!
"The pluck itself is the actual apex of the sound." - Julian Bream
Just put it together with the piano and violin to understand it better, they only reach to touch the string. The piano for instance, what is that? hitting strings with little hammers? And the violin? Rubbing a string and making the sound with friction. It's weird. Although i like both instruments of course, in the guitar you pluck the string entirely, and the pluck of Julian Bream has something extraordinary, subtly extraordinary. And i don't know if this is a consequence of this but the guitar allows greater (for me) possibilities for conceptualizing the music, at least in those good hands, which are very very very few in this word, that's because it's the most difficult and complex instrument to make it ("really)" sing. But one minute of good guitar music sounds like an entire lifetime, no other instrument is able to evoke in such a way.
I am amazed by this guitar playing, because it sounds like some divine Arcadian music - Ancient Greek, Orphean. Yet, great violin music has been written (Bach, Pärt) as well as great piano music (Mozart, Beethoven). It simply takes virtuosity to understand the character of an instrument and making it sing instead of just humming, shouting, weeping. That in itself is rare because it takes many factors. I don't find Bach exceptional, nor do I find Mozart or Beethoven exceptional, but when they are, it is simply timeless. It would be ignorant for me to say this was the first time I am blown away by the sound of a guitar, but it DOES sound like what a guitar would sing if it were autonomous and I haven't heard that ever before in my life and I feel the same when it comes to Arvo Pärt and some of his violin compositions. It is timeless because the people involved understand it is not about them but the music and music is an allusion to eternity.
If you want to have a feeling of what a digital instrument would sound like if it were autonomous, I suggest you check out Holly Herndon's work. She's been feeding an AI baby called Spawn and lets it perform live with a choir. Go and watch a performance if you can, cos it feels like the future.
Hi can you plase add the credits of the video? I would love to know from which doc/interview this clip was taken. Thanks!
"That chord is too much for me, unless i do it with my nose" hahah he would do it no matter what.
.. indeed...
Could you remove the programme please, as it's getting in the way of the adverts!
As for the Badminton: do not give up the day job.....
I am a great fan, the way to play a lot of those large chords is using rh harmonics, it took me ages to work out how to play it and then no one wanted to listen
You were playing to the wrong people : )
@@thebeatcreeper lol
Henze lived to age 86; Bream, to 87. Perhaps there’s something to badminton after all…
Is this clip part of adocumentary?
Probably.
The science of the plucked sound dictates that the hearer measures the quality of the heark...
...liberamente...
I wonder how it's like wearing like that playing badminton ..
NO NO NO...It is " Now is the winter of our discounted tents"
If you say so.
That's it. Plucking is the apex of the sound on the contrary to the piano. What is that? Hitting the strings with little hammers? bah..
European music made a huge mistake when they abandoned the harpsichord, for the very reason you give. In the piano, one tries to mask the fact of death by pretending that by beating the string instead of plucking it that death is somehow fooled. The harpsichord accepts the death of the note and goes on making music anyway.
@@almishti Maybe it says alot about European cultures that replaced pluck instruments with pianos and blowers and much later went back to pluck instruments when their lives could be sustained and distorted, only to move on to computer love.
As an enthusiastic amateur of 40yrs l find serial music inaccessible.
Ok Julian, shut up i wanna hear you play the guitar. I have enough hearing you once, but still i have not enough of this music.
Stravinsky didn't care about Bream at all .lol
Of course not,...he only cared about Stravinsky. Too late now.
Nobody wants to listen to this garbage. Someone has to say it: Bream and his followers have not evolved in over half a century. He is still commissioning pretentious trash like this. At least it was something new in the 1950s or early '60s. Today it is just conservative and outdated. Music moved on. The guitar didn't. Thanks a lot, Julian!
Gendry Pannacotti You don’t know what you are talking about
Sounds to me like you're a pretentious fuckwad.