Andres Segovia must be smiling in heaven . His dream of making the classical guitar a concert instrument has come to fruition via this phenomenal guitarist musician Memg Su . Her playing truly reveals why I love the classical guitar . Her variations of tone and harmonics makes this instrument unique and her playing is incredible. What tone and dynamics . Truly unique!
I am so impressed by how quickly she is able to focus and get into the zone. After playing the final chord of her first piece, she slowly lowers her hand to the bridge and then a moment later slightly turns her hand to palm mute the strings. That is the moment the guitar stops singing and the piece is finished. All pieces are amazingly performed. Bravo!
Beautiful woman, superb guitarist, great artist, every day you are better. I love you and your art. Go ahead please. You are a gift for the music world. From Cancún , México , ❤ .
Great sounding master performance. The instrument is well recorded. It must be of 1st quality also. To hear the acoustics from this kind of acoustic instrument is very, very satisfying.
Absolutely entrancing - thank you Meng Su for sharing your amazing talent. Loved the whole programme - the piece by the Chinese composer was amazing. 🎶🎶
Cinco Piezas by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) 1:55 I. Campero 6:22 II. Romantico 10:42 III. Acentuado 15:55 Three Pieces for Guitar by Marc Neikrug (b. 1946) I. Quasi una Cadenza. II. Romanza III. Toccata 24:34 Seven Desires by Tan Dun (b.1957) Five Bagatelles by William Walton (1902-1983) 36:53 I. Allegro assai 40:53 II. Lento 43:57 III. Alla cubana 46:21 IV. Sempre expressivo 48:12 V. Presto con slancia
total pleasure to listen to you play. I hear so many amazing "technicians" these days on the guitar scene its mind boggling. The difference in your playing is that your technique is a means to an end...interpreting and shaping music. In particular...your performance of the Walton is the best on the planet. stunning and insightful. Walton would have been so happy to hear you interpret his pieces the way he must have envisioned them. Thank you for your dedication to the music.
OMG, this definitely is one of the top classic concerts I've ever watched. The selection is flawless, to me a bit surprisingly out of my usual listening guitar pieces but each one of them from starting to end it drives my thurst to listen the next note, and the interpretation of Meng Su never failed to deliver. This is really magical. I am pretty sure I will be watching this over and over again.
@@AWMail-uw3hb Ahah nice! The shoes and everything, she exudes pure badass-ness! (If that’s a word). What a sensational experience that must have been.
Tive a satisfação de ver Meng Su tocando quando ainda era muito jovenzinha. Já tocava muito. Agora cresceu e já esta preparada para fazer décadas de sucesso. Muito talento.
Esecuzione perfetta, senza sbavature. Ma un concerto difficile, coraggioso, molta tecnica e poca resa. Su Meng è una delle più grandi chitarriste di tutti i tempi.
It amazes me, that these top players can use guitars with such high actions. I can only vaguely play Classical ..with a 2.5mm action (at the 12th fret) or below. Meng Su's guitar looks to be 4mm+ (judging by the string movement when they are pressed by the left hand). The accuracy, strength and stamina needed are something else.
It’s tricky to tell. First of all, the repertoire selection and her playing is so badass with such a command of tone and the instrument it’s giving me a mind numbing sensation. Whoa! Going by what I see to be a fairly ‘level (parallel with the top) bridge saddle height as in the bass and treble height from the the top is not compensated by raising the bass side like many classical guitars. That leads me to suspect potentially the fingerboard is planed slightly at a ‘skewed’ angle as it reaches the top frets. This would give the illusion of slightly higher action. It allows more clearance on bass side where the strings need the room for fullest volume headroom. My 74 Ramirez 1a has this type of design setup. And another element to having an equal parallel height bridge saddle, it’s said this allows for a more even tension across the bridge which I’m not sure that significant. I could be entirely mistaken as well.
@@audimaster5000 interesting, I didn't know much about the compensation thing (higher up the neck). Also, it was places like 4:38 - look at the third fret index finger bar, that amount of string deviation, for me, hints at a high nut action too. Though I guess she could compensate by having a thinner gauge of string (I usually play Heavy/high tension). Amazing playing :)
@@RevoltingRudi It is common/natural to think 3mm is low on classical (4mm being 'standard'). But lower actions were always 'sort after' , just less common. Fret dressing was less accurate (as was fret wire consistence of manufacture). I've seen old classicals with lower than 2mm actions. They are rare, as is getting an example that doesn't fret buzz somewhere :) Also, fret dressing (under string tension - allows more accurate fret levelling) was a dark art ..until more recent times ;) Neck angle, can also be an issue with low actions (i.e. original manufacture can sometimes stifle creating low actions). I'd say 2.5mm (bass and treble - 12th fret) is a perfect action for a Classical in the modern world. It relieves the fretting hand and still (with a little modification) all right hand techniques are still possible (imo). And, if the fret work is done well, it will not buzz. Only thing you may need to do, with a low action, is stop wrapping the strings around the bridge. And instead, use some version of 'string beads'. This creates a better string break angle at the saddle (if the saddle is very low). This not only improves string tension (less 'floppy' at a low action) but also adds some sustain+tone (probably, as the more acute string break angle causes the string to press harder against the saddle ..transferring more vibration) fyi - look into the PLEK fret dressing system. This is based on fret dressing while under string tension. But, done with a computer and a specialised vertical milling machine. This allows things like; different fret heights at different areas of the board ..to compensate for how the strings resonate above the frets (we're talking 10ths, 100ths or 1000ths of a millimetre :) Peace.
°○°один русский комментарий и такое странное содержание. Если Вы считаете что играете лучше то на самом деле удивительно что на концерте играете не Вы😅😬
Les canaux du four s'arrêtent à l'heure La fin de matinée était toute cuite Le silence que je jouais sous l'arbre en fleurs est mûr Le temps où le monde couvert de farine gonfle comme un mensonge Le facteur ouvre la boîte aux lettres chauffée sortir une lettre chaude La lettre que vous avez mise il y a 30 minutes est déjà mûre ! Avant même d'avoir lu la moitié de ma vie j'ai encore mûri ,
I had the honor of attending two of her masterclasses at UMBC. Amazing guitarist, with the best tone I've ever heard live.
Andres Segovia must be smiling in heaven . His dream of making the classical guitar a concert instrument has come to fruition via this phenomenal guitarist musician Memg Su . Her playing truly reveals why I love the classical guitar . Her variations of tone and harmonics makes this instrument unique and her playing is incredible. What tone and dynamics . Truly unique!
As an academic guitarist she is unique!!!👋👋👋👋👋
If not her, then who!?
I agree that Segovia is smiling in heaven!!!
Bravissimo!!!🌺🌹❤️
Eine wunderbare Gitarristin, gratuliere ich Ihnen sehr geehrte Frau Meng Su
I am so impressed by how quickly she is able to focus and get into the zone. After playing the final chord of her first piece, she slowly lowers her hand to the bridge and then a moment later slightly turns her hand to palm mute the strings. That is the moment the guitar stops singing and the piece is finished. All pieces are amazingly performed. Bravo!
Mastery only comes with talent , skills and beauty, congratulations. Outstanding.
and a lot of hard work.
Unrivaled dynamics: so much power and intensity of sound, with such sensitive variation.
A terrific programme and an extraordinary performance....delivering such fine details, colours, shades and nuances...
Each note of the guitar is clear and deep. Very nice and good.
Beautiful woman, superb guitarist, great artist, every day you are better. I love you and your art. Go ahead please. You are a gift for the music world. From Cancún , México , ❤ .
Thank you, Meng Su for this excellent concert!!!
Brilliant. So clean with just the right. balance between technique and musicality. Loved the Toccata and the best Walton I ever heard.
Great concert !! Wonderful sounding guitar and beautiful playing 🙂👏👏 Thank you for sharing 🎵
HOT on & from all sides !! THX Omni !! Thank YOU Meng Su !!
Oh, btw. COOL shoes X Looks shArp on YOU !!
Glorious tone, strong but sweet, beautiful performance!!
Bravissimo……..Brilliant👏👏👏and Dammann👈😍
Looking forward!
Great sounding master performance. The instrument is well recorded. It must be of 1st quality also. To hear the acoustics from this kind of acoustic instrument is very, very satisfying.
Great concert, great artist. Great applause!
Absolutely entrancing - thank you Meng Su for sharing your amazing talent. Loved the whole programme - the piece by the Chinese composer was amazing. 🎶🎶
Wow, such an outstanding artist!!!! Thank you for the upload
Thank you for watching!
how can someone not like this? amazing performance!! so nice to be able to see your concert Meng Su!!
Impressive! Very nice guitarrist, I am glad to know her!
Cinco Piezas
by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
1:55 I. Campero
6:22 II. Romantico
10:42 III. Acentuado
15:55 Three Pieces for Guitar
by Marc Neikrug (b. 1946)
I. Quasi una Cadenza.
II. Romanza
III. Toccata
24:34 Seven Desires
by Tan Dun (b.1957)
Five Bagatelles
by William Walton (1902-1983)
36:53 I. Allegro assai
40:53 II. Lento
43:57 III. Alla cubana
46:21 IV. Sempre expressivo
48:12 V. Presto con slancia
Very nice performance from a guitar master. Thanks..
Meng Su is awesome and tranquil.
Very nice. Thanks for the upload.
Although this concert music was not my listening style, but I really appreciate your technic and nuance as well. You are a super giant artist
And the Encore: sUper sweet! THX again!
Melodías preciosas y habilidad extraordinaria del ejecutante. Arte y sentimiento
total pleasure to listen to you play. I hear so many amazing "technicians" these days on the guitar scene its mind boggling. The difference in your playing is that your technique is a means to an end...interpreting and shaping music. In particular...your performance of the Walton is the best on the planet. stunning and insightful. Walton would have been so happy to hear you interpret his pieces the way he must have envisioned them. Thank you for your dedication to the music.
Thank you for this top-class performance!
SPECTACULAR..as always!
OMG, this definitely is one of the top classic concerts I've ever watched. The selection is flawless, to me a bit surprisingly out of my usual listening guitar pieces but each one of them from starting to end it drives my thurst to listen the next note, and the interpretation of Meng Su never failed to deliver. This is really magical. I am pretty sure I will be watching this over and over again.
Brilliant!
Beautiful, superb.
Wow, that Walton 'Lento' is marvelous!
Great acting! Great guitar!
Beautiful performanse
lol @22:24 when she casually changes the page on the ipad. amazing performance!
Haha! I'm a student and when she did that all the guitarists in the audience looked at each other.
@@AWMail-uw3hb Ahah nice! The shoes and everything, she exudes pure badass-ness! (If that’s a word). What a sensational experience that must have been.
Great performance!!! and really happy you came to teach in SFCM! I still watch videos of your playing from 20+ years ago.
Bravo
Gran concertista Meng Su!! 😉
So impressive.
Guitar perfection!!!
Muchas gracias, Meng Su. Saludos desde España.
BRILLANTE, BRILLANTE!!
superb
Beautiful and exquisite!
Would love to hear an album (or see a concert) with Meng and Yuja Wang together!
I like his versatile style.
Damn. Such great performance.
Tive a satisfação de ver Meng Su tocando quando ainda era muito jovenzinha. Já tocava muito. Agora cresceu e já esta preparada para fazer décadas de sucesso. Muito talento.
ela ja veio no brasil onde vc viu
Sonido demoledor!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!! 😉
Love your playing! You’re incredible!
You remind me so much and sound like the great Julian Bream!
Perfect!
Bravo 👏👏👏👏x
Whoever made that guitar will be very pleased to hear it has such a lovely voice.
This man is amazing.
Huh? That's a woman
@@GustavoRamirez-zs9qc Sorry, i didn't see the shoes.
@@musicproductioncentral4540 or hear her voice at 15:00
The 1st is piazzolla's,I love it
Espetacular !!!
Esecuzione perfetta, senza sbavature. Ma un concerto difficile, coraggioso, molta tecnica e poca resa. Su Meng è una delle più grandi chitarriste di tutti i tempi.
واااو فخامة ❤❤❤❤❤
Ваша игра восхитительна. Пока слушаю Пьяццолу.
cool
It amazes me, that these top players can use guitars with such high actions.
I can only vaguely play Classical ..with a 2.5mm action (at the 12th fret) or below.
Meng Su's guitar looks to be 4mm+ (judging by the string movement when they are pressed by the left hand).
The accuracy, strength and stamina needed are something else.
It’s tricky to tell. First of all, the repertoire selection and her playing is so badass with such a command of tone and the instrument it’s giving me a mind numbing sensation. Whoa!
Going by what I see to be a fairly ‘level (parallel with the top) bridge saddle height as in the bass and treble height from the the top is not compensated by raising the bass side like many classical guitars.
That leads me to suspect potentially the fingerboard is planed slightly at a ‘skewed’ angle as it reaches the top frets.
This would give the illusion of slightly higher action. It allows more clearance on bass side where the strings need the room for fullest volume headroom.
My 74 Ramirez 1a has this type of design setup. And another element to having an equal parallel height bridge saddle, it’s said this allows for a more even tension across the bridge which I’m not sure that significant.
I could be entirely mistaken as well.
@@audimaster5000 interesting, I didn't know much about the compensation thing (higher up the neck).
Also, it was places like 4:38 - look at the third fret index finger bar, that amount of string deviation, for me, hints at a high nut action too. Though I guess she could compensate by having a thinner gauge of string (I usually play Heavy/high tension). Amazing playing :)
if not mistaken 4mm action is quite standard with classical guitars and only the electrics have like 2.5mm. maybe flamenco is lower than 4mm too.
@@RevoltingRudi It is common/natural to think 3mm is low on classical (4mm being 'standard'). But lower actions were always 'sort after' , just less common. Fret dressing was less accurate (as was fret wire consistence of manufacture). I've seen old classicals with lower than 2mm actions. They are rare, as is getting an example that doesn't fret buzz somewhere :) Also, fret dressing (under string tension - allows more accurate fret levelling) was a dark art ..until more recent times ;) Neck angle, can also be an issue with low actions (i.e. original manufacture can sometimes stifle creating low actions).
I'd say 2.5mm (bass and treble - 12th fret) is a perfect action for a Classical in the modern world. It relieves the fretting hand and still (with a little modification) all right hand techniques are still possible (imo). And, if the fret work is done well, it will not buzz.
Only thing you may need to do, with a low action, is stop wrapping the strings around the bridge. And instead, use some version of 'string beads'. This creates a better string break angle at the saddle (if the saddle is very low). This not only improves string tension (less 'floppy' at a low action) but also adds some sustain+tone (probably, as the more acute string break angle causes the string to press harder against the saddle ..transferring more vibration)
fyi - look into the PLEK fret dressing system. This is based on fret dressing while under string tension. But, done with a computer and a specialised vertical milling machine. This allows things like; different fret heights at different areas of the board ..to compensate for how the strings resonate above the frets (we're talking 10ths, 100ths or 1000ths of a millimetre :)
Peace.
Qui est le luthier de cette sublime guitare ? ♥️🎵🎶🎵
.. brawo...!!!!
wow! ... great to find out about Meng Su ... now need to look up for more ... does anyone know what guitar she is using?
Yes, she is using a guitar built by the German luthier, Matthias Dammann. Thanks for watching!
🤩🤩
Where is her right leg
Mattias Dammann guitar?
What have you done to the house of my Father ?
Silly remark. Does this look like a den of thieves, huh? 🙂
Mi sa molto di Barrueco...
O. Comentário. E. Que este. Compositor. E. Astor piazola
intensiv
много лет учиться. овладеть прекрасной техникой, чтобы играть подобную байду - ужоссс ,
я таких "концертов" на коленке десятки напишу
°○°один русский комментарий и такое странное содержание. Если Вы считаете что играете лучше то на самом деле удивительно что на концерте играете не Вы😅😬
and she ha nice hair. Sorry Im nevar sited. 😂
만수야~~~ 집에 가자~~~~~~~
Does he have one fabulous shoe and one regular shoe or is it just me?
'It' ...
Les canaux du four s'arrêtent à l'heure
La fin de matinée était toute cuite
Le silence que je jouais sous l'arbre en fleurs est mûr
Le temps où le monde couvert de farine gonfle comme un mensonge
Le facteur ouvre la boîte aux lettres chauffée
sortir une lettre chaude
La lettre que vous avez mise il y a 30 minutes est déjà mûre !
Avant même d'avoir lu la moitié de ma vie
j'ai encore mûri
,
🤯😜🤪😳
Oh nooo 😅 I watched the half of the performance skipping applauses and just realised that the performer is a woman when I heard her voice
All is right,but....masks,masks,masks,,where is freedom ? Art is freedom is not it?
Two different cultures ,,Chinese only making a good copy
若是不看鞋子，你能知道是男女吗？为什么艺术家男的像女的，女的像男的？
人家不过是打扮得比较中性一点。
我认为苏萌老师有魅力也帅气。请您尊重。
@@TengyueZhang 我只是说事实和我的感觉，我有不尊重了吗？你的意思是男的打扮的像女的，女的打扮的像男的是不可以吗？为什么我这样说是不尊重了？差不多二十年前我就现场听过苏萌的音乐会，但这我以为是个男的，我是真的没有认出来是苏萌，有问题吗？
听音乐就听音乐 对别人的打扮外貌评头论足就是不礼貌不尊重...你这话会对别人当面说吗？
@@flynntib 差不多我二十年前就见过你妈，但我以为她是男的，我是真没有认出来她是女人。我只是说事实和我的感觉，我有不尊重了吗？你的意思是男的打扮像女的，女的打扮像男的是 不可以吗？为什么我这样说是不尊重了？
有问题吗？
I didnt feel the her playin in music, no passion in those pieces, only technicaly
Bravo, muito expressiva!