Listening to Julian Bream has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life, I'm in awe of such excellence and his ability to get such incredible tone from the instrument.
Oh yes the Master. Julian is a wonderful exponent of the Classical Guitar. Happy Birthday to you. On the 15th July. I wish you all the Best and many more happy ones. The Classical Guitar Society of N Ireland
I start listening classical guitar with Segovia, then start reading about the grand composers. Tarrega, Albeniz, Sor, Barrios Mangore and of course, Villa-lobos and his preludes played by Bream and cried, what a great performer, such passion and sadness, he makes love with the guitar. Amazing.
Well you only stayed away from the real masters of guitar: giuliani carulli legnani. Tney were the first and only real composers of chitarra. Of course sor too.
This is my favorite piece by my favorite guitarist. I wish the spell would be fully projected by posting the rest of this one. I very much appreciate this posting, and much thanks to venusandmars. I in no way mean to be critical, but my personal preference would be to be able (if possible) to watch Bream play all the way through; with all musical presentations I prefer this option to any video.
Here is one of the worlds great guitarist. Showing us his life's work. And they show me planting fields and roads and houses... Let me watch a master finger his guitar and whoever is doing the intro voice over needs to be told shut up... This man Julian Bream is just too good a artist for that Mickey Mouse stuff... Let me watch and listen to him play...
I'm not so sure that he is the best but, certainly, is one of the most accomplished and brilliant guitarists of the period. His skills and profoundness define me, give me a bit of sense and meaning of my existence...
I love the feeling that Julian puts into his music and for me it Like Janis Joplin when she "Feels" her music. I know many will disagree and i'm not comparing Rock to Classical but like I said Julian Feels his music. I think its insane to bash someone for their interpretation of a musical piece because lets face it we are ALL different...:)
I remember, back in the days when TV was all we had, programmes that featured such excellent musicians as Julian Bream were few and far between, yet, instead of being treated to the performance, we were forced to endure banal clips of scenery, and so on, while we ground our teeth to a pulp hoping that the maestro would soon reappear. I wrest my quase.
I am sure it is acoustics at fault. I dare not venture that Mr Bream is playing a guitar incapable of the tone you suggest. If he his, I should like to purchase it at a knock down price!!
thank you. I grew up listening to the golden age of elizabethan lute...His playing is perfect in every way....sounds like he's writing it as he plays it. timing, ornamentation, everything...he changed my life. God bless Julian.
Genius!!! I've played classical guitar since 16. I'm now 49 and even now every time I play a piece like this I have breams tone and phrasing in my head. Williams is technically better but breams feeling and musicality have never been matched IMO.
@williamduranti Yes in fact to most people he would be the most 'expressive'(romantic we should say) guitarist because he plays in that Romantic style. While others like Pepe Romero would be more of a Spanish Flamenco style. Williams plays in a more traditional and conservative style and always takes the composers' purpose as the highest instead of individual interpretations. Russell is quiet traditional as well similar to Williams but still slightly different. CDs show everyone is different.
i agree with other contributor regarding commentary during the playing of this piece by julian bream.Full marks as usual to julian for great interpretation of the piece.The guitar comes over a little light in my opinion but could be perhaps due to accoustics.I think a guitar with a little more body within the wood would enhance the piece even more, especially at the bass end thus creating more even balance between its bass and treble register.(solely my opinion) bilstew.
@Pitcairn2 Yes of course....after all this man is on a pedestal but maybe not yet .Did you read my comments carefully especially about the values of the instrument.???...To hear a well balanced guitar on youtube type in John Feeley...Bach Chaconne in D minor .....incomparable...
Thanks for sticking up for Americans, honestly i hear a lot about "American arrogance" but coming on these forums or however you want to define them, I see a lot of smug obnoxious Europeans always, always, insulting Americans, give me a break its classless.
I think it has to do with their personalities. Bream is an emotional, expressive and theatrical person whereas Williams always appears much more reserved and restrained.
I think I would agree with Pitcairn2 that Julian Bream is the greatest guitarist of the 20th century, but I'm amazed at his left hand posture. It looks horrible. His fingers are seldom perpendicular to the fingerboard. How does he manage to avoid accidental muting of adjacent strings?
Indeed. Bream is like like a colorized version of John Williams. They are both technically flawess, but Bream's playing seems so much more expresssive and rich with tonal variety.
oldwhtman That is because Juliam Bream can show a much higher of emotion with the guitar, meaning he is a superior player when you compare both playing the same piece of music.
Yes i agree. Bream brings an emotional depth that Williams cannot - Williams is technically perfect...and perhaps that has clouded, in my view, his ability to release and even phrase with power and emotion....
The intrusive voice-over is I think probably Christopher Nupen of Allegro Films, the company that made many documentaries about music for British TV quite a while back. Considered innovative then, Allegro films now sound tired, cliched and patronising with their over-gushing, sycophantic productions about great musicians which do those musicians poor service by being obsequious rather than enquiring into the real person they are featuring. Having said that, I'm glad the footages are still available, and if you switch off the irritating commentary there are some great clips of the wonderful Bream, du Pre, Milstein and others.
the voice over is by Lyndon Brook a great actor from the 50· and 60's television.I have the DVD.Bream's voice is immediately recogniseable by its' south London accent.No public schoolboy he,but a child prodigy.Like Callas he will never be matched
@@colletteglennon939 OK I stand corrected about the voice over but the film direction IS by Christopher Nupen. I am grateful that he documented and shot a lot of video footage of Bream, but I find nearly all of his films would have been better in other hands, because Nupen is a serial imposer of his own scripts on what should be a wonderfully interference-free footage of Bream's fantastic playing. By all means show clips of the Spanish countryside in between performances, but Nupen was in the habit of imposing his own EGO on top of Bream's wonderful talent.
as lot of working hoiurs are behind this sir. When you spend few hours a day you see qhta you have to be really dedicated and work at least 8 or 10 hour a day and very well programmed to reach su a level, besides the talent. Great inspiration, dedicatiion and love for the instrument.
always wondered why Bream did not play this on the Lacote 1820 Guitar from the period, as he did with the baroque guitar and the vihuela. as much as i love this i think it would have been great to see /hear
i dont even think hes technically better, he learns the notes and is happy with it, his tone is perfect but when bream learns a piece he plays it like williams and then messes it up for the art. Learn the rules before breaking them
Yup, I always thought Yngwie was boring. Great technically I suppose, but he just leaves me cold somehow. It reminds me of a really obscure line from a song: "Just tell me where you learnt to rock n roll; you got your licks, but you forgot your soul; you play real hot, but son you leave me cold; so why ya wanna waste your time?"
@Pitcairn2 could not agree with you more and there are so many incredible guitarists but he is mindblowing where expression and interpretation are concerned. Words fail me when he plays.
Such a great musician, and a wonderful rendering of this classic repertoire cornerstone... But what else makes Julian Bream so extraordinary? His fantastic collection of retro suits and shirts, of course.
What a wonderful thing UA-cam is! I first heard this piece performed by Segovia. I was twelve years old. The year was 1954. I couldn't understand or believe that so much beauty could come from one instrument. Now, through UA-cam and its generous contributors, twelve year old children around the world can see, hear, and believe.
Sorry, why compare Williams to Bream? Check out the numerous videos of them playing together to compare and contrast. They enjoyed the cameraderie. OK, well, I guess I have my favorite too (Bream). Django too. The passion is on the sleeve.
Yes, Bream in person is such a gentleman in the classic sense, while Segovia seemed to be rather a curmudgeon. And Bream's hands are so beautiful, while Segovia had short pudgy fingers. I wondered how he could play so beautifully with such hands. I heard them both in concert and crowded around with all the other fans to see them up close, and hear their voices. Bream was so suave yet approachable and took time to actually hear and respond to his fans, and Segovia was rather distant and brusque. That was such a wonderful time, when the professional concert level guitarists were so few and every recording was bringing to life again music seldom heard for a century and more. Bream was the best, and to my mind, the pinnacle in all ways, on and off the stage. I would chop wood and carry water for that man.
Great....! I enjoy listen to that beautiful music performed by such a great guitarrist...!! thank you... I would like to know the country of this marvellous guitarrist, please.
He was my greatest inspiration when I at that time played classical guitar; and much more so than Segovia....clearer tune I feel....but I left that hard work that classical guitar is; and instead intertwined it to pieces of acoustic playing and compositions... ed w w w eddy nu
+Пётр Пруцаков no man, the musician plays with its own hands something that cant be told otherwise but with experience, so the devastation we feel when he plays that, can be represented by true tangible things, like the rutinary long days of work that this man has
Julian Bream is the god of string plucked instruments.
No one's cut him yet...
Listening to Julian Bream has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life, I'm in awe of such excellence and his ability to get such incredible tone from the instrument.
the GREATEST guitarist of all in interpretation
his colour & expression is BY FAR UNCOMPARABLE
thanks for posting
Oh yes the Master. Julian is a wonderful exponent of the Classical Guitar. Happy Birthday to you. On the 15th July. I wish you all the Best and many more happy ones. The Classical Guitar Society of N Ireland
Bream is the best of all times!!
wrong again Skelator!
Indudable!
Indiscutible!
No
Julian mastered the impossible, actually being at one with each note he plays.
I remember watching Guitarra on the TV around 1984 . Bream opened up a lot of Classical Guitar music that I was unaware of ...Thank You!
this is the best version i can find of this tune...everybody else seems to suck at it, but Bream really brings it to life.
I start listening classical guitar with Segovia, then start reading about the grand composers. Tarrega, Albeniz, Sor, Barrios Mangore and of course, Villa-lobos and his preludes played by Bream and cried, what a great performer, such passion and sadness, he makes love with the guitar. Amazing.
Max Reyes Subiabre
Well you only stayed away from the real masters of guitar: giuliani carulli legnani. Tney were the first and only real composers of chitarra. Of course sor too.
The embellishments that Julian Bream puts in the Gran Solo are absolutely brilliant. Reading the score along we can see all the Bream's criativity.
This is my favorite piece by my favorite guitarist. I wish the spell would be fully projected by posting the rest of this one. I very much appreciate this posting, and much thanks to venusandmars. I in no way mean to be critical, but my personal preference would be to be able (if possible) to watch Bream play all the way through; with all musical presentations I prefer this option to any video.
By far, the best interpretation of this that i've ever come across .
whoever wrote this is a genius...the performance suits the greatness of the piece...really nice... : )
I agree. Bravo Maestro Bream. He interprets music beautifully compared to all others.
Here is one of the worlds great guitarist. Showing us his life's work. And they show me planting fields and roads and houses... Let me watch a master finger his guitar and whoever is doing the intro voice over needs to be told shut up... This man Julian Bream is just too good a artist for that Mickey Mouse stuff... Let me watch and listen to him play...
Legend,a true master of his insturment.
I'm not so sure that he is the best but, certainly, is one of the most accomplished and brilliant guitarists of the period. His skills and profoundness define me, give me a bit of sense and meaning of my existence...
Grande entre los grandes, Bream insuperable.
I love the feeling that Julian puts into his music and for me it Like Janis Joplin when she "Feels" her music. I know many will disagree and i'm not comparing Rock to Classical but like I said Julian Feels his music. I think its insane to bash someone for their interpretation of a musical piece because lets face it we are ALL different...:)
How anybody who was interested in classical guitar could not have heard of Julian Bream just doesn't make sense. Bream is one of the best ever!
and me- he;s absolute genius and has such a great feel and sound
It shouldn't matter or be a question if it is not an issue for him. He just does.
joder que bonito
que control del color del sonido
Best rendition of this piece to date
nobody can play like him, for me Bream is the best
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+Bledar Cela I think so too
Totalmente de acuerdo!
How could anyone dislike this? Seriously how?
Brain dead?
A head and shoulders above others.
I remember, back in the days when TV was all we had, programmes that featured such excellent musicians as Julian Bream were few and far between, yet, instead of being treated to the performance, we were forced to endure banal clips of scenery, and so on, while we ground our teeth to a pulp hoping that the maestro would soon reappear. I wrest my quase.
Im still listening till now. 2019 april..anyone
I am sure it is acoustics at fault.
I dare not venture that Mr Bream is playing a guitar incapable of the tone you suggest.
If he his, I should like to purchase it at a knock down price!!
his elegance makes him look even better
thank you. I grew up listening to the golden age of elizabethan lute...His playing is perfect in every way....sounds like he's writing it as he plays it. timing, ornamentation, everything...he changed my life. God bless Julian.
Genius!!! I've played classical guitar since 16. I'm now 49 and even now every time I play a piece like this I have breams tone and phrasing in my head. Williams is technically better but breams feeling and musicality have never been matched IMO.
@williamduranti Yes in fact to most people he would be the most 'expressive'(romantic we should say) guitarist because he plays in that Romantic style. While others like Pepe Romero would be more of a Spanish Flamenco style. Williams plays in a more traditional and conservative style and always takes the composers' purpose as the highest instead of individual interpretations. Russell is quiet traditional as well similar to Williams but still slightly different. CDs show everyone is different.
i agree with other contributor regarding commentary during the playing of this piece by julian bream.Full marks as usual to julian for great interpretation of the piece.The guitar comes over a little light in my opinion but could be perhaps due to accoustics.I think a guitar with a little more body within the wood would enhance the piece even more, especially at the bass end thus creating more even balance between its bass and treble register.(solely my opinion) bilstew.
@Pitcairn2 Yes of course....after all this man is on a pedestal but maybe not yet .Did you read my comments carefully especially about the values of the instrument.???...To hear a well balanced guitar on youtube type in John Feeley...Bach Chaconne in D minor .....incomparable...
Shit, this guy makes Yngwie look like one of those 15-year-old shred-heads at Guitar Center.
Thanks for sticking up for Americans, honestly i hear a lot about "American arrogance" but coming on these forums or however you want to define them, I see a lot of smug obnoxious Europeans always, always, insulting Americans, give me a break its classless.
I think it has to do with their personalities. Bream is an emotional, expressive and theatrical person whereas Williams always appears much more reserved and restrained.
Favorite classical guitarist...simply the best!
hey dudes,
lets not argue over which country is better at guitar and just chill to the playing of bream ok?
Not enough of Bream and too much film footage of Uncle Pablo's Spanish vacation.
..I am every bit as good as he was...I can play this with my eyes shut...
Why do i watch rocks and wrecks instead of his charming hands.. dislike
I think I would agree with Pitcairn2 that Julian Bream is the greatest guitarist of the 20th century, but I'm amazed at his left hand posture. It looks horrible. His fingers are seldom perpendicular to the fingerboard. How does he manage to avoid accidental muting of adjacent strings?
Indeed. Bream is like like a colorized version of John Williams. They are both technically flawess, but Bream's playing seems so much more expresssive and rich with tonal variety.
oldwhtman That is because Juliam Bream can show a much higher of emotion with the guitar, meaning he is a superior player when you compare both playing the same piece of music.
Perfect! No wonder Bream looks so pleased towards the end of that.
amazing...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bream and Segovia have their own and special sound
5 stars , straordinario, meraviglioso
Great upload!
Thumbs UP
This is magic, thank you Julian.
I wanted to see him play, not the countryside!
sorry,pressed the wrong button!of course I agree totally.
Yes i agree. Bream brings an emotional depth that Williams cannot - Williams is technically perfect...and perhaps that has clouded, in my view, his ability to release and even phrase with power and emotion....
The intrusive voice-over is I think probably Christopher Nupen of Allegro Films, the company that made many documentaries about music for British TV quite a while back. Considered innovative then, Allegro films now sound tired, cliched and patronising with their over-gushing, sycophantic productions about great musicians which do those musicians poor service by being obsequious rather than enquiring into the real person they are featuring. Having said that, I'm glad the footages are still available, and if you switch off the irritating commentary there are some great clips of the wonderful Bream, du Pre, Milstein and others.
the voice over is by Lyndon Brook a great actor from the 50· and 60's television.I have the DVD.Bream's voice is immediately recogniseable by its' south London accent.No public schoolboy he,but a child prodigy.Like Callas he will never be matched
@@colletteglennon939 OK I stand corrected about the voice over but the film direction IS by Christopher Nupen. I am grateful that he documented and shot a lot of video footage of Bream, but I find nearly all of his films would have been better in other hands, because Nupen is a serial imposer of his own scripts on what should be a wonderfully interference-free footage of Bream's fantastic playing. By all means show clips of the Spanish countryside in between performances, but Nupen was in the habit of imposing his own EGO on top of Bream's wonderful talent.
Bream's pretty much it for me, too.
Bellísima melodía de Fernando Sor.
Bream is the second best guitarist next to God.
UA-cam is the grandest media since Gutenberg
as lot of working hoiurs are behind this sir. When you spend few hours a day you see qhta you have to be really dedicated and work at least 8 or 10 hour a day and very well programmed to reach su a level, besides the talent. Great inspiration, dedicatiion and love for the instrument.
💞💟😉🥀🌲
always wondered why Bream did not play this on the Lacote 1820 Guitar from the period, as he did with the baroque guitar and the vihuela. as much as i love this i think it would have been great to see /hear
hope in human kind: restored
Ní féidir le duine ar bith eile an píosa seo a seinm cosúil le Julian Bream
i dont even think hes technically better, he learns the notes and is happy with it, his tone is perfect but when bream learns a piece he plays it like williams and then messes it up for the art. Learn the rules before breaking them
Virtuosity.
I don't know what you mean by jocking. I just want you to see another very talented guitar player play a beautiful song.
Yup, I always thought Yngwie was boring. Great technically I suppose, but he just leaves me cold somehow.
It reminds me of a really obscure line from a song: "Just tell me where you learnt to rock n roll; you got your licks, but you forgot your soul;
you play real hot, but son you leave me cold; so why ya wanna waste your time?"
@Pitcairn2 could not agree with you more and there are so many incredible guitarists but he is mindblowing where expression and interpretation are concerned. Words fail me when he plays.
Such a great musician, and a wonderful rendering of this classic repertoire cornerstone... But what else makes Julian Bream so extraordinary? His fantastic collection of retro suits and shirts, of course.
Nobody plays Sor better than Bream.
What a wonderful thing UA-cam is! I first heard this piece performed by Segovia. I was twelve years old. The year was 1954. I couldn't understand or believe that so much beauty could come from one instrument. Now, through UA-cam and its generous contributors, twelve year old children around the world can see, hear, and believe.
Sorry, why compare Williams to Bream? Check out the numerous videos of them playing together to compare and contrast. They enjoyed the cameraderie.
OK, well, I guess I have my favorite too (Bream). Django too. The passion is on the sleeve.
Bream is a nicer guy than segovia, hewas a scary old git
Yes, Bream in person is such a gentleman in the classic sense, while Segovia seemed to be rather a curmudgeon. And Bream's hands are so beautiful, while Segovia had short pudgy fingers. I wondered how he could play so beautifully with such hands. I heard them both in concert and crowded around with all the other fans to see them up close, and hear their voices. Bream was so suave yet approachable and took time to actually hear and respond to his fans, and Segovia was rather distant and brusque. That was such a wonderful time, when the professional concert level guitarists were so few and every recording was bringing to life again music seldom heard for a century and more. Bream was the best, and to my mind, the pinnacle in all ways, on and off the stage. I would chop wood and carry water for that man.
Great....! I enjoy listen to that beautiful music performed by such a great guitarrist...!! thank you...
I would like to know the country of this marvellous guitarrist, please.
All this time I was a fan of Christopher Parkening and didn't know about Julian Bream?! Thank you VenusandMars and the internet...
bream's my man
Whats the first song called
I would not compare him and Segovia.
Segovia is incomparable, as is Breams.
Super Master... nuff said!
He was my greatest inspiration when I at that time played classical guitar; and much more so than Segovia....clearer tune I feel....but I left that hard work that classical guitar is; and instead intertwined it to pieces of acoustic playing and compositions...
ed
w w w eddy nu
Interpretação magistral do "Grand Solo" de Fernando Sor! Bravíssimo Julian Bream!!!
He sounds great!
I like this now on early romantic guitar but Bream certainly helped my musical development as a youth.
Probably Hermann Hauser.
Are you crazy, how you dare to compare the mastery of Bream with this Grabriel...
a toast...
to Bream
Great playing Julian although he did not play the full song...
this is inspiring.
synesthetic rainbows at fractal complicity
He makes some interesting adjustments to the score, a mixture of Sor, Aguado and Bream.
what about Yepes?
Muy bien interpretado, pero no terminó la pieza... ¿Por qué no terminó la pieza?...
Marvelous....
Is this the video where the guy gets his arm sawed off by some woman?
look for Gabriel Ayala, he's one of the best guitarists nowadays.
got the info,
The film made a fool. It is interesting to watch as a musician plays on his hands, but instead show some ruins.
+Пётр Пруцаков Согласен с тобой, братан. Но если бы они показывали только руки, то я бы смотрел на них до второго прихода Христа.
+Пётр Пруцаков no man, the musician plays with its own hands something that cant be told otherwise but with experience, so the devastation we feel when he plays that, can be represented by true tangible things, like the rutinary long days of work that this man has
+KeroThreeman music is another valid and more sentimental and emotional approach of reality
KeroThreeman Yeah
KeroThreeman Brilliant
the only person I know who could possibly do this is mattrach. Search mattrach La Foule, listen to it and you will see what I mean