Julian Lloyd-Webber interviews guitarist Alexandra Whittingham about her path into music
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2023
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Well done GB News bringing variety to the channel.
Congratulations to Alexandra and thank you to GBNews (and Julian) for bringing a little common sense into this weary online world of ours.
Impeccable technique, beautifully played. Just stunning. Alexandra seems like a very humble and lovely person too. Very refreshing.
Really nice to see something normal for a change. Real people doing interesting things. Good on her
2 hell with her! Her music has as much flavour as an out of date ritz cracker.
normal, try modest and appreciative of her talents.... but normal???
Such a wonderful person and guitarist! Been following her since she started on UA-cam. Happy to see her succes.
Superb pleasure listening to her playing ❤ Thanks
Her tonal palette is amazing, along with her deep sense of the pulse. Segovia called the guitar an 'orchestra in a box,' and Alexandra Whittingham's virtuoso playing really illustrates this.
That tango is simply incredible
Beautiful
Lovely clean playing, well done 👏
Been following her from the beginning !!! She's just fantastic!!!
Good to see GB news branching out into this sort of programme
Masterful! Like a time capsule in a guitar... Wonderful.
I love Alexandra. She is a beautiful person and a beautiful guitarist. I bet she is a really lovely person off camera. And this piece The Forgotten is just haunting and beautiful
. Xx
Absolutely breathtakingly brilliant ❤
I've been subscribed to her YT channel for over 3 years now. She never disappoints. It's nice to see her in an interview, very humble. Wish she would tour the US.
She performed this during the height of the pandemic. She went to a hospital, set up a stage outside and let hospital workers and family of patients to sit, relax and enjoy. I thought it was wonderful. It was YT piece.
Such ability. Marvelous to see and hear.
Her music is a drab as the British weather,no soul,no groove, just boring.
nice lady her dad was a window cleaner love that,thats why iam a follower, a northwest lass ,so much talent bought the cd and book ,seen her live,got to help young music talent along ,love the classic guitar
Brilliant talent. Wonderful music. More segments like this please GBN.
Nice to see something different.
Just wonderful ,
Another excellent GB News show.
Awesome guitar player. Greetings from Montreal!
Wonderful
I don't actually need the interview. Just the sound of her playing the guitar is just how I hear it in my summer days, when all the family locals' offspring's come back. Suddenly I like not so bad by not belonging, just I feel magical witnessing it. Please people like you don't ever stop - we keep culture - I feel - by the likes of you. I'm just so humbled to have experienced it. Cheers.
Adorabile Alexandra 🙏😘
Brilliant news❤
I'm Portuguese, born in 1984. There has been, subjected to me, a lot of Portuguese and also Spanish guitarists, in my childhood and in my life. Honestly a lot of them felt completely unrelated to me, despite how genious their guitar playing was. Some years later YT was a thing and the algorithm also was a thing, and I found out about Alexandra.
In all honesty lots of stuff I've hear better when played portuguese or spanish guitarists. But also there's A LOT OF STUFF where Alexandra is just utterly indistinguishable or just plain better than what I've heard before. It thought me that it doesn't matter where you are from if you feel it and mean to play the stuff.
It's just so immensely and overwhelmingly nice to hear people from other countries (from my own local portuguese birth) to pick stuff up and just like it... Just cheers from me.
The French piece was stunning😊😊
Alexandraさん 笑顔がとても素敵!
Brilliant Guitarist seen her before.
❤
Alexandra a un talent exceptionnel et sait rester simple.
Et, sublime exploit, c'est elle qui m'a fait aimer la guitare, instrument qui, avant de l'entendre caressé par ses doigts, ne me séduisait guère.
Comment la remercier à la mesure du bonheur qu'elle nous offre ?
Alexandra Have just seen your interview with Julian Lloyd Webber today and thanks for an interesting conversation and performance of 2 pieces of familiar tunes from yourself . I’ve been listening to a lot of your recent recordings from your new book European Romance and liked them very much and the videos which accompanied . However I cannot read music 🎶 or play an instrument of any type and am a tad too old to start trying , being in my mid seventies therefore I was wondering whether you would be releasing a cd to join my copy of your previous Album European Journey which is great ?!!! . I am subscribed incidentally and think all your work thus far and thank you for so much enjoyment ! ❤❤❤👍🏻👍🏻😁😁
You're never too old to start. I started ballet at 68, 3 years later still loving it. find yourself a teacher and try!
👏👏👏
Should do twin acoustic guitar music with Sir Ritchie Blackmore!!🎉
Yeah that’s sounds like hell on earth as both musicians are crap.
I got a commercial break on 7'12, just a few bars away from the end of Forgotten. I fully apreciate that YT-channels live on these things. However, this was not only annoying, but rather disrespectful to the artist and the music. Please fix this, GBNews!
Nice interview, thank you!
Alexandra Whittingham is an excellent and skilful guitarist.
Hi @Sermondt - I stumbled upon this YT video today (being an Alexandra Whittingham subscriber) and didn't quite understand the background to your comment. Grateful if you would clarify please. 🤔
@@michaelhingley4770
Hi,
Her first performance was interupted by a commercial break, almost at the end of the piece.
It annoyed me 😋
@@Sermondt Got it - thanks Arjan and fully understand your frustration!
An otherwise excellent GB News piece, as you say, showcasing the virtuosity of my favourite classical guitarist. 😍
@@michaelhingley4770
I also follow her yt-channel (among others)
This week I received a copy of her 'European Romance' book. I thought it's a way to support her and also an opportunity to learn some new pieces during the summer holidays 😊
Do you play too?
Take care, Michael!
@@Sermondt Hi Arjan - I don't play and sadly too long in the tooth to start learning how to now! I hope you derive great satisfaction from your own playing. 😄
I love German songs
Easy on the ear and easy on the eye.
You're divorced aren't you Phil.
@@Leidolfr so being married means you find no other woman attractive?
@@zaftra It means you know how to keep certain things to yourself, and not make strangers potentially feel uncomfortable with unwanted comments.
Doesn't take a lot of civility to not type that.
@@Leidolfr who says it's uncomfortable and unwanted? Are you the person in the video, if not why do you think you can speak for her or know what she thinks and feels?
'keeping things to yourself', especially when criticising others for saying what you think out loud is what they call hypocrisy.
@@zaftra
I very clearly said potentially.
But nobody likes perverted old men, especially young women,
They also tend to be divorced, for that very reason.
That is all.
This is a video and performance of a musician.
Sorry that me calling him out upsets you.
Not interested in a non argument,
I'm sure Phil appreciates you jumping to his defence though.
'social media' is worthless, or at the very least overrated, and it's musicians and music who make the world of music go round, nothing else, not even audiences if these are comprised of non-musicians.....AW would have been there doing what she does even without the existence of 'social' media, even without an audience, because music is embedded into her essence. And if anyone pays attention, her audience is mostly comprised of musicians. All these other meaningless trends will go tomorrow, but music and the work of musicians, will remain. This is what happened through the entire history of music, and it won't be any different now. But of course I am being negative only about 'social' media (note the quotes), not of performing on video. They are not the same thing. Performing is performing, on video or not, and serious musicians should always see performing as an exciting and instructive adventure.
It's not a film, it's a video.
Not overly keen on the piece, not my style of taste, but great note articulation and timing,
Made it very enjoyable still :)
And it is so nice to see a young woman not covered in Tattoos !
The vast majority of young women do not have tattoos. U drama queen.
Really don't understand how in a video of a woman displaying an immense amount of musical skill, you still manage to only talk about her appearance.
@@Leidolfryou have bad tattoos
Sorry to see you on GBNews, Alex.
100% this. So disappointing @AlexandraWhittingham
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A quick peek at Alexandra's album is very promising. Like all acoustic instruments, guitar needs a good room. It's a dance, and is not captured properly in her outdoor performances. One I watched might even be mimed, which would be a shame given her talent. But I understand the need to tick boxes. Personally I'm never against (eg) birdsong in recordings. Did the composer stop work because of it? Not at all.
Jack the ripper was an organist 😆