best performance of a Sor I've ever heard

Hands down the best playing of the Introduction! Thank you for observing the forte-dolce indications and the dotted figures-the score truly comes alive from the first note.

The most interesting version of 'Variations on a theme by Mozart' by Sor that I've heard in some time. Well played.

Excellent guitarist with excellent technics and nuances.....plus, excellent guitar sounding...i wish you health and much more success...!

with Bach's Chaconne always keep myself Alive & Awake. Just Awesome. Great Performance.

Dude... that was just incredible.

Congrats on your performance and the joy of playing guitar you share with us all. Warm regards : )

clear and articulate, magnificent!

Wow. What a magnificent interpretation and play! This is by far the best rendition. This piece has been my favorite classical guitar music, but whenever I listen to those "masters" plays I somehow always slightly disappointed. They are flawless play -- technically speaking, of course, but I feel all of them are too dry. But this play is different and creative. Emanuel creates here an entirely new piece of music--a lovely, enjoyable, and musical. Once Glenn Gould said, " If you don't have anything new to say [ in his or her own play], don't say it." Congratulations Emanuel. Thank you so much.

One of the best versions I have heard on youtube !! Way to go !

Me gusta el estilo de este guitarrista. Sentimiento y concentración total.

excellent. unique. clear. beautiful.

Fantastic recording and one of my favourite pieces by Sor. Although I'm so used to listening to Segovia's and J. Williams' version of it, I thought your version was different interpretation and was hearing it in a whole new way. It was perfect!

En la actualidad hay varios, quizá bastantes guitarristas clásicos buenos. Este es un ejemplo. Su versión de la pieza de F. Sor es muy propia, con un estilo personal como debe ser (ya lo he dicho en otras partes). Es muy buena esta interpretación. Felicitaciones.

Очень грамотное исполнение. Браво!

Maravilloso. Gracias y bravo.

The Nature created lives and beautiful paints on the earth, our maestros complete voice with melodious musics. We are worth so much living once in the world .

Bravo! This is a remarkably hard work to play evenly in the style of Mozart. I thought your performance while perhaps a bit to austere for my taste (this the rocker in me) was very well done and equally enjoyable.

Brillantissime !

excellent‼️

so beautiful!!!

Wonderful performance!!!

Insane level of talent going on here 👏👏👏

Really nice.

thank yok Gabriel.

Clean.

Straordinario !

Bravo !

Wonderful ! xxxxxxx

Perfeito,,

Wish your bright future & great success!!!^^!!! Welcome to our nation, Republic Of Korea ㅡ Sadly Not to be Unification.

Articulation. So clear.

nice

great performance!! reminds me much of Segovia expression style

thank you

Fuck yeah!, so great.

Alguém sabe dizer que violão é esse?

@EmanuelEstradaYarce

8 жыл бұрын

Toda a informação esta na descrição do vídeo. É uma Greg Smallman.

David Russel

Brilliant playing but my goodness the acoustic ambience is brutally dead. Not a drop of reflection or reverb. In these circumstances the classical guitar can sound absolutely bone dry. Maybe he prefers that stark sound. Personally I hanker for a few large walls to reflect the sound back a little.

Articulate and nice tone, but too slow and the variations should have a better relationship to each other. Why the abrupt break at 7.50? The variations are linked together in many ways. Tempo should be the same in both of them, the second one is way too slow. Sor wrote the variation in order to be able to play it fast. It is very comfortable to fret while sliding up. This interpretation doesn't make sense to me. I do like the articulation in some staccatos that are different in the first variation etc. Most people tend to just play this the same as everyone else. The beginning has the mistake most people do; overdramatizing. Less slow in the slow parts and faster in the fast parts. You gotta find the balance in the variations and to do so, you have to relate them to each other. It is not just an intro with a bunch of variations. Look at the big picture.

@EmanuelEstradaYarce

4 жыл бұрын

I believe it is not really possible to say how a piece "should" be played. Everyone has a different approach to a piece, even when the composer wants something specific there is room for the performer to decide on how he or she wants to play the piece to fit their perception of it. If two different variations have totally different characters it is a good idea to leave some room to breath, throwing everything on top of the previously played passages might not be a good decision and that does not mean they are not connected. There is really nothing that specifies that the tempo should be the same, what's the "variation" on that? that can perfectly be, as I believe it is, a personal choice, not a must. We don't really have Sor to ask him if he wrote that to be played fast, music is not about speed but about how what's written can be clearly told in a certain situation, even different stages require different choices. If an interpretation does not make sense to a person does not mean it is not well thought. The balance of a piece as I mentioned is found many ways and relation is not only about tempo or space between a variation and the next. I believe that someone like Bianco, who has one of the most successful careers as a guitar performer has a lot more musical criteria than us. We don't have to agree with him but that does not mean that what he or anyone does is just "wrong" as your comment suggests.

@schnooleheletteletto

4 жыл бұрын

@@EmanuelEstradaYarce I agree with you that everyone can do what they want to the music as long as it gets personal and they're able to convince us of what they are doing. However, I still think you should work within certain frames of what the music is, otherwise sometimes it doesn't make sense. I think it is a good idea to study the music from a different standpoint than your instrument. You may not agree on what I am saying because you like his performance, I simply do not. If you study the score of the piece and how music was written in this era and time, you'll find that this is just a modernized personal version of the piece. I think very few people can pull these kind of things off (Glenn Gould, Roland Dyens, etc) but they still manage to play the pieces with the qualities and "rules" given by the composers. Thats the beauty of it. Thats what makes playing this kind of music difficult. Mr Bianco does none of that. I feel like he is just doing what he like here (in some variations), and I don't think it makes any sense. But this is just my opinion. Everyone does not have to agree with me. But you should think about one thing, just because this famous guitarist is famous doesn't mean he is right or have more musical criteria than us. I've listened to your videos a bit and I can say that you might have as much musical "rights" as Bianco, Sor or Mozart himself. Just because one famous guitarist does something doesn't mean it must make sense. Question things. Have your own opinions. Separate the artists from the music. Look at the music for what its "supposed" to be and try to understand what the musician is doing. To me I have no clue whatsoever what Bianco is doing here, it might mean I am stupid or it might mean he failed to deliver it to me. Do you think everyone here is thinking like me or are most of the people here just blown away by his nice sound, technique and musicality? Your comment seems to indicate I am not thinking outside the box, but now you know what I mean and you see that I am thinking outside the box. Maybe a bit too much, regardless, this performance is bad in my opinion, famous guitarist or not. But thats just my opinion.

@EmanuelEstradaYarce

4 жыл бұрын

@@schnooleheletteletto To be clear I totally agree with you, more than the topic that was being discussed my comment was just a reply of how it was written (how I understood it specifically). I have to say that I do not enjoy Bianco's performance as much as I do other musicians'. I decided to share these videos since they were not online at that time (2013) just as reference. Taste changes as music experience gets "older". I was a student then I might have been impressed by Bianco, can't remember hehe. I've even heard some more recent performances of him and he's more mature now as musician and that's good, I just try to keep the comment section as debates and points of view trying not to be very hard on the performance, it is 7 years old after all. I think no one can really teach someone else to be more mature at music and thus improve their performances, that's why I replied to your comment with such detail, I believe we can let people learn that by themselves by broadening their perspective and in that order of ideas I think we can learn from everyone, even from those who don't really play that good (musically speaking). I remember how I used to play pieces as some of my reference guitarists used to and realized after some time how bad of a choice it was with some musical ideas and technical solutions, but I learned a lot in that experimentation process. I might had not if I had been told it was not good. I don't pretend to sound as if I had the right point of view, but I think we can learn more from experimenting, even bad perspectives of music. Again, I totally agree with everything you said, just see it from the angle of my experience hehe.

@neiloshodges2816

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you could post a video of you playing this piece and demonstrate what you mean.

@schnooleheletteletto

3 жыл бұрын

​@@neiloshodges2816 Strange comment. What does my interpretation have to do with anything? If a conductor asks you to do something on your tuba, will you ask him to be able to do it or else his ideas are not justified?

The correct name of this work is "Introduction, Theme and Variations, Op. 9". Mozart didn't write the theme, he borrowed it and stuck into the libretto of his Opera.

@EmanuelEstradaYarce

6 жыл бұрын

I just looked it up and could not find a reference to the theme being borrowed, do you know who actually wrote the theme?

@FaDiezeMineur

5 жыл бұрын

I have a book with complete borrowed themes in music and there is no reference of this Mozart aria as having been either borrowed or transcribed or anything of the sort.

Clean your fretboard! Otherwise brilliant.