The guitar: I didn't even know I could do that.

@edgartellez4394

Ай бұрын

Right...that guitar is in shock...like "im traveling the universe in this guys hands"..lol

@user-nb8wl6ow6f

27 күн бұрын

That is very funny. Yes you are right!

This is probably THE most amazing classical guitar performance I've ever seen. Can't imagine what it must have been like to see it live.

@juancruzgrondona8160

29 күн бұрын

Buen instrumento. Con proyeccion. Y un excelente i nterprete.

@juancruzgrondona8160

29 күн бұрын

Lo escuche al viejo cadtillo por. Segovia excelente es otra interpretacion. Como.mantiene la. Sexta en re. Constante sin comparar. Suenan disti ntos. Muy buenos los dos. Guitarristas.

@juancruzgrondona8160

29 күн бұрын

Excelente. Guitarrista y. Muy buen instrumento sonoro

@user-nb8wl6ow6f

27 күн бұрын

of course I know him very well. At that time Andrés Segovia was also so amasied his performace too. Andrés Segovia was an one of very famouse guitarlist of the world , you know. Of course he was Spanish. And I heard his performance when he was 89 years old while he was visiting in Japan. That was the last visit of Japan. So, it means I also was the very rare person who knows his (Segovia) performance on my own ears.

The history of the guitar is divided into two periods. Before 1984 and after 1984. After the Toronto recital the guitar is different in the world. The genius Kazuhito Yamashita !!

@KMT9999

7 ай бұрын

How true. But it is also true that nobody else has ever reached this height since 1984.

@juanandrescontreras1221

7 ай бұрын

Totally agree! was a before and after, the guitar was transformed and showed an orchestral sound dimension, unthinkable not only for that time but for our days. All that came about thanks to the genius of the master yamashita

@angelblancorocks

7 ай бұрын

AMEN!

@CLOCK110000

7 ай бұрын

Actually, it was 1980 when he premiered this song in Chiba, Japan. The LP record was released in 1981.

@palpalonpalpalon

6 ай бұрын

paco de lucia. paco and yamashita are from other galaxies even so nice of them to come and visit us!@@KMT9999

Dude shreds the classical guitar rule book for posture by flinging his body all over the place, flying left elbow, overextending both the right and left hands, hunching his shoulders, etc. and produces one of the most amazing performances ever. So much for rule books!

@ramonbril

Ай бұрын

Only slaves follow rules.

@manariwa

Ай бұрын

And tuning in between all those!

@quemades

Ай бұрын

@@manariwawithout skipping a beat

@uhMaxx

Ай бұрын

rules are for sheeps

@aako-dd1ly

Ай бұрын

Are you that amazed at the fact that most prestigious musicians throw the rules out the window? Because its pretty common

it doesn't sound like a guitar, it sounds like a full orchestra... and choir!

@michaelvaladez6570

Ай бұрын

Bravo..that's when you know you are witnessing a major achievement.

This is incredible, i am totally amazed. There is SO much going on here. I can't believe i found this only in 2024, but that's why i love internet and youtube. What a genius, thank you !

@markbryant4641

26 күн бұрын

Yeah, mate. Me too. This is something else.

This is the upper limit of classical guitar playing for human.

@MottiShneor

3 ай бұрын

Who do you call human here? This is godly rendition.

@cyborg-dd7hy

Ай бұрын

I agree~! He arranged just 18 yrs!

It is like watching a lion fly. Doing something which is outside the realm of possibility.

Can’t believe just now through KZread have we heard of Kazuhito. I guess if you weren’t around in the 70s or 80s you missed him. Why did we learn of others but not this guy? Amazing virtuoso!

@alankkoc

Ай бұрын

I remember clearly when this came out. Every so called concert guitarist or critic said it had to be fake, done in a studio couldn't be done by one person. They looked for places they said where impossible. This video shows how it's possible to be able to play this piece. It reminds me of how Barrios must have been viewed by establishment, so different, able improvise on stage. Yamashita was and is incredible. The western prejudice decided he couldn't be because he wasn't one of them. Here is the proof

@torgo4ever

Ай бұрын

To build on the last comment , I came to this performance via a video about him where the narrator explained that Kazuhito was getting shade thrown at him by the western musical community and media. ...ask Nikola Tesla what it means to be a genius among haters at that level.

@kevinm6790

Ай бұрын

As a westerner, I hate that the prejudice happened and that this man’s talent was hidden from us.

@klauswhitedreamer

8 күн бұрын

@@alankkocyou are right !

Even after 45 years no other guitarist plays it better than him.

The greatest solo performance that I have ever heard. I didn't think that the human body was even capable of that level of perfection. Especially on a classical guitar. And a composition for a full symphony orchestra no less. My wife & I are totally blow away. Liked & subscribed!

There’s no competition… I feel sick and spellbound at the same time. Truly the greatest player I’ve ever seen and heard. Just discovered this esoteric 8th wonder today. Technically I can’t rate and compare anyone even close to him. Playing fit for the Gods….

I'd like to thank Lucas Brar for educating me on this astonishing performance.

Every body position is designed to give his hands the best possible position to give the best possible sound. This guy is next level genius.

A man possessed. His complete immersion into the music and the guitar itself is incredible. His technique is phenomenal, especially his right hand. Not many can extract this much sound from a classical guitar.

@jeremyhickersonsalem

Ай бұрын

I would say "no one else" rather than not many :)

@isaacr8190

Ай бұрын

I’ve never seen a tremolo like it

This is, by far, the most amazing guitar performance ever. I'm not hormone-struck 16 year-old, nor even a "fan" of Mr Yamashita. I hardly have any of his recordings. I usually listen to other classical guitarists - still, he attempted here something that is simply impossible, and I don't know if this achievement can be ever re-produced. Nothing is lost. Nothing is diminished. Nothing is simplified. This piano piece was so rich and polyphonic - that it was translated to ORCHESTRA and there was "enough content" for all sections of the orchestra. What. On Guitar???? That's simply impossible. I see. I hear. I stand in awe, I enjoy the music I love so much. and I keep muttering "Impossible"

@icecreamforcrowhurst

Ай бұрын

You should check out Lenny Breau. He was on this level but as an improviser.

Absolutely the greatest guitar performance of all time. There is beauty and perfection in all aspects. At this late stage in my life I didn't think I could be so profoundly touched by a performer. I was wrong!!! Thank you, Thank you!!!

unbelievable the range of emotions he conveys on a single guitar, I almost teared up multiple times, especially around 26:45 and 28:02 when he straight up turned his guitar into an angelic choir

This is the most incredible performance of all time. Before Yamashita no one knew the guitar could do this. Even with the written score in front of you it all seems impossible....yet he does it.

He gives me the feeling only select master pianists give me, that I’m hearing a world of orchestration and a total dissolution into the music.

@JohnTravena

Ай бұрын

Well said.

@Steamplague

Ай бұрын

It’s like watching Rachmaninov play, inspiring and humbling.

人は、イライラしたり、怒り、恨み、憎しみ、ねたみ、そねみ、呪い、などに、とらわれていると、超能力は、発揮されないそうです。 先生の演奏は、👼様！！！素晴らしい先生だから、。奏でられるもの。🙏✨なのかもしれません。素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます(*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡✨✨✨ありがとうございます。

Fantastic! First became aware of this piece: By ELP early 70’s. Now checking out Mussorgsky. Now thanks to YT. This great Classical guitarist.

I applaud the luthier, and the strings, at several points I was scared something would break 😂

Creo que es la mejor interpretación que he podido escuchar de esta obra maestra.

If this wasn't captured on video, no one would have believed it possible...

I still remember the tremendous experience of seeing his live in Tokyo decades ago.

None of the guitarists who play this arrangement are able to play as dynamically as Yamashita. Because this song played on the guitar is playing in their brains. The sounds of an orchestra must be playing in Yamashita's head.

Yamashitasan is in a category all by himself. I've never seen such intensity.

This guy has to be the greatest guitarist I have ever heard in any genre!! I didn''t think this was humanly possible.

God-like guitar play! Nrver seen before!!!

That is AMAZING! Totally out of this world! Really, this guy has to be from another planet, no one ever came close to this level of mastership! Technically crazzy good, BUT always musically perfect and justified!

I’ve waited for a better quality video here on KZread for so long, and to think Kazuhito Yamashita himself brought it to the public... thank you very much! Now I can finally try to understand a bit of the right hand technique employed, especially that one finger tremolo. Wish I could have watched this live, but the concert took place long before I was born.

@lazycat724

Ай бұрын

Is he using his pinky for tremolo at one point?

@tomb613

16 күн бұрын

​@@lazycat724 Yes!!!

My God! He just “killed” everyone ! Such staggering command of his instrument. He just stamped his mark as if to say “ this is how it should be played”

@JohnTravena

Ай бұрын

No guitarist has his virtuosity with the range of dynamics he uses.

OMG! I just heard of him today on the tonebase channel and had to find this performance, it's so good for the soul. He truly is the greatest player of our time. Cheers from an old Las Vegas drummer!!

An incredible genius who is several frets beyond anyone else!! The great Yamashita!!!

Saw Maestro play this live in LA back in 90(?), never have been the same since hearing him, I think maybe it was the pinky tremolo that made me lose my mind.😳

@jesuizanmich

Ай бұрын

Yea, playing while holding a constant pianissimo tremolo with the pinky. That's some superhuman dexterity. Most people I know never even use the pinky!

This is truly incredible. I’ve been playing classical guitar for 20 years (holy crap, that’s a long time) and I can’t imagine playing some of these passages.

technique to serve the music. His dynamic its unique.

I'm a student of all things guitar and music for decades but this guitarist really is his own category. He blazes the notes then strides with technique and amazement.

Amazed. Articulating your own voice while honoring the composer is quite rare. ❤

Yamashita here has given the single greatest solo guitar 🎸 Masterclass performance I’ve ever seen in any idiom. And I have seen many great ones, i.e., Holdsworth, Pass, Gatton, Williams, DeLucia, etc. His musicality, technique, dynamics , and stamina are simply beyond words. Possessed by the hands of a Higher Power playing a musical instrument. 😮

@Gongchime

7 күн бұрын

Holdsworth's 16 Men of Tain uses Coltrane's approach used on Giant Steps. Planing holds over a series of intervals, then after an interlude of a single minor major 7 chord, he repeats the intervals series at a different place in the cycle of 5ths. Absolute genius.

Is it Christmas? It must be Christmas!!! Thank you for posting an incredible moment in history captured on film!!!

Somehow the music is playing the guitar here... what a passion in this man!

Wow!, just when I thought I have seen it all the youtube algorithm sends me this and I am totally blown away.

Imagine doing something that no one ever could do or repeat. Incredible

Thank you so much for posting this extraordinary performance. It brought tears to my eyes.

I never thought anyone could pull off Pictures on guitar, especially this well. Bravo!

Brings tears to my eyes..

I've been a fan if Mussorgskys music since 2000 and am amazed at my discovery of Yamashita coinciding with him playing Mussorgksy.. 🤔 circle of life

Thank you Thank you Thank you! For the ages!

Phenomenal! The bright variety of sounds he was creating was fantastic. You don't miss any orchestral instrument - he brings all the nuances with just 6 strings.

jesus christ the fuck how did he do that paco de lucia and kazuhito yamashita are both from the same planet nice of them to come visit us and show us how the true mastery is

@antonio_rioseco

5 ай бұрын

And I would say Kazuhito is from a Planet far beyond than the great Paco…

伝説の動画「展覧会の絵」が公式から配信される日が来るとは思ってもみませんでした。 一回舞台袖へはけて、鳴りやまない拍手にあたふたと2回も戻って来られた若き日の神のお姿は、人間ぽくって好き。

I assigned this as a listening for my students. they're gonna love it 🥰

@CanadianDivergent

Ай бұрын

haha found it!

@heidi7029

Ай бұрын

:c

@thegoldenfret123456

Ай бұрын

thanks teach

@27thLiz

Ай бұрын

💯

@Sorhands

25 күн бұрын

@@CanadianDivergent⭐️

KZreadでこれまで何百回も見てきました。見る度に感動し涙を流します。最高画質と音質のご提供をしてくださり、ありがとうございます。

人間にこんな演奏ができるのかちょっと信じられない気持ちで聞いています。完璧という言葉が陳腐に思える位、何かを超越しています。

@alchemist1111

2 ай бұрын

I listen to this several times times a year and each time it's never any less unbelievable to me. I have not heard anyone else play this piece come anywhere remotely close to this.

As groundbreaking as Segovia, if not more so. Stunning.

One of the greatest living guitarist

...did Yamashita really play this transcription, he himself wrote, when 16yrs old? ... but then.. to play it like he does in this recording .. ? .. the best transcription I've ever heard ❤️ bravo..

Pictures at an Exhibition is such a wonderful immersive piece and I have never seen someone bring it to life so well by just using a single instrument. I can almost feel the gnome staring at me, crouched behind a stalagmite with classical guitar in hand!!! Amazing!!!

I kind of understand now what must have been the sensation of seeing Paganini performing back then

The dynamic range really shows, and the treble picking back by the bridge really changes the tone, the way you arpagiate out the chords sounds very harp like. you are getting a lot of sounds out of one guitar. 😊

My first introduction to this piece was Emerson,Lake and Palmer. It remains one of my all time favorites. I love your expertise. Thank you for sharing your talents!

@danielprietog

Ай бұрын

I first discovered the Tomita record in my dad’s collection and about a year later I got to the ELP live version. It was there, but fell in love with the electronic version first. Curiously, I got to the original piano version after the Ravel-orchestrated one.

It's just a miracle

Heard of this piece only shortly after you posted this vid. Ive been obsessed ever since. This has gotta be the most impressive musical performance ive ever seen in my life. Easily among my top favorite guitarists now.

This marvelous musician has opened my eyes to the fact that it isn’t just the piano that can come close to reproducing the sound of an entire orchestra, but a mere 6 strings stretched out on a fretboard over a resonant “box” of wood-a guitar-can do the same thing! Oh, but it takes so much skill and dexterity and musicianship to make it happen. Sometimes the word, amazed, is just too weak to express one’s reaction. Astonished comes a little bit closer, but can’t quite get there.

Umbeliavable.

amazing, just learning of yamashita, incredible performance, the last 10 minutes are other-worldly, he's already played 22 minutes and goes into some of the most amazing guitar work from there, and absolutely masters it.

The pinnacle of music right here

OMG!!! What a performance! I was completely mesmerized by his playing. Never thought I would sit through half an hour on you tube watching this😂

Astonishing. Astounding. I have no more words. 😢

Total genius. I play for 33 years and have never heard of you, until today. Wow 😮

神話的なプレゼンテーションがギターの歴史の前後であったことを見て聞いて、どれほどエキサイティングか。アートは常に、この惑星での人間としての私たちの最高かつ最高の表現を示します。山下マスターの感性と芸術に感謝します。人間として私たちが反対のことをしている時代です。この貴重な芸術作品をもう一度アップロードしていただきありがとうございます。乾杯!

I don't watch your performances enough but you're my favorite classical guitarists. Your performances of Bach's cello suites were incredible.

The spirit of music possessed and spoked through him

Incredibly on one guitar! Das ist unfassbar orchestral! Eine Gitarre, just one guitar! Excellent, never heard that so good. And I played it within an guitar-orchestra. Unbelievable emotional work. Thank you Maestro

i remember buying this on cd when it was firs released as a classical guitarist studying the repertoire of that time i was blown away and couldn’t believe one guitarist had played this entire piece, absolutely astonishing. yamashita is probably the greatest classical guitarist in terms of technical ability.

鳥肌が立ち続けました。ギターのみとは思えない。山下さん自身の奥底に惹きこまれるような引力があります。ギターの演奏でここまで感情的に揺さぶられたのは初めてです。奇跡と言って良いほどの名演です。是非その場でお聞きしたかった。

クラシック以外の世界中の全ギタリストの方にもこの動画を観ていただきたいですね。いったいどんなリアクションをされるのか観てみたいです。 バイオリンのひまりちゃんもそうだと思いますが 山下和仁さんはどう考えても天才だと思います。 それ以外の大半のプロの演奏家がどんなに努力をし練習を積んでも到底することのできない演奏をされていると思います。 他の演奏家の方が出せない音も出していると思います。 いったい何種類の音色を奏でているのかと数えたくなるほどに(笑) もはやそれは『天才』だから と言う事以外に理由が見つからないです。 この動画は出来るだけ多くの音楽を愛する方に観ていただきたいと思います。 展覧会の絵と言う名組曲が素晴らしい作品だと言うことを 山下和仁さんの演奏、そしてやはり 山下和仁さんの天才的な編曲 これで再確認させられる演奏だと思います。

A true master of his instrument.

Que hermosura, virtuosísmo puro!!!! wooowww

マエストロの最も有名な映像のマスター版が遂に、もう感謝しかございません。とても40年近く前の演奏とは思えません。世界中が驚嘆したのも頷けます。 魂のこもった演奏に、何回聴いても感動で涙が出てきます。 本当にありがとうごさいます。

Incredible artistry and mastery to both arrange this and perform it like this.

ギターに掛けるひたむきな姿、情熱、限界に挑むその総てが この演奏にはある。 ギター演奏史に燦然 と異才を放つ名演。

This has to be a dream; nobody is that good!

Потрясающе! До прослушивания / просмотра этого ролика даже не мог представить, что ТАК можно играть на классической гитаре. - Это нечто запредельное. Я, конечно, не профессиональный музыкант, но люблю слушать музыку, в том числе гитарную, и то, как играет господин Kazuhito Yamashita - это совершенно поразительно на всех уровнях моего разумения: и в плане техники исполнения (и звукоизвлечения), и в плане артистизма, и в целом - как интерпретация музыкального произведения. Браво!

😮😮😮😮 I just found out last night about this magnificent guitarist and his interpretation ❤❤❤❤❤of pictures of exhibition

アップ本当に有難う御座います。こんな日が来るとは夢のようです。待っていた甲斐がありました。感謝感謝です。

Greatest Classical Guitar Performance.

It seems the guitar is almost at the point of collapsing, because the spiritual pressure Yamashita-chan is just about to explode all the time. A genius playing with the edge.

Wow !! He's just from other world !! About the arrangement All an orchestra in his 6 strings About performance with no comparison with anything listened before.. it's ñike bethoven from quietness to bravery in one second ..I've never seen anybody so fast..what dynamics..what a mixture of resources of guitar..he plays with his own technique !!! ( what a pity, the recording could be frontal, with best sound...) I like a lot this Mussorgky piece and never thought to listen to a solo guitar !!!! Barbarian !!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

山下さんは誰が何と言おうと世界一のギターリストです。

@DmitryLevin

6 ай бұрын

Together with Alexey Zimakov

WOW. yes, im speechless. GNOMUS is unbelievable. this man is surely the top master, i have never heard anyone playing M like this.

This is at another level.

BRAVISIMO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Speaking strictly for me, this is by far the GREATEST art music acoustic guitar concert ever. Is like the "Woodstock" for the instrument. Your words of encouragement still resonate in me: がんばってください ! ! !

@virtualpilgrim8645

20 күн бұрын

Kazuhito Yamashita just murdered Jimi Hendrix

No puedo expresar cuánto me emociona esta interpretación cada vez que la escucho. Me siento como un niño. ¡Muchas gracias por compartir esta joya histórica!

公式からついに！！！ 映像めっちゃきれい✨ 2006年くらいにこの動画を見つけて毎日のように聴いてきた😚 演奏後の映像初めてみたかも、拍手が鳴り止まないのが流石海外だなと思った。

この人のことを全く知らなくて、さっき初めて動画を見ました。 「マジで全部やるの！？最初のとこだけじゃなくて！？」というのが最初の感想。そして凄まじいダイナミクス。一人だけなのにオーケストラが見える。恐ろしい演奏でした。見れて良かった。そして知れて良かった。感謝です。

最高レベルのパフォーマンス。サムライギターです。このようなパフォーマンスは音符で演奏するのではなく、自分自身、楽器、素材との本当の戦いです。そしてこの戦いに勝利したのは和仁だった。私はそのような印象を残したギタリスト、ロシア出身のアレクセイ・ジマコフしか知りませんでしたが、彼はあまりにも早くに私たちのもとを去りました。そして和仁さんのコンサートに行くことができました！

The emotion, creativity, and virtuosity are off the charts. This is some next-level stuff. I bet people who saw Paganini felt what I've felt right now.