We also recommend to watch and listen to the performance of John Williams' teacher, Prof. Andrés Segovia, the grand master of classical guitar himself, also recorded in the Alcázar Palace in Sevilla: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nJBISAiWLXU.html
@@chrisdavies5199 You know what i'm talking about. There's a quote from the movie August Rush and it's by Robin William's character, he said " you got to love Music more than food"
After almost 10 Years, I finally found it! My Guitar teacher used to always play this song, and i was always fascinated because she would play it when i would get frustrated about not changing chords fast enough or always having to look at my hand and she played that song, with her eyes closed and told me that for her to be able to do so she had to practice for years. I hope she's doung well ❤
@__GDS__ He is playing a classical guitar, which is an acoustic (non-electric) guitar with nylon strings, as opposed to the steel string acoustic guitar and the steel string Electric guitar.
I REMEMBER THIIIISSSS IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR ETERNITYYYY OMG OMGGGG😢😢😢😢😢😢❤ i remember this one bcs my father used to play it when i was young and i rmemeber the rythm and everything but the name omg. And i finally i found it on a ytb recommandatiom😢😢😢
Very good. RU-vid has been clearing up a lot of mysteries for me. If your dad could play this then he was great. Check out other classical guitar songs performed by John Williams, I bet you will recognize a few your dad played.
Relax....its a nice interpretion.....it not compelling or moves me to start feeling on myself....also genius he made a mistake on the 25th bar it is not a harmonic....so in short he ruined it....FOH.
Semplicemente perfetto, criticare wylliams e come criticare la perfezione vivente ,il crescendo della seconda parte è bestemmiare fatevene una ragione è il migliore di tutti e di sempre ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I've Listened to so many artists play this piece but In my opinion John Williams is the best. Perfect Tempo, everything comes together perfectly. Fantastic Playing. A dedicated Artist.
It's not perfection.. The right hand is poorly played. It is the wrist that must move. Pianists have recognized a good adaptation to the guitar because of the wrist technique. Here, this technique is absent. Which is a major fault in this theme.
Best acoustic recording ive heard in my 57yrs. I would like thank (but cant) the people who diligently did the sound, the person who set the guitar up, the composer, and john of course who i was aware of before his time with SKY band. This is beyond masterclass and sets the bar at a historic high for any virtuoso
Don't forget about the sound engineer who cleaned up the recording! We never get credit but were the guys who can turn a track into something crisp clean and magical!
71 years young and I dabble, (very enjoyably!) on my classical guitar, for 50 years now, purely for my own entertainment...First time I'm hearing this absolute master!...👍😊❤️
There is more to this performance than its absolute flawlessness... When this piece was composed, it was meant to be played EXACTLY this way. That's why we can call it perfection...
No, not unreachable. Practice. Practice with feeling - and not this automaton crap. “Ooh I play fast.” So what? Capture the emotion. Let it flow through you. Leave them in awe.
I play classical guitar and jazz piano most of my life the two diffrent styls only complete each other in many ways both require endless dedication you never stop learning ,i,m 77 years old...
@@craigblock138 Than band was called Sky and they released 6 albums with John Williams. I still have all of these albums I purchased waay back in the 80's. There are a few RU-vid clips showing them playing for folks to check out (searching "sky band" returns some). T-Rex's Herbie Flowers was also a member.
@@ChrisM541 Herbie Flowers as a band member before his tenure with Sky, is mostly associated with Blue Mink who had a no.3 hit single “Melting Pot”. As a session musician he played with so many big names of the seventies and eighties, but probably his most notable, some say legendary session, was Lou Reed’s album “Transformer” which featured “A Walk on the Wild Side”.
I'm no expert but when I hear John play I hear a different class of guitarist. Total command, with such warmth and expression - and he makes it look so effortless.
I was born in Asturias (live in Australia), the first time I'd heard the riff was via The Doors Spanish Caravan. Then I got to the real stuff! Makes me quite proud. Nostalgic.
@@luisfernandes2522 I love Ana's version - especially her strums (which sound more openly than John's). But, really, the skill levels are very different. John's is on a different level. Ana's is more pop for the masses (though brilliant pop!!)
I know it sounds silly, but I truly believe that Albeniz wrote this for John Williams to interpret it many, many years after. It is my hope that this version will be played in my funeral and I'm no even been born in Spain. Greetings from Toronto.
Albeniz's original is for piano solo. It's challenging, but manageable with two hands. I agree with you in that John Williams was born to play this on the guitar however. The phrasing, the variety of colours, the technical perfection are unmatched! And it's one of the recordings I remember from my earliest childhood. Made an impact then, remains as impactful as ever decades later.
It sounds perfectly like España. I can see its streets, pueblos, roads through Castilla la Mancha. Que me falta, Dio! This country has a soul, so unique and beautiful, you can even sense it in its great music. Viva la Grande España, y Bravissimo Maestro!! Thank you to give such a powerful hommage, and to bring such beloved souvenirs in my memory.
Whenever I look up a piece of guitar music to hear it played at the utmost level of perfection. I always stop and listen to John Williams. As a student of the great Maestro, Segovia. I know this is how to play it right, always. Segovia is smiling down on John, as he carries on his legacey.
It sounds like a religious battle to me, I would think it has a very in depth background. It is remarkable that someone has learned this yet alone record it.
I think he’s possibly the best of them all as a player. On top of that, he doesn’t pull any faces like the rest of them, which is great because that puts me off watching the rest of them
