I have collected recordings of variations and transcriptions of Paganini's 24th caprice since before I attended college (for more than 40 years). I have versions played on a tuba, a glass harmonica, drums, and even washboards and saws. I participated in the recording of a new-age, jazz version for a musical project at Cornell University. This performance on acoustic guitar is-without doubt-the most talented, pleasing and moving rendition that I have experienced. It is also remarkably faithful to the original violin composition. Considering the technical complexity of matching the many violin techniques and sounds on a guitar, it's clear that this artist is gifted beyond any words that I can find to praise her performance. Viewing and listening to this RU-vid video is very uplifting. It is truly a great thrill. Thank you, Li Jie. You light up my life. You are amazing!
Talented beyond recognition, for sure. Uplifting - no. It is impossible to be uplifted when one is steeped in unfathomable jelousy at a.. 14 year-old who has attained what I never will and what people who have studies the instrument for decades never will either.
Nah, she ain't. She's pretty good, but nothing beyond that. Pretty shallow interpretation. She doesn't give it a romantic alla Liszt/Mendelssohn interpretation nor a Segovia-like purity achievement. She just play all the right notes in a good tempo. Nothing says best than the last 20 seconds of this video. Just bland, bland music. She never goes for a virtuoso-like feeling. But she's pretty good, I won't deny that.
6661joshua In a way you are right. Look, I play both electrical (blues, rock etc) and also classical guitar, of course not even close to the level of this kid. One thing is for sure, master the classical guitar is way way more complicated than the electrical guitar, it requires literally thousands of hours of dedication, not so if you want to be a good blues guitarrist
thats becuz you guys dont make things, just reproduce, and when you guys try to make music its a piece of crap. So stick to the real classical players while we make the real modern deal ;)
This young lady outclasses most of the guitarists I have heard here in You Tube. She has a distinct technique and clarity in every single tone she brings up. I played capriccio 24 myself on both guitar and violin a couple of years ago. In several of the variations and especially the one with thirds and decimas as many otherwise simplify , Jie Li manages gallantly.
***** Hey, look at there, check this out, man! Do you see that too? There's like a piece of cloth there... Is she blindfolded, or something? OH YEAH! DUMBASS.
Rom Rom if you can play this song doesnt mean a thing, if you ask her to play Steve vai..it will be a hard, al di meola? another fail,..paco de lucia and his intricate moved...fail. when i learned to play fast and intracate passages i thought i knew it all..but i couldnt be more wrong. peace!
Who are the insecure 559 wannabes that down voted this. Li Jie at 13 and I still can't get her feel after 20 years. Incredible, masterful, go home cry babies.
I don't know why people would discredit her talent because of her ethnicity... Yea she's Asian and she has probably practiced loads but so do other musicians?
I have always admired this performance since 2009 , I actually quited from playing to enjoy such master pieces as this sample. My most sincere congratulations for Li Jie
W O W! You play so wonderfully that you can wake the dead up with your music. Your playing fills me up with so much peace and love. You are absolutely fabulous. Thank you for all the wonderful feelings and sensations you create with your instrument. Bravo. Bravo. I hope to be hearing more from you soon as I believe that also your whole audience does too. Bye for now.
George Dounos hahah nobody who actually plays violin would say that... If you try to play this peace on a violin, you will laugh at your own comment m8.
Guglielmo Vetere Its a joke XD i mean this is amazing talent no denying that. But I play violin bass and classical/electric guitar and this makes me lol so hard. Guitar in general is sooo much easier to play than violin. And this peace is one of the hardest to play very clean on violin, requires sooo much echnique of especially left hand but also bowing technique.
Listen, it's cool if you don't know the guitarist's name and therefore refers to him as "unknown", however it's not cool to refers to him as "asian". By doing so you suggest there are differences in the capabilites between lets say europeans and asians, which everyone who's researched it will deny. Just try to imagine if he was european, would you have put that in the description?
Mere Eraso He is from Sweden. What do you expect? Sweden is the new Africa and the most liberal country in the world. They don't even use "he" or "she" anymore. People are all "it" in Sweden. The social constructs have really destroyed them.
Wow. It's not often people admit to intentionally having chosen words with racist underlinings, but you just had to go all out, didn't you? Enjoy your small collective illusion of power for as long as you can. I mean it. Because you'll soon find things crumbling around you.
his fingers are so flexible, running back and forth on the fingerboard, and producing an outstanding sound....I hope that when I finally master this song on the guitar as well, it will be as good as this!
every now and then I keep coming back to this video ... this must be my 40th - 45th time watching this. thank you for keeping this video around! this is truly a treat for the ears and eyes.
great instrumentalists live off people like paganini. that's why paganini is immortal and this lady is as mortal as all of us. technology will never replace creativity but it will certainly replace instrumental performance. great skill though. thanks for the upload.
Li Jie is probably the best guitarist that plays this "thing", that is a very masterpiece, in the essence. All the deaf that missed the like button are also deathbrains... just look the flames that raise on her fingers, no words.
Wowwwww . What a rendition !!! I just saw the John Williams version ,that is great , but nothing is like this .Congratulations for this wonderfull lady .
One of the most soulfull versions of this piece i ever see on a classical guitar. I am a heavy metal guitar player and know how challenging this piece is, i start working on it 3 months ago, but other than the most metalists, i try to play it clean, because distortion kills all the delicate parts. I watch this movie nearly one time a day, its wonderful how she play that.
That entire palm mute section is so amazing. I can palm mute but try doing it while finger picking, that's a whole new world of hard. Li Jie never ceases to amaze me. Seriously if not the best then very, very close to the best guitarist out there.
Very hard piece. When I first started playing it took me three months all day practicing to play it properly, even though I have over twenty five years experience with the guitar.
This is the MOST INCREDIBLE GUITAR PLAYING I have ever seen or heard in ALL of my 45 years! What technical prowess...and talent. Just unbelievable. Period . END of Story. I believe this is what Randy Rhoads could have ended up playing, if he had lived, he LOVED classical guitar.
