classical guitar recital Narciso Yepes, 10-string guitar

Uploaded by Jake on July 28, 2017 at 8:46 am

classical guitar recital Narciso Yepes, 10-string guitar

About the Yepes 10-string guitar: http://www.tenstringguitar.INFO

Standard tuning of the Yepes ten-string guitar:

7=C2 [lowest string]
8=A#2 / Bb2
9=G#2 / Ab2
10=F#2 / Gb2

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The legendary Narciso Yepes performs an 80 minute solo recital, plus 25 minutes of encores, on the ten-string guitar of his own conception, at the Teatro Real de Madrid, in 1979. This is without electronic amplification of the guitar, as Yepes always insisted, but with his improved sitting position and revolutionary right hand technique, which, together with his 10-string guitar's sympathetic resonance, optimize tone quality and projection. (The microphone seen is for the video's audio recording only, not for amplification.) As one reviewer wrote about another recital:

'Guitar concerts in Carnegie Hall can be a frustrating affair. Narciso Yepes brought his 10-string invention there last Thursday, and suddenly it was not a problem hearing that instrument in that space.
'His guitar fills the hall with sound. The musician who plucks it is one of the finest in the world today. The second half of the program was devoted entirely to 20th-century works, an intriguing survey of music - for an apparently limited instrument - that was at once engrossing yet challenging. Of greatest interest were Eduardo Sainz de la Maza's ''Laberinto,'' with its jazzy undercurrent, and Leonardo Balada's supremely virtuosic, exciting ''Analogias.''
'Mr. Yepes, who appears to be not much larger than his oversize instrument, is a selfless musician, putting the music before his personality in what could serve as the ideal of any performing artist but so rarely is. One left his recital stimulated and elated, with nary a thought as to the potential limitations of the instrument, dynamically or musically.'

RECITAL PROGRAMME:

KUEHNEL (transcr. Yepes): Suite for 11-course Baroque Lute - 00:00

-Allemande 00:00
-Courante 03:38
-Sarabande 05:00
-Menuet 07:28
-Gigue 09:20

BACH (transcr. Yepes): Sarabande & Double in B minor BWV 1002 - 11:43

-Sarabande 11:43
-Double 15:26

BACH (transcr. Yepes/Enesco): Chaconne in D minor - 18:46

SOR (rev. Yepes): Fantasie Villageoise, op. 52 - 33:38

SOR (rev. Yepes): Variations sur "Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre", op. 28 - 42:37

PERIS: Elegia para Gisela (for 10-string guitar) - 48:29

KUCERA: Diary (Homage to Che Guevara) - 55:50

-Day of Love 55:50
-Day of Hate 58:20
-Day of Decision 01:00:27
-Day of Battle 01:02:25
-Day of Death 01:04:25

BROUWER: Tarantos (written for Narciso Yepes) - 01:08:41

VILLA-LOBOS: Etudes - 1:13:14

-Etude no. 1 - 1:13:14
-Etude no. 11 - 1:14:56
-Etude no. 12 - 1:18:32

...ENCORES:

BACARISSE (rev. Yepes): Passepied - 1:23:33

ANONYMOUS (arr. Yepes): 11th century Irish March (Brian Boru's March) - 1:27:42

TARREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - 1:33:20

GALILEI (transcr. Yepes): Saltarello - 1:38:35

RUIZ-PIPO: Danza - 1:42:02

Tags:
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About the Yepes 10-string guitar: http://www.tenstringguitar.INFO

Standard tuning of the Yepes ten-string guitar:

7=C2 [lowest string]
8=A#2 / Bb2
9=G#2 / Ab2
10=F#2 / Gb2

***

The legendary Narciso Yepes performs an 80 minute solo recital, plus 25 minutes of encores, on the ten-string guitar of his own conception, at the Teatro Real de Madrid, in 1979. This is without electronic amplification of the guitar, as Yepes always insisted, but with his improved sitting position and revolutionary right hand technique, which, together with his 10-string guitar’s sympathetic resonance, optimize tone quality and projection. (The microphone seen is for the video’s audio recording only, not for amplification.) As one reviewer wrote about another recital:

‘Guitar concerts in Carnegie Hall can be a frustrating affair. Narciso Yepes brought his 10-string invention there last Thursday, and suddenly it was not a problem hearing that instrument in that space.
‘His guitar fills the hall with sound. The musician who plucks it is one of the finest in the world today. The second half of the program was devoted entirely to 20th-century works, an intriguing survey of music – for an apparently limited instrument – that was at once engrossing yet challenging. Of greatest interest were Eduardo Sainz de la Maza’s ”Laberinto,” with its jazzy undercurrent, and Leonardo Balada’s supremely virtuosic, exciting ”Analogias.”
‘Mr. Yepes, who appears to be not much larger than his oversize instrument, is a selfless musician, putting the music before his personality in what could serve as the ideal of any performing artist but so rarely is. One left his recital stimulated and elated, with nary a thought as to the potential limitations of the instrument, dynamically or musically.’

RECITAL PROGRAMME:

KUEHNEL (transcr. Yepes): Suite for 11-course Baroque Lute – 00:00

-Allemande 00:00
-Courante 03:38
-Sarabande 05:00
-Menuet 07:28
-Gigue 09:20

BACH (transcr. Yepes): Sarabande & Double in B minor BWV 1002 – 11:43

-Sarabande 11:43
-Double 15:26

BACH (transcr. Yepes/Enesco): Chaconne in D minor – 18:46

SOR (rev. Yepes): Fantasie Villageoise, op. 52 – 33:38

SOR (rev. Yepes): Variations sur “Marlborough s’en va-t-en guerre”, op. 28 – 42:37

PERIS: Elegia para Gisela (for 10-string guitar) – 48:29

KUCERA: Diary (Homage to Che Guevara) – 55:50

-Day of Love 55:50
-Day of Hate 58:20
-Day of Decision 01:00:27
-Day of Battle 01:02:25
-Day of Death 01:04:25

BROUWER: Tarantos (written for Narciso Yepes) – 01:08:41

VILLA-LOBOS: Etudes – 1:13:14

-Etude no. 1 – 1:13:14
-Etude no. 11 – 1:14:56
-Etude no. 12 – 1:18:32

…ENCORES:

BACARISSE (rev. Yepes): Passepied – 1:23:33

ANONYMOUS (arr. Yepes): 11th century Irish March (Brian Boru’s March) – 1:27:42

TARREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra – 1:33:20

GALILEI (transcr. Yepes): Saltarello – 1:38:35

RUIZ-PIPO: Danza – 1:42:02

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Comments

rkatz0 says:

The most notable things I have always admired about Narciso Yepes is he makes tons of mistakes and gets away with them! He always maintains the feel and posture but makes a lot of mistakes (compared to some others, no names), but they become part of the magic and beauty of it.

Also, I believe to listen to this recital once is most likely some sort of sin….probably requires at least 20 times to get out of the hole!

Takahiro Fukushima says:

イェペスの、まさに全盛期のすばらしいコンサートをこうして観られるのはとても幸せなことです。
何度もイェペスのコンサートに行きましたが、足台を持っていってしまったあとにアンコールに応えるようなことは一度もありませんでした。
今、なんの条件も課さず、心の底からただただ楽しませてくれるギタリストはいなくなってしまいました。このときが永遠に続けばいいのに、とコンサート会場で願ったことを思い出します。
一時期でもイェペスに出会えたことは、僕にとって一生の宝物です。この世界に生まれてきて良かったと思えます。

Informed Mind says:

This music and he's playing is moving

Strings of Peace says:

Bloody el'

Yedie Prilianto says:

AMAZING MIRACLE

Jerry Berndt says:

This music takes me back to my carefree days of young adulthood. Classical music, especially classical guitar, was and still is, a soothing balm to my soul. I know I've posted on here before, but there is something irresistible about Maestro Yepes and his playing. I wonder, who was Yepes teachers?

cyril guthridge says:

Can anyone tell me the name of the piece at the 1:27:50 mark is in English. thanks ahead of time…

pan naa says:

美しい！

Gerardo Dominguez says:

Powerful, creativo, sounds for the spirit, sonidos para el alma.

José Ramón says:

The guitar of 10 strings is not a real guitar.

王玉强 says:

I love him!

Roberto Alexandre says:

This is a great concert; the playing is superb. Yet, the recording quality is abominable; it so reduces Yepes´ wonderful sound to a cigar box. Where are the acustics of this big hall? Yepes´s guitar had a big, full sound,,,and here it sounds like he´s plucking a chicken guitar.
Still, the playing is superb. But one has to imagine what this really was.

The Media says:

I just like to watch how their hands move.

JBRS JUAN RIVEROS SILVA says:

Me gustaría saber dónde se halla la guitarra de diez cuerdas de mi admirado Narciso Yepes y también el modo como pudiera comprar alguna guitarra de esas características. ¿ Pueden ayudarme? Vivo en Madrid. Gracias de antemano; pues para ejecutar adaptado a mi voz el ritmo de habaneras necesito al menos una séptima cuerda afinada en la nota si.

Juan Andrés Unanue Laguna says:

El repertorio es:
0:01 Suite en La Mayor (August Kühnel)
11:43 Zarabanda (Johann Sebastian Bach)
15:26 Double (Johann Senastian Bach)
18:47 Chaconne en Re menor (Johann Sebastian Bach)
33:38 Fantaisie Villegeoise (Fernando Sor)
42:38 Marborough variations (Fernando Sor)
49:57 Elegía para Gisela (José Peris)
55:50 Diary a Che Guevara (Kavlak Kûcera)
1:08:45 Tarantos (Leo Brouwer)
1:13:16 Estudio nº 1 (Heitor Villa Lobos)
1:14:56 Estudio nº 11 (Heitor Villa Lobos)
1:18:30 Estudio nº 12 (Heitor Villa Lobos)
1:23:42 Passepied (Salvador Bacarisse)
1:28:00 Irish March (Narciso Yepes)
1:33:38 Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Francisco Tárrega)

cbislarich65 says:

J' n'en dis pas davantage,
Car en voilà-z-assez. Thanks for the video.

cbislarich65 says:

I know it was a bad joke. I hope you're not Sor about it. But seriously, Yepes was a great player and deserves more recognition.

cbislarich65 says:

He's a jolly good fellow.

Jeanie DeCoster says:

Oh, my goodness, what is the name of the piece that begins at about 1:27? I don't understand Spanish very well, so i cannot tell from his introduction what it might be. Each piece has been beautiful in this concert, but this one is new to me and exquisite! Thanks for any help and info!

Jeanie DeCoster says:

How does one play so many strings??!! It is kind of astounding really!

Jeanie DeCoster says:

Yippee for Yepes! I love him!

Chitarra Classica Italia says:

Very interesting!

ALberto Martinez says:

Stunning technique. Yepes' sonorous tone and strong technique are the marks of a man who is Master of his Instrument. Just brilliant. Thanks for posting.

Brian2116b says:

1:18:33 is when things get reeeeaaaaly badass

Jacksmom710 says:

I play this video almost every night for my son. When he was in my belly I played recuerdos de allhambra thousands of times. He loves it and he is only six. Yepes is phenomenal! An amazing inspiration!