La Catedral - Barrios original playing restored video free download

Mark Harris

Man this boy could play ! Velocity is astounding ! Glitch-less to boot ! !

Joe Ott

Un virtuoso en el más amplio sentido de la palabra.

Julio Franco

Indescriptible...y pensar que esto no tuvo oportunidad de ser retocado sino que fue grabado de una, ademas que las cuerdas, dicen los entendidos, eran de acero...Barrios, el mejor compositor y guitarrista de la historia...muchos compositores son incapaces de interpretar su propia obra...

Yasen Kalchev

BEST VERSION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pedro Gabriel Pérez Quintana

¡Cuánto me emociona!

Thomas Friedrich

You have to have attempted to record yourself to understand how bad a bad recording can make you sound. So much is lost here, despite the hard work to restore. We're talking about low grade equipment to start with, and aged tape, etc... You have to use your imagination here. I'm detecting a high level of expressiveness. Some of the technical fumbles I think are accentuated by the fact that certain frequencies just didn't get recorded, or deteriorated in the tape. I'm also hearing a slip in pitch during the fast bit that sounds bad, but it's the tape slipping or shifting or whatever, not Barrios. My impression is that there are players today who can really 'shred' this music, but I'm hearing that Barrios would give them a run for their money, and that 'live' his playing was extraordinarily dynamic and expressive.

Yuri Stremel

Agustin Barrios plays faster and cuts some parts of the song probably because of the primitive method of recording at the time. Wax cylinders can record only around 4 or 5 minutes of sound. Still great interpretation! I wish I could have seen him playing the whole music on a theater.

Snowfire Sunwind

How anyone could compose such a beautiful composition as this always amazes me - what a genius Barrios was.

Joel Salazar

So many people think that composers interpretation of their own music has to be the best. This is simply not the case: most classical music masterpieces were created by composers whose main instrument was not the one the piece was written for. Even when it was, great composers weren't always the best instrument players of their time, let alone for the rest of time. Even Rachmaninoff, one of the greatest piano players in history, conceded that Horowitz played his music better that himself, Chopin said the same about Liszt and so on. Barrios must have been great at the guitar for his time, but composers and most trained musicians can hear the music they write in their minds, without the need of an instrument, and he must have known how it would have sounded if he, or the instrument had not have the limitations that are now so clear, and that other instruments/players didn't have at the time. He will be remembered as what he will always be: a great composer. No so much a guitar player.

Yuliboe Vatser

Barrios Mangoré... The Mozart of the Guitar.

rtorresvazquez

Increible y maravilloso....gracias

XPhantomLord

this is a great work, you saved a Barrios original recording! thank you!

umovilac

Gracias Roberto, buen trabajo. Mangoré Increíble, un deleite.

sam titus

The differenece between this play and the modern ones is that this is the autor and not the interpretThe differenece between genious and talentuous

Noud Koevoets

The problem with these older recordings is that you loose dynamics, the guitar almost sounds like a toy….BUT listen carefully and you will hear Barrios knows exactly what he is doing and the Andante Religiosodeserves an even further restoring! And above all: Please let us not forget that there was no internet,not any competition, not that many means to develop yourself and yet writing this wonderful music.Simply great and also his playing still holds up: no reverb, no equalizing - try that yourself at first!

Ylda nuñez

uffffffff tremendo!!!manos magicas...

Lawrence Ballack

monkeyface

dustinjonesguitarist

I remember John William's 1994 recording was the first I heard; but when I heard Denis Azabagić's recording years later I thought his Allegro Solemne was too fast - until I just heard Barrios play it. I 100% agree with the various comments about Barrios' recording and playing being superior to modern player's. No editing, raw, emotive. This is the way music used to be before we could make perfect, edited recordings. You just had to get your crap together and practice! I absolutely love how raw these old school guys were. 

Howard Frischer

wow you can here the gut strings so amazing

Tondi Fernando

STOP STUPID COMMENTS& SHUT UP He was Legendary who ever lived. Just enjoy his original composition. I also can tell play better than him, but until now I unable to make composition such like he did, I learn so much from him. To compensate his productivity & beauty harmonies. You must learn to make differences between The Composer & The Imitator. :)

Agustin Barrios

Agustin Barrios - Choro de saudade