Re: Classical Mandolin solo Videos on YouTube
I can't recall if this player's youtube channel has been posted or not... please excuse me if it has already.
Kozo Onishi
Re: Classical Mandolin solo Videos on YouTube
Not one to blow my own trumpet (so to speak) but as this thread has floated to the top of the pile again......several of you spotted my Diferencias video that I posted on Youtube a few days ago......there are also 3 other videos on there from the same conert......the 4th has just been added.....
Diferencias by our own Victor
Prelude XIV by Calace
Bach's D Minor Gigue
El Duende by Juan Carlos Munoz
My channel is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/alimandolin
Hope you enjoy them.
All the best ALI
:mandosmiley:
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Ali,
Feel free to blow your own trumpet or any other instrument you prefer. Barring seeing you in person, it is a great thing to see you play on the small screen. Keep up the excellent work.
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Yob Culture? A better title might be "Cacophony in 4/4 Time":))
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mandolin and vihuela playing scarlatti:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dbUIKbcweQs
... they have three other videos as well - my guess is they're warm-up exercises: dashing about, up and down the neck, bink-bonk, loud-soft, snuffle-crash-bing-bang-plinkity-plink ... you know.
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Having written already on Ali's YouTube performance of my Diferencias, I must heap unreserved and unlimited praise on the other repertoire she performs as well. Her rendition of the Bach is one of the most (appropriately) dance-like I have EVER heard: jolly, spirited, crisp and clear. A sheer pleasure! :)
The Calace Prelude --too fiendish for Yours Truly to EVER try, even in private-- comes off brilliantly in Ali's far abler hands. I like Calace's music... For as idiosyncratic as it is, it never fails to reach me. My point is that the style is, ah... very Calace-esque, inextricably tied with his own musical persona; for that reason, many love it, others not. Count me among the first group.
Even though it is the player that matters more, of course, I must add what a delight it is to hear Ali's various and sundry instruments. The Olden Plucky Thing sounds SO lovely that, in a dash of madness, I considered MY own eventual need for an Olden Plucky Thing. :grin:
As for the Embergher, well... that instrument is to DIE for!
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I´m so happy to see Ali´s YouTube videos. She´s one of my favourite mandolinists, I love her music, and now it´s possible to SEE her play, too. Thank you so much.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
vkioulaphides
The Olden Plucky Thing sounds SO lovely that, in a dash of madness, I considered MY own eventual need for an Olden Plucky Thing. :grin:
Which is the OPT? The one she plays Bach on?
Quote:
Bach's beautiful Gigue played ona 2008 martin Bowers copy of a 1764 Vinaccia mandolin by Alison Stephens
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The Old Plucky Thing that Victor is referring to is the 1760 Vinaccia (copy). I second Victor's sentiment. That instrument sounds absolutely amazing on the video. Ali performance of Bach is so gorgeous.......this is exactly what I am thinking of when I say that I don't like other (bluegrass) versions of Bach on an F5. Watching that vid of Ali demonstrates how beautiful & musical those pieces can be.
Victor......in regards to "die for" Ali's Embergher........PISTOLS or SWORDS my friend! lol
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I figured by process of elimination that OPT was the one on the Bach. I know Baby and the Beast so I assumed that OPT is Ali's term of endearment for that instrument.
I must have missed or forgot of Ali's annoucement of this acquisition on this thread. She called it Young Vinny in January.
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Hi Jim,
You are right...the vinnie copy is still known as Young Vinnie. The OPT is just a term of endearment for the audience sake.....I believe. Let's hope so....mch better to be known as Young Vinnie than that Old Plucky Thing. lol