F. CHOPIN (arr. F. Tarrega): Nocturne no. 2, op. 9

[@GalaxChongloi]

Can't believe he played that clean and pulled that off live. Massive respect and great playing.

[@emilioromero4811]

😂😂😂😮😮😮😊

[@JW-nq9lc]

Didn’t think guitar could do this piece justice, happy to see I was quite wrong. Incredible job!

[@johnbenbenek6665]

Sound's smooth & textured 🎶

[@lucasramirez2035]

X2

[@SoyluR.Y.]

Every instrument with the capacity of producing the range of said notes is able to be play this song.

[@bmorewisely]

Check out Segovia's performance of Bach's Chaconne for another incredible guitar performance of a masterpiece written for another instrument, the violin.

[@rimmersbryggeri]

I thought only guitar could do this piece justice.

[@kensison]

When life gets too tough and you think it's impossible, remember this video and how clean he played Nocturne 2 Op. 9 on a guitar.

[@sergiogodoy340]

Not even he can be that clean in his own life

[@opoaotoroiocoko]

Meh. 4.5/10. 6/10 at best.

[@parkavim9092]

Yayyyy😂😂😂

[@Lazarusreflexx]

This made me smile and I really needed that today. Thanks.

[@godfreyzilla8608]

@@opoaotoroiocoko : This was a lovely performance. Do you actually believe anyone cares what you think about it? We do not need or appreciate any more negativity in these times so please keep your poison to yourself.

[@sonzaishinai2307]

It sounds like it was composed for guitar honestly, well done beautiful interpretation

[@hell_o_world101]

Well, Chopin was magician. 😂😂

[@lewisnnadz917]

It was actually. It was written by Frederick Chopin and arranged for guitar by Francisco de Asís Tárrega. Its in the title.

[@bradywalton9830]

Tarrega is only of the greatest guitarists who lived so makes sense

[@diegojimenez15]

So guitars and piano are the most completly instruments for composing music

[@joelpedersen6962]

@@lewisnnadz917 That isn't really correct. It was not composed for the guitar, however the arrangement of the composition made by Francisco was made for the guitar.

[@Willowhealingcenterconcierge]

Let's not forget this was in front of a live audience. Seemingly calm,cool and collected. Just beautifully played.

[@therainman7777]

Incredible professionalism.

[@TheGreatWhiteMunch]

It always blows my mind when a human being dedicates itself 100% to a very specific thing and masters it. Astonishing!

[@scripted44]

Classical guitar is really something

[@cuppntea]

Indeed

[@1994savvas]

It really feels like it plays pieces that should not be possible on it. So amazing

[@loganfruchtman953]

So sleepy

[@marstyracat]

Sitting alone on my bed on a cold and relaxing Christmas night. Accompanied by the warmth of a few pillows, my favorite hoodie, and the heat of the laptop on my lap. Whilst holding a cup of coffee with one hand, the other one clicked on this video. Listening to the arrangement; Ahh, tranquility.

[@franko740]

:)

[@nasanjargalbinderiya8531]

❤❤❤

[@therainman7777]

Sounds lovely, but drinking coffee at night? 😂

[@2pacalypse93]

@@therainman7777 if u mad enjoying some spiritual and creative nocturnal spliffs, dead sure coffee at night.

[@BradlyRimmerson]

Gayest comment ever

[@beastinthesky6774]

As a guitarist and a Chopin appreciator: wow, that was wonderful. Thank you for arranging and playing this!

[@the.one37]

man didn't tarrega arrange this

[@beastinthesky6774]

@@the.one37 lol good call thanks

[@blackpoolram]

Absolutely astounding. Such clarity and resonance.

[@chrisscanlon3717]

No need for mask and he is missing his foot rest! Unacceptable!

[@lourdesmorales9549]

Gran Chopin. Su música en todos los instrumentos musicales

[@axernot]

as a guitarist myself, fingerstyle scares me. I will never be able to pull of something like this, but I have massive respect to folks such as yourself who have immense dedication and passion to be able to play on a level like this. Beautiful❤

[@reconmonkey7]

It's stuff like this that makes me really appreciate classical guitar.

[@bernardadamuswieden4290]

Chopin, Polak, który zdobył świat. Dziękuję.

[@sanderh4600]

Didn't even know a guitar could sound like that, just beautiful.

[@farahmay8052]

Just out of this world... I am a Grade 8 pianist from the Associated Board of Music London and swear I could not play this on the piano any better than this... Bravo ❤

[@dyamariwan9161]

I can’t imagine how much practice it took to be this perfect , thank you so much for your performance ,I just started learning guitar and i hope someday ill be able to play this elegantly 😊🩶

[@pianoman551000]

I love the additional cadenza beginning at 4:06. It's very original and, yet, stays true to Chopin's thematic statement in the original composition for solo piano. Indeed, he is a very talented musician!!

[@deatheagle1998]

its hard to put it into words, but this piece gives off the feeling of something lost, an emotion or a skill, or a friend long past gone. I listened to this piece when i was feeling low and immediately i was resonating with it. I'm at a point in my life where i have so many opportunities and so much to do, yet i have no idea what to do. i keep having this feeling that i should make something. that i should create music, write a short story or maybe even start a podcast. but when i bring myself to do it, that feeling quickly turns into "what's the point". why do i bother creating this? and i try and answer that question but i always fall short. I'm surrounded by people that have accomplished so much in their life, and who are so much better than me, and I look at them and i ask myself "how am i different?". the answer is, I'm not. i have no special skills. I'm just average in every way and it makes me sad. i want to be better, i need to be better. but I don't know how. and there's no point telling any of this to my friends because, while they are good people, I don't need people telling me "its ok" or "you are special" or shit like that. i just want to become better, and I fear its something that I can only achieve alone. i dunno, just thought i'd vent to the internet while listening to this amazing piece.

[@chrisacres]

You don’t ‘need’ to be better than anyone. Find contentment in what you have. No one else has it. Don’t feel pushed by society to ‘do something’. Do things that make you happy and only because YOU want to do them. Live the life you want to live not the life you feel you should be living based on what your friends and peers are doing. Be happy man.

[@officialkingcash]

gave me chills reading this.. it’s like these words could be written by myself

[@sevabaratchodhri5893]

I get it brother " why should I get better, why try so hard" afterall what's the point of it all, right? The only answer is just another question "why not?!"

[@uba2]

keep searching for something that really jazzes you

[@user-lk8ep6nh1u]

Lmao you wrote all that on a KZbin comment section… what’s fcking loser go out and do life

[@Nation16]

The tone is just... wow. So impressed.

[@t3d0_0]

I remember listening to this as a little kid. It gave me a strange feeling of sadness and happiness at once. I didn't know what it was. Now I know that I was sad because my parents were about to split up, but my childly consciousness wasn't able to really comprehend the situation. Now I live in another country with my mom and younger brother. I only get to see my father in video calls, my brother and I can only travel to him rarely. I've never really talked to someone about it. My father and me both know that we've been missing out on the chance of participating in one another's life. But here I am, trying to be the best version of myself. I'm like this piece of music is to me, sad and happy at the same time...

[@clementinverse]

This piece is known as the « Farewell waltz » Chopin composed it for a girl he loved but her parents didn’t want them to marry because he was poor.

[@annalyman2616]

Such a highly skilled wonderful interpretation!

[@caavalca]

i was not expecting to like this as much as i did. chills as soon as he started playing. a very different vibe than the original but equally beautiful

[@EbokGamer]

Man, your playing is something all musicians aspire to have and not many can achieve it. Bravo.

[@marcpatton5207]

I think this piece works best on guitar when you can produce a really clean tone. And I think you nailed it!

[@incognitojon902]

Naaa not at all

[@dann6067]

@@incognitojon902 jealous much?

[@nearo007]

@@dann6067 jealous of what? is just an opinion lol

[@cuppntea]

@@incognitojon902 itll be great if theres a kind of duet between Classical and Piano🤓😊

[@dapperfob6194]

@@dann6067 haha butthurt amateur

[@internetuser2291]

The dynamics here is Perfect.

[@SethWadeMelancon]

That cadenza you took at the end blew my mind! Superb arrangement and world class playing. As far as I’m concerned, you OWN this piece.

[@justicegusting2476]

Very well done. That’s a first for me…hearing Chopin on a guitar…and it didn’t disappoint.

[@kazu934]

Wow, got chills listening to your playing. The tone, the dynamics, the vibrato, the clean playing, it was all there. Thank you for sharing this with the world!

[@FilippoFazio93]

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[@jklangley9329]

For me (personally) it's more difficult learn a song and play it correctly in a guitar more than a piano, that's why I loved to see a person which can play this piece at perfection without mistakes.

[@allantravers9311]

Totally agree - show me a piano that has all the nuances like vibrato, beautiful round tones over the sound hole, sharp/thin tones near the bridge and of course don't forget note bending and harmonics etc. - SO BEAUTIFULLY PLAYED

[@jponz85]

You guys cant be real lol. Playing piano and playing 6+ notes/chords at the same time will always surpass a guitar that is limited in terms of playing many notes at the same time. Sure it sounds phenomenal, but over a grand piano? Yea, no.

[@Lalaaw]

@@jponz85Guitar is the most versatile musical instrument for me :))

[@ronnibagio]

Guitaris can play piano's skill but not pianist cant play guitar cz guitar have a angel finger

[@lorcanmcgrane8379]

@@ronnibagioI mean yea of course guitarists can probably play basic piano pieces but when you get to the technically advanced pieces they just wouldn’t be able to unless they’ve put in the thousands of hours of practise. The same goes for the guitar of course, but you can’t make a comparison that pieces are easier to learn on the piano because it all comes down to the piece. There are many pieces that are easier to play on the piano and then many which are much harder. And in my opinion, which may be wrong, the hardest pieces on the piano are significantly more difficult then the most difficult on the guitar. If you look at some of Liszt’s pieces they are inhuman and no matter how much you practise the majority of people will never be able to play them.

[@nickparsons337]

Your adoration of the piece you're playing really shines through in your performance of it. Willfully, masterfully; played. Well done.

[@Lizik]

The semicolon there makes no sense

[@AdityaGunawan30]

I keep coming back to this video because this is the best rendition of Nocturne op.9, no.2 on a guitar! Bravo!

[@dosterix6034]

Wow we can really be glad that people like Tarrega existed to bring that magical piano piece to the guitar. I still really love the original piano version but when you hear the piece played like in this example, by an excellent player and with the golden timbre of the guitar, it feels like you are getting the same thoughts you had when you listened to the piece for the first time

[@jos4653]

쇼팡이 이 연주를 들으면 ~~미소 지을거 같네요....와 너무 좋아요.

[@bmxfreakxyo]

I’m just as amazed that these musicians can remember the whole piece let alone play it.

[@SorenPenrose]

Memorizing is the easy part. We don't play this stuff 24/7 because we are _mildly_ interested in it. Once you have it performance ready, it's pretty much like listening to the perfect interpretation of your favorite songs because there's no point where you wish the performer interpreted something a specific way you want to hear it. Like that cadenza he threw in there. I play Chopin for that very reason sometimes.

[@wolfganghendery8298]

Muscle memory.

[@samiramokarian7959]

@@SorenPenrose honestly as a guy who just stared to learn it like 30 minutes ago I tried sight reading it honestly it wasnt that difficult but memorizing every note is a nightmare

[@Sidguru101]

@@samiramokarian7959 learnt to play 30 minutes ago? Or classical music? If you're talking about learning guitar first time and you managed to sight read than that's a 🧢

[@therainman7777]

@@Sidguru101Obviously he’s not talking about learning guitar for the first time 🤦‍♂️ If he was a total novice he wouldn’t even be able to read the music.

[@daanvandervliet8929]

Bravo, fantastic playing. wonderful timing. thank you

[@jaimepadilla1537]

Hermosa y magnífica interpretación en guitarra de esta bella melodía de Frederick Chopin. Felicidades a este excelente guitarrista.

[@mightyluv]

My favorite piano piece so beautifully done on guitar. Bravo!

[@faradigiorgio6019]

I remember hearing this as a small child. I feel the same sense of awe decades later. Thank you.

[@ava-bf8mk]

literally the most mesmerizing guitar performance i’ve ever witnessed

[@othoncesar215]

Wow! What an arrangement! And it takes a lot of courage to perform this one. Congratulations!

[@bashigoltsoult4148]

Increíble interpretación para guitarra, muy hermoso como suena

[@justamanchimp]

I think in the entire history of human kind this is literally THE most beautiful and well composed music ever made, like, literally, hands down, no one has topped it since

[@bm8584]

Fantástico el arreglo de Francisco Tárrega. Excelente interpretación y grandiosa obra de Chopin. ¡Bravo a los tres!

[@same5songseveryday]

WHAT??? ive been watching video of this all over youtube from the best guitarists and this is the best rendition ive ever seen. even tops Brandon Acker's.

[@catherinepastuszek1517]

Simply beautiful! Sounds so natural on the classical guitar.

[@Raposa_Descobre]

Odličen video! Od vseh, kar sem jih videl, je bila to najboljša akustična verzija!

[@ILIAD9]

Alright...stop it...that is outstanding guitar playing. Outstanding!

[@ahmadnaser8192]

I played this video so I can have something in the background while I read a chapter in a book. All of a sudden the performance was over and I snapped out of a deep reverie and realized that not a single sentence or word was read. Amazing performance! Flawless.

[@eenayeah]

Wow, perfectly played and BRILLIANT audio!

[@kylesells8579]

human is machine. its madness to know he played this clean.

[@majdydanaf6479]

Trully amazing! Thank you for sharing your talent with us 👏

[@Ndk367]

El final es terriblemente impresionante, aplausos de pié genio😭😭😭 la dinamica y dulzura de las ultimas notas gracias

[@rosendosolesainz5059]

Great Valentin Novak!!!💎🎯👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@jbuell311]

One of my favorite things about Chopin was his tone and volume control while playing. He knew the exact emphasis to put on every note. You replicated this very well. Simply amazing.

[@manoslibres1899]

Bellisimo e increíblemente llevada a la guitarra felicitaciones!!

[@aazreaal]

God must be very happy with himself knowing music like this would spring forth from his creations.

[@david.thomas.108]

This is a virtuoso level masterpiece, enthralled!

[@iancordova8459]

Tiempo y esfuerzo con talento = perfección

[@ordinarykitkat]

Wow, what a beautiful performance. It sounds so nice on guitar, I love it!

[@collinjow5955]

I bet Chopin has learned the guitar after watching this piece from heaven too. Sublime. You and that mop of hair is lost in your own little world up there on stage. Bravo!

[@recuerdos2457]

👏👏The clarity and the dynamic ❤️💙💕💛💚

[@hathsin9675]

been a while since a piece has brought me to tears. this was nice.

[@henrydoake6659]

I listen to these on piano all the time. This guitar performance is amazing!

[@kenpeters9807]

OUTSTANDING! UNBELIEVABLE!

[@krzysztofkornatowicz9505]

ZNAKOMICIE! CZYSTO, MELODYCZNIE, PIĘKNIE - GRATULACJE!

[@animefanarts158]

Wow... this is... I just can't put in words how wonderful this is. Such beauty, the sound, that nostalgia inside the melody... Everything was perfectly represented in this... Congratulations for such a magnificent work.

[@ManuelTavares]

Fantastic interpretation! BRAVO!

[@polar906]

Wow, playing to perfection a piece of music that it is not even composed for guitar ... and doing it live! Truly amazing! Thank you for sharing it.

[@GiantParfait]

This feels so different from the original. But, in a great way. Thank you so much for letting us hear this wonderful performance. For me the original feels wistful but tragic or bittersweet. I listen to it often. For me this rendition feels more like a conversation, it's nostalgic, like I'm outside in the romantic countryside somewhere, at a small but long standing café or restaurant, sitting at a table by the open window or maybe outside. The sun is setting, the sky is ablaze in color and as the song plays just within my hearing I softly talk with my partner, my beloved, and we hush midway, to simply listen and share the moment. Ah. What a lovely dream.

[@alejandroordazzo6331]

Muy buena interpretación, con unos floreos maravillosos y un toque sublime !!!!

[@donaldaxel]

The warmth of your tone, Novak, is the most beautiful I have long heard, it's like Segovia luring different colors from the instrument. Tarrega's arrangements are often really cool, really fantasticly to the point - and in this piece I wouldn't have thought it possible, but Tarrega "nailed it", adding fiorituri suited for the guitar, much to the fullfilment of Chopin's intentions. Still, I love the piece on piano as well, if it is a good instrument (with the same ability to color the tones - not all pianos can do that, you need una corde and soft hammers).

[@龙源探索]

Someone had this gifted artist a comb! Absolutely outstanding and beautiful performance. 👍👍

[@comentarstasincero]

pelo jeito dele pegar no violão, já se nota que é um músico espetacular

[@markosterman419]

Thank you so much … I really needed to hear that this morning.

[@luizabdo5397]

Que maravilha de execução! Parabéns aqui do Brasil 🇧🇷.

[@j-dub8399]

Breathtaking! I always thought Tarrega had a Chopinesque flair to him but had never heard of this arrangement.

[@emilysilva8472]

Incrível! Me emocionei, lindo demais 🥺❤️

[@justintoland3225]

Beautiful.

[@ignaciorosquete3135]

FABULOUS ………,.👏

[@melodiejohnston9528]

Brought tears to my eyes. Each note resonated with every fibre of my being and then melted into my soul. Rhapsody, such a pure, pristine performance. Thank you.

[@Cynic269]

God bless youtube's recommend for this one. amazing performance

[@rodrigosuarez586]

This piece hits different and your interpretation of it is beautiful. So great, awesome job 👌

[@djangostan]

unbelievable ...beautiful..just made my Friday night, sat here listening with a dram

[@scottknapp8984]

Like Albeniz, Chopin translates so well for the guitar. This is a perfect example. Bravo!

[@andysutton6436]

Just brilliant. So clean, accurate and polished. Andy

[@pousadacasaregina189]

Bravo,muito bom!

[@rondanorris5504]

Absolutely Beautiful. I came across this video somehow, and happy I stumbled upon it. Bravo, well done monsieur.

[@nilmarpinheiro3613]

Lindo demais

[@cristianmontesdeoca6846]

Best performance of this wonrderful piece on KZbin. Correct speed, expression and technique. Congrats, you're an amazing guitarrist.

[@andrebezerra1932]

Magnífico, bravissimo 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@JavierPerez-yt3vm]

Maravilla Maravilla

[@flavioqueiroz2497]

Sem palavras ! Lindo

[@spoders92]

Virtuosic playing. Beautifully done

[@ricardopaes1844]

Belíssimo!!!

[@FilippoFazio93]

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[@Stainpuke]

The sheet music and inspiration no one could do! The control was epic , Chopin would be very proud!

[@ey_charles]

Wow! Great arrangement.

[@beancate]

i live and breathe for this interpretation

[@VPoytstr]

Круто, неожиданное переложение! Исполнитель на высоте ! Продолжительные аплодисменты, браво !

[@RAMMY237]

One of my favorite classical pieces. You make it look so easy and fluent, pure joy to listen! Special thanks to Mr.Tarrega for a flawless arrangement :)

[@isaque9534]

Que maravilhosa, cada dedilhado tem um som único, digno das composições de Chopin, saudoso Chopin....

[@山本和弘-p1d]

ピアノの名曲が、とても、ギターの音にあって、ロマンチックです。よかったです。