JORGE CABALLERO - Franz Liszt Sonata & Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition on Classical Guitar

[@antoniorioseco1539]

Jorge Caballero, el gran Virtuoso de la guitarra llega a alturas inconcebibles a través de este sensacional trabajo en torno a Liszt y su gigantesca Sonata! Caballero debe ser el más grande guitarrista actual, de un nivel donde sólo habitan los grandes del arte! Hasta el más crítico pianista se rendirá ante esta magistral versión en seis cuerdas! Toda mi admiración para Jorge! Bravísimo!!

[@MichaSloman]

Is there anyone in the world today that can play a guitar as well as Jorge Caballero? I doubt it. In my opinion he is a genius.

[@raffitorossian6994]

Mr Caballero in an incredible attist with super technic and nuance.

[@SiccasGuitars]

He is indeed! Did you also see his concert we published last week? It's mind-blowing really.

[@MehAwake]

Oh man, I never thought I’d enjoy a version of that Liszt sonata more than Horowitz playing. This was incredible, sir. Freaking bravo.

[@dariofernandez3854]

Ha logrado la difícil expresión de la limpia fuerza provocadora de Liszt... Excelente MAESTRO !!!🇺🇾❤️🎼🎶❤️

[@juanarroyo3948]

Jorge Caballero es mi compatriota (Peruano) y no lo digo por presumir pero creo que actualmente es el mejor guitarrista clasico del mundo. Por muchas cosas aparte de lo extraordinario de su tecnica, su musicalidad no lo tienen todos. Un abrazo Jorge desde Lima - Perú

[@antoniorioseco1539]

Pienso exactamente lo mismo! El más grande actual! Una musicalidad y mecánica y control de un nivel dios… orgullo del Perú!

[@oscargamboa5403]

Woow. I'm speechless. What an amazing performance and artist! Huge! What an inspiration to play and make music! Grande, grande !

[@BrakeJiggs]

Great sound! Caballero is such a technical master, since hearing the b minor berg sonata and other amazing transcriptions I’ve been hooked. Sicca, thank you for your investment in making all of your content lately.

[@eloysantillanlopez7833]

Bravo Jorge! Esto es el fruto de tu amor por la música, tu dedicación, y perseverancia. Seguramente, nos seguirás asombrando con tu enorme talento. Tus arreglos meticulosos e insuperables constituyen un gran aporte para la humanidad, especialmente para los aficionados a la guitarra. Larga vida, Maestro!

[@cliffordzinnes4015]

You need to record this on a CD.

[@martinsilvey9551]

Genius! It is an honor we are able to witness such greatness. Thank You

[@gennadiypilch3662]

Fantastic! Excellent, incredible peformance! It is really amazing playing and transciption!!! Bravo, Jorge Caballero! 👍👍👍

[@larrydean4433]

His playing is beyond comment, so much language in his tones, reminds me of Bream or Segovia.

[@FVGmtbadventures]

Indeed, but I hardly believe the two legends had a technical prowess comparable to the one of M. Caballero

[@venice9438]

I can't believe it, the sonata in b minor on guitar. What a performance!!

[@dallasbatchy]

My 2nd favourite version. Amazing! Kazuhito Yamashita would be impressed I'm sure.

[@cliffordzinnes4015]

OMG, these are spine-tingling performances.

[@Timeismyrelative]

Dang Jorge! You've gotten so much better

[@infinitefretboard]

I never thought that Liszt would work on solo guitar, but wow! Very effective!

[@cliffordzinnes4015]

The sound of your guitar is perfect for this repertoire.

[@johnely5050]

Excellent playing and an amazing transcription for guitar of one of the great piano sonatas.

[@ClassicalGuitarMusings]

Legendary guitarist

[@spmoran4703]

A superb concert. Thank you.

[@raskaan2006]

Mükemmel teknik . Mükemmel yorum.

[@markcritchley9663]

Incredible memory and a beautiful tone in the" Romantic" parts .Not normally the type of classical guitar music i'd listen to but I enjoyed it . Thank's

[@eddywidjaja6432]

Bravissimo Maestro ❤❤❤

[@Tonrralbo]

Increíble lo bueno que toca la guitarra

[@chindy28]

Wow que maravilla que se pueda escuchar esta obra en la guitarra. Increíble. !!!!!!

[@verdial1]

Sorprendente y brillante guitarrista. ¡Me quito el sombrero! De un guitarrista clásico aficionado de Madrid

[@javierminder9447]

Increible como dura 1 hora solo para tocar 3 obras

[@cliffordzinnes4015]

Tremendous arrangements. Bravo.

[@jasonramos6807]

Give him all the prizes, he won!

[@ИгорьГригорьев-з8п]

Браво, маэстро!

[@bobmeyers186]

I've heard the Liszt Sonata transcribed for Orchestra, but never thought for guitar it was possible

[@jazzraff2701]

Jorge Caballero es el nuevo mejor guitarristas del mundo

[@JefferySams-z3p]

Thanx for inspiring Jeff to continue playing😮

[@mauriziopalma7363]

Sono senza parole

[@rickluk-gaming301]

Exciting

[@scottkleyla7752]

Very far out & chic

[@garymcaleer6112]

Excellent transcriptions. Only the great masters of guitar & piano address all of life's experiences of love, hate, pleasure & pain, often within a single composition. Thank you, Siccas Guitars for this special music on this Sabbath day.

[@andresdelossantos18]

Felicitaciones Jorge , in guitarrista fabuloso 👏👏👏

[@odinecampillo811]

Extraordinario guitarrista.

[@UMoeThantKyaw]

Bravo🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ucdcrush]

Epic!

[@OlegP882]

I really liked Pictures at an Exhibition both musically and technically.👋👋👋👋

[@FesteringGhoul]

HOLY CRAP!

[@RamiroDeMarino]

La pregunta es: de que planeta vino Jorge Caballero?

[@stephenyatesacoustic]

Why?......................Because it is there! Incredible.

[@quanlethienminh6002]

Waiting for Master Caballero to transcribe Liszt's Dante Sonata!

[@scottkleyla7752]

Go live❤

[@carlogeraci1008]

Ma a cosa serve trascrivere la sonata di Liszt sulla chitarra?

[@loveclaasiclguitar2402]

Pictures at an Exhibition technically incredible. Musically..... not so much I think hearing it once was enough,. Jorge is still an absurdly brilliant classical guitarist regardless

[@scottkleyla7752]

Hey,INDIANA party Labor Day weekend

[@HansenKay-q1h]

Moore George Thompson Timothy Anderson Jeffrey

[@Pacodelrio123]

Kazuhito Yamashita is better, no doubt! Nice rendition but the inovation to play this unplayable piece was by Yamashita !

[@KMT9999]

I agree that Yamashita's rendition is in a different league. But that should not discourage younger generations to try this seemingly unplayable transcription. Caballero deserves much credit.

[@NIKOLAOSAGGELOPOULOS-n6m]

An excellent artist ,but these transcriptions are not working on the guitar and are aesthetically inappropriate .

[@sjlexternisti2315]

Exactly. Caballero is pretty good musician with great technique, but Liszt sonata needs grand piano. Great with Cziffra for example

[@josephmarcello7481]

Is much more involved in your experience of the sonata then you know. Had it been initially introduced on the instrument and your ears had been accustomed in growing up, to the idiomatic sound and texture of the plucked string, rather than the far more mechanical sound of the plunked piano, as the guitar is the only musical instrument other than the harp in which both hands are making direct contact with the sound medium. - you may well have found yourself. Loving the sonata in that sound world, rather than viewing it chauvinistically, as the rightful domain of the piano The ears and brain and nervous system of piano people are far more tough. Skinned than those of the guitar people. While the guitar can indeed rise to brilliant and electrifying decibel levels and intonational nuances, it often inhabits a far more subtle realm than that is the keyboard. The piano come even at its most peoniesimo cannot begin to arrival the gossom retextures of the guitar, never mind. The almost ethereal tone colors of the harmonic spectrum of which it is capable. And so, in listening to classical guitar music, it is my experience that my penistic friends are rather obtuse and insensitive to what's actually going on, because their calloused ears are waiting for the big explosive delivery that will break through their neurological musculature. When in fact, if you continuing listening to enough contemporary classical guitar, you will begin to develop the feminine side of your listening spectrum, and you'll be able to delight in ranges of volume and nuance that lie South of the sound equator, perfectly designed for its super subtle capabilities. List himself was a great transcriber, amongst whose transcriptions are hundreds of works, perhaps foremost among them, Beethoven's 9th symphonies. Symphonies. He was also a great improviser and a great musical Grand Central station to whom composers such as brahm's would come to have their works , even orchestral works, performed. Instantaneously by him at site. He would not have minded one bit that his sonata, his one true masterpiece, had been transliterated from the keyboard to the fretboard, or that a few octave transpositions or doublings had been made or revoiced. Quite a while, and then come back to the piece with beginner's mind, as if you have never heard it before. Then you will actually be listening rather than judging.

[@sjlexternisti2315]

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[@josephmarcello7481]

Oh critically astute friend, Do you not realize that all your assessments are based purely upon conditioning and nothing else? As one who came of age in the 1960s majoring in classical guitar, I and my guitar fellows in the various music departments of the world encountered the same bias which still reigns in pianistically chauvinistic brains today, that these notes are somehow reserved for a keyboard instrument, which nonetheless, ultimately relies upon strings, weather struck or plucked for their ultimate sounding. Is this not ironic to you? One merely has to hearken back to Chopin who had said, ' nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar, except the sound of two of them," and he, the most chauvinistic of piano chauvinists.. But he knew a beautiful tone and a marvelous new sound world, when he heard it. Had you happen to have grown up in an environment in which many of the contemporary classics for keyboard or orchestra were performed first and consistently on the guitar, your brain and therefore your emotional system would have had no excuse by which to castigate a guitar performance. But you were breastfed and suckled on keyboard, music and have locked into your consciousness certain caveats which are purely arbitrary in nature. For instance, it is virtually impossible, in listening to various of many works by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on the guitar, to tell which of them emerged from his repertoire for the lute, the harpsichord or even orchestra, because his art was largely of a linear contraptal nature and sounds equally powerful and beautiful on the guitar as it does on the keyboard. We assume you have no reservations about all of the harpsichord or clavichord music of his era now being played on the grand piano.. an instrument which could be said to be aesthetically inappropriate for his art, , no? It will take a while, but if you're sincere and as open-minded as you like to believe, you will be able to cure yourself of this. Needless affliction. Merely reflect upon the fact that, as Stravinsky said, " the guitar does not sound small... It sounds from afar,' because there is distance and silence within its sound space. So then, like the piano and the harp, the guitars sound issues from the vibrating string, as it also does from the string family, albeit most of the time bowed. All right, we can agree on the vibrating strings. Next, the guitar and its sister, the harp are the most demanding and vulnerable of instruments because unlike all other instruments, the instrumentalists fingers are in direct contact with the sound medium, which is certainly not true of the keyboard, for which there is no real cure. In terms of the intimacy, tenderness and nuance which is lost. True, the pedal can do wonderful things, but nothing can approach the sound sensitivity and exquisite delicacy of an instrument in which the performer controls all aspects of the sound medium. Reflect upon this for a while, if you would. Then, if you can get past your judgmental reaction, listen to nothing but the guitar for a period of weeks. If you can bring yourselves to do that, until it's deeper subtleties and beauties unfural before your ears, which will finally lead to the cure of what ails you.. The purely subjective, almost whimsical notion that there are genres and styles, composers and eras, which are supposedly ' aesthetically inappropriate' for this sounding board of plucked beauty. What you are, in all probability, railing against is that you are not hearing your beloved old music the same way that you are used to hearing it. We are not hearing the clangerous and percussive passion of Liszt The way we are used to hearing it on the piano keyboard. There, it dominates us, overwhelms us, hurls itself at us, makes the room vibrate with its declamatory power. The guitar is asking us to listen more closely, to move in on it, to focus within and to sense it as opposed to simply being struck by it. Can you do that? Can you expand your hearing to penetrate the sometimes impressionistic or elusive world of the guitar? True, it is far less. Bombastic then the keyboard version, but also far more evocative, feminine, subtle than a pianist could ever evoke. If you wish to grow further, aesthetically, musically, spiritually, you will suspend judgment and begin to learn a new language until it becomes natural to you. Otherwise, you will just be delaying your evolution by sheer stubbornness

[@jimmyelderflower8611]

Joseph Marcello- thanks. A great message. Peace.

[@viktorsincic8039]

I'm glad Andrew Tate seems to have had a personal renaissance in prison, he's astonishing at guitar now!

[@Navportxl]

What reference are you trying to make? I don’t get it.

[@GeVictor]

An extraordinary classical guitarist that no play music compost originally to guitar. This is very sad.

[@TheWorldisALie007]

Why us this sad

[@scottkleyla7752]

Some,like me,have no "ear", I love the sounds but must repeat from written scores,sad yes but so HAPPY😅

[@mercadopulgas-he6nz]

Talento peruano a gran escala! Maestro Caballero, you nailed this presentation

[@bobyspassky6519]

Caballero is incredible. He's not my favorite guitarist because he seeks out pieces that present some kind of challenge to him, which leads to an absurd degree of difficulty, but they're not beautiful. I hope my words don't offend anyone, but I can't like Liszt. To my uneducated ears, he sounds like a bunch of notes with no connection whatsoever.

[@aaronaragon7838]

Nobody around here cares what you don't like or like...

[@markcritchley9663]

@@aaronaragon7838 I do Aaron

[@Timeismyrelative]

The b minor sonata is not a simple piece to listen to and may require a few listens to come to appreciate, from my humble perspective

[@kratospchbus7625]

@@aaronaragon7838 I do Aaron

[@ThiagoCP]

⁠@@aaronaragon7838I care a lot about what bobyspassky6519 like and don't like