Laura Snowden - Britten's Nocturnal Op. 70 (Performance)

[@JCroozy]

Laura Snowden is probably one of the best matches for this piece. Tremendous performance!

[@NinHarris]

My jar has dropped to the floor and needs to be scraped off it now. Amazing. I am in awe.

[@hearddg]

What a wonderful rendition of this piece i have struggled with, just beautiful, thank you

[@josdurkstraful]

Laura this is perfection in it's purest form.... everything: the music, your way of playing it, the setting in the composer's house, the camera work and even you yourself, what a delight to watch and listen to this video! I am deeply impressed.

[@markbratcher9095]

Very expressive, expansive in it's employment of dynamics and timbre, yet always under control. Awesome execution and technique. Possibly my new favorite guitarist.

[@samkirkhammusic]

This is outstanding. Laura really brings out the depths in this piece - she is such a special musician.

[@CRAEager]

Some very educational shots of Snowden's superb right-hand technique here. Thank you!

[@squaresunmusic]

Movements: I. Musingly (0:26) II. Very agitated (2:57) III. Restless (3:52) IV. Uneasy (5:47) V. March-like (7:16) VI. Dreaming (8:51) VII. Gently rocking (11:15) VIII. Passacaglia (12:53) *Slow and quiet (17:36)

[@tradresonance777]

Laura holy smokes!! I’m working on this piece right now and what an inspiration you are. Those cross-string runs on the first two bars of ‘Very Agitated’ - brilliant. Thank you for making this, I’m on the floor.

[@cameronscottcairney8852]

Really glad I landed on this. Loving this playing of nocturnal.

[@Francheska-Andres]

Laura, always making magic!

[@hongteeguitar]

Wonderful! Wonderful! Loved it, both music interpretation and videography !

[@violonista3]

Laura Snowden is a step forward in guitar history... many thanks for this recording.

[@erict1917]

Loved your performance.

[@musinKanto]

Pure poetry! What a drive!

[@RoyceLopez777]

Wow! No words! Such an Ethereal performance.

[@carminedemarco]

I am just floored. I've loved the Noctural for decades. This rendition just blew me away. Apologies to Julian Bream, but this version....wow.

[@JohnDoe-dh8xc]

She’s a student of his. He would be proud Id hope.

[@sebastiansullivan4770]

Hmm do you think it is so much better than bream's. Honestly I'm having trouble seeing how they compare.

[@SkeletalBasis]

She worked intensively with him on the piece. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3ibq6mJjK1rfsU

[@sebastiansullivan4770]

@@SkeletalBasis I know. I think it was just so different from his version that I didn't really get it at first. I'm happy to say that it grew on me after a few listens.

[@BeauJames59]

Such a cool piece....done very well, Miss Laura.

[@Apeshower]

When I first heard this music it was in Julian breams masterclass. I wasn’t that fond of the piece but i have since watched that video a few times now because I find his mater classes fascinating. Weirdly this music has become more interesting to me and this is a great recital of it. It’s a cool piece. Very atmospheric

[@dingadang]

Tremendous. Videography was nearly half as tremendous. Which is saying a lot!!

[@Adrian-v7y8e]

Compelling from start to finish. Sublime music, superbly played. Brava.

[@RayTutajjr]

No one plays this piece better than Sharon Isbin. Every performer brings something to this masterpiece and it can be appreciated. But Sharon's virtuosity is at the highest level. I have played classical guitar for over 40 years and listened to many great names in the classical guitar world. Julian Bream's interpretation of the piece written for him by Benjamin Britten is great too, but if you want to hear this piece done at the highest level of performance it is Sharon Isbin. Listen and you will know what I mean. The video above is excellent and her rendition is the way she feels it and that's okay. Very nice. I would bet that Laura has heard Sharon's recording and used it as a model. Great job.

[@BlackWhirlies]

Very well played.

[@Michajeru]

Beautiful!

[@leonardopalacios]

BRAVO!!!

[@andorrasrevenge1683]

Wonderful!

[@robinterkzer8128]

Wonderful ! xxxxxxx

[@pascalbergerault4405]

Magistral !

[@marcelo.cau.]

Bravo!

[@marcel9716]

interpretação maravilhosa

[@derekwilkinson2285]

Is that Julian Bream's guitar? The wear mark under the sound hole is very familiar.

[@kostekklo]

Hello there. Does anyone know whats the piece in tonebase advertisement? I really like it

[@jorgeriostillit6487]

Muy interesante 🙏🎇🙂 El Maestro Britten también fue Director de Orquesta🏆🌅🙂 En sus Biografías se cuenta que recibió una gran formación académica 📚 (siendo niño)🤚..y su carrera como Compositor fue muy prolífica e innovadora 📝 🙂 Esta Obra se la dedicó al Maestro Julian Bream 🎼 🙂👍...(de hecho, usted eso lo sabe) 🎇👍👍👍👍👍👍 Creo que esta es una de las Piezas más interesantes del repertorio para Guitarra Clásica...👍🙂 Esta música es de alta complejidad...y difícil de ejecutar (por su alto nivel técnico♦️....y su profundidad espiritual) ✨ Que buenos contenidos 😊 (KZbin) 📟🔶️👍 Muchas Gracias por compartir su Arte 🙏🙂😊 Blessings ✨♦️✨♦️ 🌅🎼🐱

[@lukemarsden5872]

nice guitar - who's the maker?

[@nevzzonerose5684]

I'm fairly sure it was made by Christopher Dean. Stop the video at 11:43 and you can actually read Christopher on the label.

[@jorgesuarez7073]

I see there is a bitter argument about the shape of the guitarist's nails. I can't give an opinion on the nails, but the shape of the rest of the guitarist seems fine to me. Beautiful execution of a very difficult piece of music.

[@TalentedDilittante]

Tell us the truth, Noble Lady, full of passion! Are you the reincarnation of the daughter that Aubrey Beardsley should have had? The production, the ambiance, the scene set and taken by your cameraman is from mid-nineteenth century England: foreboding and forbidding, somber and threatening, macabre and romantic. You are the embodiment of the age . . . unmade-up, natural to the point of rising aromatically and vividly from all of Aubry Beardsley's prints. You could model for Alice of Alice in Wonderland, for all Charles Dickens's Gothic heroines. . . . You could sit at ease in the drawing rooms of Czar Nicholás or Teddy Roosevelt, among Louisa May Alcott's Little Women or sat with James Fennimore Cooper's Mohican Indians around a small fire in a large teepee . . . You are beautiful. . . . Minimalist attack, maximum sound! Close, exact, calm, precise--what intelligence! (By the way, nails, no nails, or nail-&-flesh ... guitar is home to a million players with more than a million approaches to unlock sound, all valid in their own way when successful.)

[@neilhaverstick1446]

Sorry, pretty bad camera work. It isn't about the cameraman/woman...although they seem to think it is. I quit watching.

[@phoenixlandingstudio6594]

Well there’s plenty of other videos…. Bye bye!

[@josdurkstraful]

Jeez... some people MUST find something negative to say, even if they have to find it with a magnifying glass in a heysteck.

[@stuie46]

Excellent, but maybe too clean and slow for my Bream mind.

[@nationalsocialist8382]

:)

[@MrTeapotpixie]

ironic as bream's interpretations are often slightly slower than what we see today. i thought this was played with a lot of love and feeling for the music. possibly the best music ever written for the instrument.

[@stuie46]

@@MrTeapotpixie The version played by Bream in the 1978 concert at New Wardour Castle is slightly quicker and is the one I mostly listen to.

[@MrTeapotpixie]

@@stuie46 i think if i remember rightly that was his first gig after smashing up his arm in a car crash.

[@thorstentopp3824]

Ich kann die Begeisterung der Kommentatoren nicht recht teilen. Sie spielt ziemlich langsam, was Einiges technisch vereinfacht. Die emotionalen Aufschwünge ergeben sich beim Spielen fast von allein, das ist kompositorisch angelegt. Den Rest finde ich manchmal geradezu langweilig. Diese Interpretation über Bream zu stellen, ist absurd.

[@jupiterinaries6150]

It sounds like the piece can’t make up its mind what it wants to do, which direction it wants to go! It sounds very lost and purely improvisational.

[@matreynolds1]

That's funny, to me it sounds like the best work ever composed for a fretted instrument. Listen a few times.

[@josephmarcello7481]

Poor Julian bream and all other guitars with the noblest notions of performing a state of the art 20th century guitar piece are trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear .. once again, the emotionally vacant Benjamin Britton fails to deliver on a truly compelling piece of music. Yes, it is cleverly written, and catchy at times, however, it is totally sterile and avoid of any genuine feeling. This was my deep impression the very first evening I heard Bremen introduce it decades ago in New York City, and it has remained my abiding impression throughout all the intervening years, and this being said as a composer of thousands of pieces of music with real melodies, ingenious harmonies which actually make people weep and respond with much feeling. Try again. Ben!

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

Don't like this 'music' (?) even though I like certain classical guitar pieces. It doesn't add to it that the chick has certain masculine features...I'm reminded of Tim Bricheno from All About Eve?

[@markcritchley9663]

Should have gone to spec savers oh great one !

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

@@markcritchley9663 How do you mean? my near sightedness is fine.