I realize this was 7yrs ago, but this man's guitar playing is still worth commenting on. I could listen to him play for hrs. Very impressive, a true master of his craft! Thank you sir👏👏👏
00:01 Isac Albeniz, Catalunya J. S. Bach - Goldberg Variations 04:08 Aria 06:49 var. 1 07:55 var. 5 09:01 var. 7 10:05 var. 11 10:58 var. 21 13:00 var. 22 13:47 Aria da capo 16:48 Stephen Goss, Labyrinth (with Beethoven & Brahms evoked at the end) 22:44 Joaquin Rodrigo, Toccata
One of the few of the younger generation of classical guitarists that I like. Most of today's younger players sacrifice musicality and feeling for speed and technical prowess. Celil plays with both feeling and skill, he doesnt rush though the pieces trying to impress with technical ability, he appreciates the beauty of the pieces. He will one day be ranked with the likes of Bream, Williams, Russell etc I'm my humble opinion. I don't think you can say that about most players today.
Mr Kaya, the best of all. An outstanding performance! The selection of peaces is a pure demonstration and proof of musical maturity! A pure genius! Bravo!
Exquisitas interpretaciones. Concuerdo en que arte y competición no necesariamente van de la mano. Personalmente las interpretaciones de Celil son artísticamente merecedoras del más elogioso de los premios. Bach es sublime y profundo. Además, aunque no lo más relevante, es técnicamente consumado para lograr la expresión que conmueve. ¡Bravo Celil!,
8 ปีที่แล้ว +5
Türkiye'nin gururu !!! Başarıların daim olsun üstat.
Hi Cellil.. U r blessed with a good memory and touch with perfection as far as possible.. There is dedication with perseverance felt justifying dude.. I did enjoy and experience through different composer's pieces their interpretation reasonably.. Their was a fair amount of musicality with dynamic colours and a good timbre projecting the melody or main theme while the counterpoint or bass lines were weaving equally audible in extreme pp' or ff' levels either.. Please keep it up dude.. God bless you.. Warm cheers.. siva.. gtr.. cbe.. 👌🎉👍💐🙏🎶😊🎼
The fact that this is a competition torments me. Why can't it just be a showcase? Is there really such a thing as "best" guitarist? At this level of performance I imagine the guitarists are looking at each other thinking "how could I possibly come close to that?". When you've reached a level where your proficiency defines you, hearing others play and their interpretations must come down to subjectivity.
Because the prize they win is about $30,000, they get a NAXOS CD recording and approximately 50 concerts on a US tour. They compete to win that. Really much of comes down to who doesn't crack under the pressure and make one small error as that can be the difference between winning or losing
@@castor5001 Honestly i can't say why Jara win, it could be on so many little things, but im sure it was very close between the contestants (there was also Pavel Kukhta and Andrea De Vitis who are incredible musicians). Im just saying that it's wrong to say that Celil was "clearly superior".
@@MrSuperpatoo I play classics guitar and my son is a Symphony Orchestra player ( clarinet). This competition are not good for our instrument. It separate classic guitar from the music world. The judge from this competition should be musicians from other instruments, with music scores with them. Also requires an ensemble performance with other instruments. Put a classics guitar player in rock, jazz or any other music group and see what happens. Can we play first sight maybe not... Can we play by ear maybe not.... Can we improvise maybe not. You get the point.
@@gergthims I am quite sure, as my guitar is nearly identical (same maker and style of construction). Glenn is not the first one to do a balsa double top, but it is still an extremely recent development in terms of the entire history of the guitar.
@@aytahnbenavi Thank you, Aytahn: sorry to have doubted you, but I build model airplanes using balsa, and a guitar made of balsa (I should say, 'using balsa') seemed like a plastic hammer. I'll bet they exist, too!)
Oh for gawdsakes, can't we have proper recordings of these astounding instrumentalists!!?? Why is it that these presentations have such inferior recording tech??
There's a few things at play here. They did not want an obstructed view of the performance. Hence the mic is very low to the ground. The mic looks like it might be a Telefunken M60 or similar pencil condenser mic. These are very nice microphones. They want to portray a natural uncompressed sound. I imagine it sounded beautiful in the auditorium. What the board captures will not be nearly as robust as what is projected from the speakers and into that resonant hall. Honestly, it sounds beautiful to me. This isn't a studio recording. Far more natural sounding. They could have mic'd the room but that would introduce a lot more audience noise than is already present.
Jo Moreels Gould is best pianist ever for me too. But Gould's legendry performances Can not be compared to anyone. I'm turksh like Celil Refik Kaya, but Kaya's performanses not as considered as Gould's...
Glenn Gould is amazing. But he was really inspired in Bach playing by Maria Yudina. And so many unknown russian pianists that were unbelievable. We know for sure what the industry recorded in our own interest. So many giants forgotten.
Sevgili Celil, naçizane kanaatime göre, sen Manuel Barrueco'dan (diğerlerinden değil) bir sonraki basamaksın; müzikaliteden ödün vermeden çok dengeli çalıyorsun. Neredeyse tüm yorumlarını referans olarak gösterebilirim.
Manuel Barrueco'yu -yıllardır konserlere çıkmadığı, sadece eğitmenlik yaptığı halde- tanıyıp değer veren bir kadın ile karşılaşmak duygulandırdı beni. Teşekkür ederim.Sevgili Celil'in üzerinde emeği geçenlere, özellikle Raffi Hocama ne mutlu!
"Dear Celil, in my opinion, you are the next step from Manuel Barrueco (not the others); You play very balanced without sacrificing music. I can refer to almost all of your performances."
derya abicim anlaşıldığı kadarıyla gitar müziğinden anlamaktasınız. yıllardır barrueco nun neden güzel bach çaldığını anlamaya çalıştım biraz izah ederseniz çok sevinirim. şimdiden teşekkürler.
His playing is beyond superb, and he is amongst my very favourite of young players. However I don't care for the sound of his instrument, it certainly has great dynamic range but, as with others with its style of construction, it is a one trick pony in the timbre department.
No entiendo por qué no gana... Más expresión y articulación que los demás
7 ปีที่แล้ว +3
No importa amigo . Lo que hace es música . Ganar es para las carreras . Lo importante es que se pueda mantener tocando durante el tiempo . Es un fenómeno!!! . Lo de los premios depende del gusto del jurado, y del concepto de ellos, por no hablar de los intereses que puede llegar a haber.
@@josepascual1402 no necesariamente, en el Mundo de la guitarra clásica es uno de los mayores problemas tocamos para otros guitarristas y nos alejamos del universo de la música. Cuando pianistas, violinistas y músicos de todo instrumentos digan que tocas bien eres un gran músico.
What I observe are marginal differences between players where I see little new. Take Cataluna from Albeniz for example. Manuel Barruecco has set the standard and since then many have started using it. But all those results do not add a new artistic element to what M.B. did in the eighties. No matter how well some people play, the differences between these covers are marginal, predictable and I boring to my feeling. This discussion goes further than just this competition. It It is about uniformity, artistry, personal and musical development. I think that because everyone wants to look alike (unlike players like Bream, Yepes, Segovia and Williams who are / were authentic in their own way and follow their own path) the artistic element of individuality and deepening is hardly ever entered. wanting to understand the underlying reason, superficial reactions come in such as: you can turn off the button or I hear no Asturias, well ... It is no wonder that guitarists can barely fill half a Wigmore Hall.
harika.ancak belirtmek istediğim bir husus var; bach çalınacaksa valör geçişler yapılsın.tamam belki yapılan etkinlik mükemmel müziik yapma etkinliği değil ama inanın bach müziği söz konusuysa çok titiz olmak lazım gelir....
I wouldn ´t have believed before,that it is possible to play Bach on a guitar,but Your play is fantastic and really hiting the style of Bach ! More than that: The sound of the guitar is softer than the piano and You are able to play with more expression - wonderful ! All the pieces are touching my heart. Thank You for sharing !
I love this piece by Albeniz. Played wonderfully. You can tell that it is not a piece written for the guitar. And that's what make it so original. Amazing. GD
Keşke hasan cihat örter gibiler şu performans iı islese de bir şey öğrense. Ahlak 10, temiz çalma 10, prezentabllık 10, gitara tonlara hakimiyet 10. Çok iyi yerlerde göreceğiz seni Celil. #hasancihatörter #bakveöğren
To me these competititions are to academical, dull and predictable. The players all have a fantastic technique and play with devotion. Yet at the same time I don't feel that competitions and art go together in an organic way. And why don't players improvise and compose also, because that is the classical tradition? I'dd rather hear an own composition which is simple, then Asturias for the 100 st time with a few minor mistakes. What is more exciting then exploring your inner landscape and putting that journey on the map?
I love listening to these academical, dull(?), and predictable(?) competitions. I don't know what you are observing this performance on, but on my computer screen at the top there is a line with all the open windows. The window I am listening to has a mute button and an x. If I personally wanted to listen to something else, I do not, what I would do is to hit the x, and this performance that offends you so would disapear from your ears, open a new window to you tube and select what I did want to hear from you tubes limited avalable selections. I would have been there to enjoy that performance personally were I able to...
@@scottripley5764 Of course, but I assumed that the concentrated reader would understand why I mentioned this piece as an example, it goes beyond this particular performance.
I realize this was 7yrs ago, but this man's guitar playing is still worth commenting on. I could listen to him play for hrs. Very impressive, a true master of his craft! Thank you sir👏👏👏
00:01 Isac Albeniz, Catalunya
J. S. Bach - Goldberg Variations
04:08 Aria
06:49 var. 1
07:55 var. 5
09:01 var. 7
10:05 var. 11
10:58 var. 21
13:00 var. 22
13:47 Aria da capo
16:48 Stephen Goss, Labyrinth (with Beethoven & Brahms evoked at the end)
22:44 Joaquin Rodrigo, Toccata
Celil is definitely one of my favorite guitar players in the world! I love his playing and clear tone, Really inspiring!
böyle mükemmel bir gitaristimiz olduğu için ne mutlu bize teşekkürler celil refik kaya
One of the few of the younger generation of classical guitarists that I like. Most of today's younger players sacrifice musicality and feeling for speed and technical prowess. Celil plays with both feeling and skill, he doesnt rush though the pieces trying to impress with technical ability, he appreciates the beauty of the pieces. He will one day be ranked with the likes of Bream, Williams, Russell etc I'm my humble opinion. I don't think you can say that about most players today.
Mr Kaya, the best of all. An outstanding performance! The selection of peaces is a pure demonstration and proof of musical maturity! A pure genius! Bravo!
Enstrumanını böyle mükemmel çalan kişileri dinlerken gördüğüm şey bir hayatın o alete adanmış olduğu .. büyük bir sabır, istikrar. Emeğine sağlık
The control over the tone is just world class
Tebrik ederim !
Biz gitar severler için büyük gurur..
Wonderful musician, great program. He has great taste, technique, and soul! Thanks, Celil!
What an honor for Turkey ... his family our friends I listened him live at my house ...
este hombre tiene ejecución magistral... la sonoridad de su guitarra es admirable... pronto estará en la cumbre de la guitarra mundial... bravo!!!
Congratulations! You are an excelent musician! A fine and precise touch and interpretation!
Mukemmelsiniz Refik bey.Tebrikler ve cok cok tesekkurler.
D best in todays generation of classical guitarists... celil
Exquisitas interpretaciones. Concuerdo en que arte y competición no necesariamente van de la mano. Personalmente las interpretaciones de Celil son artísticamente merecedoras del más elogioso de los premios. Bach es sublime y profundo. Además, aunque no lo más relevante, es técnicamente consumado para lograr la expresión que conmueve. ¡Bravo Celil!,
Türkiye'nin gururu !!!
Başarıların daim olsun üstat.
Fino ad ora il migliore in assoluto ha tutto, tecnica, pulizia nel suono anima, perfetto in tutto, grande veramente
I am so glad I found this video. He is awesome.
Wonderful, Celil !!!! I liked your Performance wery much! My opinion -- you must be 1-st !!!
Absolutely wonderful!
1. Isac Albeniz - Catalunya
2. J. S. Bach - Goldberg Variations
3. Stephen Goss - Labyrinth
4. Joaquin Rodrigo - Toccata
Thank you!
Albéniz no escribió y nunca hubiera escrito Catalunya sino Cataluña, que es como se escribe en español
Cataluña is probably my favorite piece by Albeniz
Thanks!
eresoskar Thanks!
İnanılmaz güzel bir icra, gurur duyuyorum
He is "the One"!
Gerçekten muhteşem,çok seviyorum seni ve yaptığın işi :)
Clearly, he deserved the first prize! I don't want to disrespect the others, but Kaya is exceptionally talented!
Premier prix ou pas c'est magnifique! J'ai adoré votre prestation!!!! Merci infiniment!
Outstanding musician, clean technique and musically perfect
Great stuff. Thanks for posting this.
Hi Cellil.. U r blessed with a good memory and touch with perfection as far as possible.. There is dedication with perseverance felt justifying dude.. I did enjoy and experience through different composer's pieces their interpretation reasonably.. Their was a fair amount of musicality with dynamic colours and a good timbre projecting the melody or main theme while the counterpoint or bass lines were weaving equally audible in extreme pp' or ff' levels either.. Please keep it up dude.. God bless you.. Warm cheers.. siva.. gtr.. cbe.. 👌🎉👍💐🙏🎶😊🎼
At a time when a well known classical guitarist plays slow boring nonsense, its refreshing to listen to Celil.
what are the "slow boring nonsense" you're talking about?
yes give us a specific example rather than the dubious parody
Exquisite playing and listening is a true pleasure.
The fact that this is a competition torments me. Why can't it just be a showcase? Is there really such a thing as "best" guitarist? At this level of performance I imagine the guitarists are looking at each other thinking "how could I possibly come close to that?". When you've reached a level where your proficiency defines you, hearing others play and their interpretations must come down to subjectivity.
Because this is one of the few ways for today's guitarists to gain some recognition
Because the prize they win is about $30,000, they get a NAXOS CD recording and approximately 50 concerts on a US tour. They compete to win that. Really much of comes down to who doesn't crack under the pressure and make one small error as that can be the difference between winning or losing
Just perfect performance!!
Astonishing economy of technique, an outstanding player
Jara is good...but Celil should have won the first prize
Kayas' playing is clearly superior to all the other competitors.
Maybe you need to listen Xavier Jara again. Celil is a wonderful musician but i dont think you have the knowledge to say who is better.
@@MrSuperpatoo in your opinion why you believe Jara win
@@castor5001 Honestly i can't say why Jara win, it could be on so many little things, but im sure it was very close between the contestants (there was also Pavel Kukhta and Andrea De Vitis who are incredible musicians). Im just saying that it's wrong to say that Celil was "clearly superior".
@@MrSuperpatoo I play classics guitar and my son is a Symphony Orchestra player ( clarinet). This competition are not good for our instrument. It separate classic guitar from the music world. The judge from this competition should be musicians from other instruments, with music scores with them. Also requires an ensemble performance with other instruments.
Put a classics guitar player in rock, jazz or any other music group and see what happens. Can we play first sight maybe not... Can we play by ear maybe not.... Can we improvise maybe not. You get the point.
Very good, very clean tunes
Harika, tebrikler, başarılarınızın devamını dilerim.
Wonderful play! I'm blown away by breathtaking fabulous performance. May I know which guitar he used?
It's a balsa wood double top by Glenn Canin. He's a maker from california. Definitely one of the best sounding guitars around.
Aha thank you
@@aytahnbenavi balsa wood? Are you sure? I think that would be unprecedented.
@@gergthims I am quite sure, as my guitar is nearly identical (same maker and style of construction). Glenn is not the first one to do a balsa double top, but it is still an extremely recent development in terms of the entire history of the guitar.
@@aytahnbenavi Thank you, Aytahn: sorry to have doubted you, but I build model airplanes using balsa, and a guitar made of balsa (I should say, 'using balsa') seemed like a plastic hammer. I'll bet they exist, too!)
Oh for gawdsakes, can't we have proper recordings of these astounding instrumentalists!!??
Why is it that these presentations have such inferior recording tech??
hear hear!
There's a few things at play here. They did not want an obstructed view of the performance. Hence the mic is very low to the ground. The mic looks like it might be a Telefunken M60 or similar pencil condenser mic. These are very nice microphones. They want to portray a natural uncompressed sound. I imagine it sounded beautiful in the auditorium. What the board captures will not be nearly as robust as what is projected from the speakers and into that resonant hall. Honestly, it sounds beautiful to me. This isn't a studio recording. Far more natural sounding. They could have mic'd the room but that would introduce a lot more audience noise than is already present.
I have Listened to other competitors and i'm very sad for the outcome 😁
Extraordinario!!!
Glenn Gould on Guitar !
WTF?
Gould is for me "the best" on piano... Celil is very close to this level on Guitar... Clear ?
Jo Moreels Gould is best pianist ever for me too. But Gould's legendry performances Can not be compared to anyone. I'm turksh like Celil Refik Kaya, but Kaya's performanses not as considered as Gould's...
You're right.
Glenn Gould is amazing. But he was really inspired in Bach playing by Maria Yudina. And so many unknown russian pianists that were unbelievable. We know for sure what the industry recorded in our own interest. So many giants forgotten.
Please publish the transcription of goldberg variations! Its wonderful
¡Estas Variaciones Goldberg suenan sublimes! ¡Qué placer escucharlas.!
The Rodrigo piece is wonderful.
Great !
Técnica perfecta, elegante la dinámica y sensible la interpretación! felicitaciones? que tipo de cuerdas usa?
D best sir celil
D best... d latest... kaya
Program please anyone?
Sevgili Celil, naçizane kanaatime göre, sen Manuel Barrueco'dan (diğerlerinden değil) bir sonraki basamaksın; müzikaliteden ödün vermeden çok dengeli çalıyorsun. Neredeyse tüm yorumlarını referans olarak gösterebilirim.
Manuel Barrueco'yu -yıllardır konserlere çıkmadığı, sadece eğitmenlik yaptığı halde- tanıyıp değer veren bir kadın ile karşılaşmak duygulandırdı beni. Teşekkür ederim.Sevgili Celil'in üzerinde emeği geçenlere, özellikle Raffi Hocama ne mutlu!
Derya Eryıldız Would please translate it to English, or French, or Spanish?
Türkish :)
"Dear Celil, in my opinion, you are the next step from Manuel Barrueco (not the others); You play very balanced without sacrificing music. I can refer to almost all of your performances."
derya abicim anlaşıldığı kadarıyla gitar müziğinden anlamaktasınız. yıllardır barrueco nun neden güzel bach çaldığını anlamaya çalıştım biraz izah ederseniz çok sevinirim. şimdiden teşekkürler.
Please share the program! Thanks! :D
Genio della chitarra!
BRAVO!
T O P
Gururumuz...
What?!
@@evgenysemenov6051 i make a comment in Turkish for a guitarist from Turkey, and a Russian asks me question in english...
Sublime! Did he finally win the 1st prize?
Dont think so
Braviiisssimooo
Bravo!
Bravo ~★
His playing is beyond superb, and he is amongst my very favourite of young players.
However I don't care for the sound of his instrument, it certainly has great dynamic range but, as with others with its style of construction, it is a one trick pony in the timbre department.
Bravo...
Buraya Asyalı esprisi gelecek...
6:50
Who is the luthier?
Mikkel Lynggaard The luthier is Glenn Canin from California
Nota mil
who won?
Andres rojas Xavier Jara
No entiendo por qué no gana... Más expresión y articulación que los demás
No importa amigo . Lo que hace es música . Ganar es para las carreras . Lo importante es que se pueda mantener tocando durante el tiempo . Es un fenómeno!!! . Lo de los premios depende del gusto del jurado, y del concepto de ellos, por no hablar de los intereses que puede llegar a haber.
Rubén Mohr Si,lo sé. estoy de acuerdo contigo. Lo que pasa es que el exito de una carrera depende grandemente de ganar competencias.
@@josepascual1402 no necesariamente, en el Mundo de la guitarra clásica es uno de los mayores problemas tocamos para otros guitarristas y nos alejamos del universo de la música. Cuando pianistas, violinistas y músicos de todo instrumentos digan que tocas bien eres un gran músico.
This guy got 4th place by the way
What I observe are marginal differences between players where I see little new. Take Cataluna from Albeniz for example. Manuel Barruecco has set the standard and since then many have started using it. But all those results do not add a new artistic element to what M.B. did in the eighties. No matter how well some people play, the differences between these covers are marginal, predictable and I boring to my feeling. This discussion goes further than just this competition. It It is about uniformity, artistry, personal and musical development. I think that because everyone wants to look alike (unlike players like Bream, Yepes, Segovia and Williams who are / were authentic in their own way and follow their own path) the artistic element of individuality and deepening is hardly ever entered. wanting to understand the underlying reason, superficial reactions come in such as: you can turn off the button or I hear no Asturias, well ... It is no wonder that guitarists can barely fill half a Wigmore Hall.
Они все прекрасно играют, но играют одно и то же и почти одинаково - в этом минус сегодняшней классической гитары
Я бы так не говорил, репертуар похожий, но всё-таки очень разный.
KAPIŞALIMMI
Первый нах!Ахахахахахахвха
harika.ancak belirtmek istediğim bir husus var; bach çalınacaksa valör geçişler yapılsın.tamam belki yapılan etkinlik mükemmel müziik yapma etkinliği değil ama inanın bach müziği söz konusuysa çok titiz olmak lazım gelir....
Secdigin parcalar guzel degil. Af edersin. Sahnede dinleyenlerin gore bir kac parca melodic seyiler calmalisin. Classic demek istiyorum. Los Angeles.
Technically brilliant but overall very boring.
I wouldn ´t have believed before,that it is possible to play Bach on a guitar,but Your play is fantastic and really hiting the style of Bach !
More than that: The sound of the guitar is softer than the piano and You are able to play with more expression - wonderful !
All the pieces are touching my heart. Thank You for sharing !
Many guitarists play Bach, especially herr Lute Transcriptions. .. but this is exceptional playing!
Bravo!
To me it seems that this performer deserved the first prize.
I've said that every time he's competed at GFA.
Jara is better imo
@@nikitamozhegov6944 explain why
@@nikitamozhegov6944 No way....
@@nikitamozhegov6944 no. Same level.
Impressionnant !!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love this piece by Albeniz. Played wonderfully. You can tell that it is not a piece written for the guitar. And that's what make it so original. Amazing. GD
perfection!!
Keşke hasan cihat örter gibiler şu performans iı islese de bir şey öğrense. Ahlak 10, temiz çalma 10, prezentabllık 10, gitara tonlara hakimiyet 10. Çok iyi yerlerde göreceğiz seni Celil. #hasancihatörter #bakveöğren
To me these competititions are to academical, dull and predictable. The players all have a fantastic technique and play with devotion. Yet at the same time I don't feel that competitions and art go together in an organic way. And why don't players improvise and compose also, because that is the classical tradition? I'dd rather hear an own composition which is simple, then Asturias for the 100 st time with a few minor mistakes. What is more exciting then exploring your inner landscape and putting that journey on the map?
I love listening to these academical, dull(?), and predictable(?) competitions. I don't know what you are observing this performance on, but on my computer screen at the top there is a line with all the open windows. The window I am listening to has a mute button and an x. If I personally wanted to listen to something else, I do not, what I would do is to hit the x, and this performance that offends you so would disapear from your ears, open a new window to you tube and select what I did want to hear from you tubes limited avalable selections. I would have been there to enjoy that performance personally were I able to...
Funny, I didn't hear a single person play Asturias here... Are we watching the same video?
Some players are not composers and there needs to be familiarity with content for the listener. A litmus test so to speak.
I agree my friend. Academic approach to music is like loving nature only for its scientific value
@@scottripley5764 Of course, but I assumed that the concentrated reader would understand why I mentioned this piece as an example, it goes beyond this particular performance.
Bravo！
3:00 onwards small mistake. Fluff on bass strings. Then open B string sounding.