Astor Piazzolla's "Primavera Portena" performed by Tengyue "TY" Zhang on a 2018 Zoran Kuvac

Guitar: 2018 Zoran Kuvac CD/CSAR (tinyurl.com/yyq6zd9o)
Here's 2017 GFA first-prize winner Tengyue "Ty" Zhang playing Astor Piazzolla's "Primavera Portena", on a beautiful 2018 Zoran Kuvac classical guitar in cedar and CSA rosewood. Recorded at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA.
Huge thanks to the folks at Apogee Electronics (ApogeeDigital.com) for the use of their Ensemble interface in these recordings.
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[@TengyueZhang]

Thank you all for support! I love you all!

[@lawcch]

I Love your playing very much because you are my distant brother whom has the same Chinese surname. please teach me how to play this Tango music. which edition or arrangement you used for this video recording? Roland Dyen edition The Last Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla book ?

[@SmarthinEric]

Love your playing! Very engaging and tango-like!

[@glennwilliams8861]

Given time, this young man will be known by everyone.

[@user-kh8tc9sp7r]

Guitar perfection!!!

[@quietmind7476]

I admire the growth you have shown in the last 3 years since the Douglaston competition. This performance is exalted

[@pardisghasemi1115]

Best version of this piece for guitar I could find on TH-cam! Like the dancing of the left hand cool man cool!

[@TengyueZhang]

My view is that Dr. Vladmir Gorbach's version is the best!

[@pardisghasemi1115]

I checked that again, nooo yours the best!!!!

[@hriws]

@@TengyueZhang Both are great! BTW I'm just curious, do you consider this as one of the most challenging pieces, cus I found very few players play it well.

[@BIZEB]

@@TengyueZhang You'll get there. I'm sure you'll be able to infuse your pieces with more sentiment with a few more years. There are some things that can't be replaced, and experience with age is just one of those things.

[@raffitorossian6432]

A GIANT GUITARIST...BRAVO...!

[@roykhadra9949]

Great. I loved it.

[@basamak]

Beautiful!

[@vidalibanezfernandez]

Thank you for this music and performance!

[@benjamindague-classicalgui764]

Wonderful. Crisp and sickkkk

[@kesis7586]

Sensational! Your technique is unparalleled and your dynamics and phrasing really output the piazzolla experience in all its might! Best interpritation I've heard so far on the guitar!

[@gallettoguitarist]

Bravo!

[@santiagoroo4691]

Amazing execution. Bravo.

[@chauffaudlaura7421]

Hermosísimo !

[@JohnBarnicle]

Very nice.

[@carlosfernando709]

Muy buena ejecución. excelente.

[@Artearq7]

Ha nacido una estrella... :)

[@MrGergely86]

You are a great musician! :)

[@marclinlin2799]

讚賞啦

[@o0o0oo00oo00]

I don’t like this guitar sound but I like the play.

[@ivanguban7143]

Very fluent player, I wonder what is the action on 12th fret on that guitar? Sounded like flamenco guitar.

[@alexbustamante6532]

I'd say it has a low action for a classical guitar because as you said, it sounded very much like a flamenco guitar

[@fernandocostabel7468]

Es el arreglo de S.Assad?

[@juleswanadoo450]

Sí, es el que prefiero

[@soullessSiIence]

@@juleswanadoo450 y tú qué

[@franciscoabreu5159]

Bravíssimo 00:00 h Compassos 1 à 5

[@pedromeza2398]

Ty from now on, I will have to find a Spanish name to go with your guitar playing.

[@brettgoodroad7747]

😶

[@lacvuthien]

there is a wrong note at 0:51 i afraid

[@TengyueZhang]

It's an added dissonance, indeed a 'wrong note' 😝

[@lawcch]

@@TengyueZhang there are no wrong notes in the music score..only wrong hearing.

[@gtrmusic69]

I know he played Primaver Portena....but where is the music?
Slow down on command, speed up on command.
This goes to show where the GFA is headed with their competitions.
Technicians will be winning, musicians not so much.

[@benedicvelasco]

Are you looking for rubato?

[@alexandrosvavatzanidis4850]

Refreshing to hear Piazzolla, Dyens or Bach played in time, considering most of these works are dance based styles... Matter of taste but I think the notes speak for themselves without self-indulgences of the performer. Not to mention the specificity of the modern style means that composers write down ALL performance indications.
Bearing that in mind is a sign of a great musician to me...

[@Deerse]

I agree, listen to Baltazar Benitez ( who toured with Piazolla and pupil of Carlevaro) play this, you will hear so much more inner dimensions. It has to do with a lot of things: articulation, phrasing, subtle flucuation of tempo, colour and so on. But the most important thing is that ( as C.P.E.Bach wisely quoted in 1752) a player who is not moved can't move others.

[@zacharylagace-s.7086]

_a tempo_ doesn't mean there's no music...

[@soullessSiIence]

Ironically to your comment, this interpretation has a LOT of technical flaws. Many notes weren't accurate, yet he delivered a great interpretation. Seems like you have no idea what you're talking about.

[@benjamindague-classicalgui764]

Thumbs down?? Jealous people everywhere I suppose.