Xingye Li plays Allegro BWV 1003 by Bach

ByBradford Werner
2014

Xingye Li plays Allegro BWV 1003 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) on a 2014 Roy Fankhänel guitar. This is from Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003. This video is via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel. Support Siccas because they are doing fantastic work!

As I said last week for his recording of Villa-lobos, Li kind of reminds me of Yamashita’s style and tone: tons of risk and exciting despite being rough around the edges on occasion. I love how much risk he takes as he ‘goes for it’ plus he has some of the most impressive dynamic contrasts I’ve heard on guitar. Fantastic. Li was born in China and has a vast number of accomplishments as well as three albums, you can learn more about him via his sponsor, Hannabach Strings where they posted a bio.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.