well i just wondering? In ur opinion what is the most difficult piece for classical guitar??????

Well I have to say the one and maybe the most difficult piece for classical guitar in my opinion is "Recuerdos de la Ahlambra" by Tarrega...
Also I`ve found a bit hard "Asturias" by Albeniz....

THAT`S ALL FOLKS !!!

Leyenda from Albeniz, I can play like first page on electic guitar and I think it sounds awesome, but it is very hard, need very acurate fingers. Also, Leyenda on piano is awesome.

Most people say it is the Concerto of Aranjuez of Joaquin Rodrigo

Correct me, but i`ve heard that steve vai is pretty hard, but thats rock...

Not to sound stuffy or pompous, but Recuerdos de la Alhambra really isn`t that hard to get down - after learning how to tremolo, your pretty much left with expressing it. I can`t say I think much about the difficulty of Asturias either, but it is pretty darn hard, I agree. But for me, I think the hardest thing I`ve seen/heard is Sevilla by Albeniz. Some of Roland Dyen`s stuff is pretty hard too. Not to mention Tarrega`s Etude in A.

Barrios Mangore`s music is damn hard. One song features tremolo on the 19th string...

Another difficult song is "Una Limosnita Por El Amor De Dios" By Mangore himself...the last piece he ever composed. Provided that you play it as fast as its meant to be played..

Cavatina, contrary to popular belief, is rather easy.

However I think any piece can be easy if one decides to play it with legato :-)

i really wouldnt say that Recuerdos is most difficutl piece for guitar ... same with Aranjuez .. Aranjuez is 10 times more hard than Recuerdos but still not most hard piece for guitar ...

Sevilla is not easy .. but depends on the transcription if its set up bad .. but i think Castillas is a bit more difficult than Sevilla ..

Try out Castelnuovos d-minor Concerto and you see a harder one than Aranjuez!!

Chaconne by Bach is also a very hard piece (sure the Segovia transcription but also the literal one)

But much harder than that all I would say are those big compositions by Napoleon Coste, e.g. Valse favorite, Le passage des Alps or Grande Serenade. Other piece which most challanging is Legnanis "Terromoto con Variazione" .. try that out and you know what "difficult" means.

Out of modern pieces take Villa-Lobos! E.g. Etude no 2, 7 or 12 , i am sure you prefer Alhambra :D

Regards!

Actually most difficult 5 pieces for guitar composed by Ulug Ozkan.
A swiss,turkish,circassian composer.You need two players in order to play them on piano.

Have fun.

Two players does not count!!! Then I could write a piece for 100 guitarists, but this makes no sense!

It really hard to bullet point which is the hardest piece to play on any instrument, but id have to say Steve Vai`s Blue Powder or Paul Gilbert`s Scarified would come close.

post them!! then we will see

Hard to believe this thread has gotten this far w/o mention of J.S. Bach`s Chaconne. Segovia told Christopher Parkening that he shouldn`t even try to learn it until he was at least fifty years old. Of course, Parkening didn`t listen to the old master and recorded the Chaconne on Parkening Plays Bach when he was still in his twenties.

What about are we discussing here? When i think of
"hardest pieces for guitar" i think of alone playing but not the people playing fast single lines as Vai,Malmsteen or Gilbert with a band behind for accompagnement.Anyone study well Pagannini caprices can play this style of guitar music without any pain.Are we talking about how to play guitar like a violon or real guitar virtuoso music
which is composed for play alone?

I also do not want to talk about interpretation.There are a lot of pieces are technically easy and simple but very difficult for make sound well.That means that the title "Most difficult piece for guitar" has nothing to do with the phenomen calls "interpretation".

When i heard about "hardest piece for guitar" i think of a piece contains serious harmonic/polyphonic changes with very difficult positions for fingers but composed for play alone.I also do not want to talk about monster pieces for piano which played on guitar.In fact they will only rarely sound well on the guitar.
Because they are composed for the percussive sonority of piano but not for the intime sound of guitar.That is why usually piano music sounds very mechanic and anti musical when we play them on the guitar.

"Hardest piece for guitar" should be extremely difficult for playing (guitar alone) and impossible to play on another instrument.

I hope there is someone over there who can tell me about "most difficult pieces for guitar" which have all those particularities.

I claim that most difficult pieces for guitar are 5 Preludes composed by Ulug Ozkan.A Swiss,Turkish,Circassian composer/guitarist from Basel/Switzerland.

In regard to "Recuerdos," I agree with another person that it isn`t that difficult IF one has a beautiful and sufficiently audible tremolo technique--that`s not easy. Moreover, "Recuerdos" has quite a bit of second string tremolo work. My favorite composers--Albeniz, Bach, and Lauro--have provided guitarists with many outstanding but difficult works.