The passion of Flamenco blends with the elegance of courtly dances in the most popular guitar concerto of all time: Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. The work was composed in Paris in 1939 during a ...
Music by Ricardo Gallen on this Saturday's Fretworks. For the next Fretworks program Saturday evening at 7, I’ll have this relatively unfamiliar concerto for guitar and orchestra by Rodrigo with ...
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Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' (1937) visually describes the carnage and morose nature of war, but what was the inspiration for Joaquin Rodrigo's most famous guitar concerto? It had been conjectured that ...
The passion of Flamenco blends with the elegance of courtly dances in the most popular guitar concerto of all time: Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. This album is part of 1000 Years of Classical Music ...
As cliché as it may seem for a classical guitar player, my "First Love" would be a tie between Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (yes, the one you hear all the time!) and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ ...
Written by Joaquin Rodrigo in 1939, the Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar classic. He wrote it amid the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, and in circumstances of poverty and personal tragedy. How has it ...