| Naxos | The Concierto de Aranjuez is a work of undoubted historical importance, firstly because it was the first modern work for solo guitar and orchestra, and secondly because it was the first Spanish composition to achieve international success after the Civil War. The war had still been raging when Rodrigo wrote the concerto in Paris in early 1939, but he completed it in Madrid when the fighting was over. An air of nostalgia for happier times runs through the music, for which there is no programme, but just a vague reference to Aranjuez, the eighteenth-century summer retreat of the Spanish Bourbon royal family, a villa surrounded by leafy woods and tranquil gardens, the sound of birdsong: a wartime allusion to peacetime happiness. |
| Disc No: 8.555841 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Rodrigo - Complete Orchestral Works 2 | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Rodrigo, Joaquin | Concierto de Aranjuez | Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias - Maximiano Valdes Ricardo Gallen, guitar | ||
| Rodrigo, Joaquin | Fantasia para un gentilhombre | |||
| Rodrigo, Joaquin | Concierto Andaluz | Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias - Maximiano Valdes EntreQuatre Guitar Quartet |