Joaquin Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

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Someone other than me please say this is gorgeous.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 03:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's gorgeous

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 03:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

i've wanted to hear this for a while now. this is the piece Sketches in Spain was based on. what's the instrumentation like?

― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 05:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

ben watson has ruined it for me. i used to think it was gorgeous.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 08:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha! yes he savagely attacked this (and sketches of spain as some sort of wallpaper type music) when he reviewed the biog of...can't quite remmeber who?

but i never heard this (heard bits of sketches but not enough for an assessment).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 09:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

of course it's gorgeous. don't see how people can not have heard it though, it's very famous...

― michael (michael), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I used to like the "Sketches" version better (youthful "cool jazz better than light classics" prejudice) but came to see the error of my ways. Haven't heard either for years though.

― ArfArf, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's lovelylovelylovely, and lovelier live than on record, though I suppose that's obvious (so long as the guitarist is good, and is using a stool to rest his foot on :)

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

besides 'Sketches...', there's a nice MJQ version of the Adagio on 'Space' (one of their two late 60s LPs on Apple). lovely, lovely album...

― michael (michael), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 08:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Any interesting facts or observations on the Aranjuez or Rodrigo are welcome, gotta do a presentation on it on Monday. My guitar teacher has written a book on it but its very acedemic and dry. Favourite version? Any films its been used in?

Saw John Williams perform it recently, I disagree with the comment above about it being better live than on cd. We had good seats and his tone was pretty nasty, the strings and woodwind totally drowned him out. He even fucked up a couple of times, perhaps it was a bad day.

Gotta learn that shred section in the second movement, its gorgeous, the fast harp sounding bit is actually strummed rather than plucked which was the bit that really scared me.

― TomBee, Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

this concerto is so much fun ... especially the outer movements

― lemin (lemin), Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

no matter what anyone says, it is gorgeous. but the "3 spanish pieces" for solo guitar take the cake as far as i'm concerned.

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

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