Classical music rediscovers the guitar. Episode 25 - Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- When Rodrigo wrote his guitar concerto the instrument had been mostly forgotten by classical composers - Not loud enough to keep up with the huge sound that modern orchestras were generating, and the ‘Marshall Stack’ wouldn’t be available for another few decades.
Rodrigo reminded the world how expressive the guitar can be in the right hands with the right accompaniment and influenced a whole new generation of guitarists and composers.
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Composer: Joaquin Rodrigo
Work: Concierto de Aranjuez
Performer: Pepe Romero (guitar), The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Year: 2000
Label: Philips
Catalogue No. 4380162
I love that the King of Spain ennobled Rodrigo (artists never get enough honor) AND that his title was “Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez.” The Concierto has been one of my favorites since I was a teenager. But I never knew anything about the composer, so thanks for sharing this.
As a guitarist, I can't believe you actually made this. Thank you!
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Great choice. Thank you for telling this story. It is such a revered classical piece that it seems like it must have been written in far off legendary times. It is strange to think of the composer being alive to react to Miles Davis version of his masterpiece. Which also makes me want to go looking for that album.
Superb in every way
I saw references of previous episodes: Pines of Rome, Carmen, Carnival of animals, 4 seasons, 9th symphony, Rapsody in blue and 2nd piano concerto. At most of the I noticed the composers.
Concierto Andaluz is one of my favorites!
Classics Explained top G
2:47 twoset spotted
Nice.
Waiting for Antonio Salieri to get the Classics Explained treatment.
I had the pleasure to play this live (accompaying along with the violin) and it never fails to hit the feels man
Wonderful video! The animation looks amazing!
Thank you for the episode, still waiting for the Heitor Villa-Lobos one =)
As someone who grew up learning classical guitar I truly appreciate this. It’s an instrument that really doesn't get the appreciation it deserves. Thank you team Classics Explained!
I have never heard of this composer or this piece, but I love it already after watching this video.
If you enjoy this guitar concert, I invite you to listen to his other one titled “Fantasía para un gentilhombre”.
I don't know how you do it but you guys always manage to pull it off. Greeting from Spain.
Wow, this is really cool. Most of the Classics Explained have been about pieces I have heard before, but I had never really noticed this piece and didn’t know the story. This was a really cool one.
Is there gonna be Bartered Bride, Barber of Seville, Appachialan Spring, Lark Ascending, Bells Across the Meadows, Hungarian Rhapsody and Mahler’s 7th Symphony?
Suggestions for Future videos: Vaughan Williams- The Lark Ascending, Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Christmas Concertos of Torelli, Corelli, and so on, Sibelius' Tapiola, Rutter's Carols, Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto, Lyadov's The Enchanted Lake, Glazunov's The Sea, Warlock's Capriol Suite, Brahms' Hungarian Dance no. 5, Giazotto's Adagio, Pachelbel's Canon (for Christmas), Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, etc.
All 6 Brandenburg concertos by bach will be interesting
Dont forget Romanian Rhapsody 1/2 by George Enescu
Lark Ascending!!!
I would add Liszt's Les Preludes (one of my favorite pieces of musical bombast), and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
What about Verdi's "Inno delle Nazioni"?
I always love watching your videos to get more background on pieces I'm already well familiar with.
But this is the first time I didn't "know" the piece. I remember hearing it on those "Hooked on Classics" albums, but never actually knew it.
So what a fantastic surprise to be reintroduced to it. Adding it to my list of pieces to listen to now!
LETSSS GOOO I LOVE THIS PIECE
What a great choice for your new video! (Commenting this even before watching)
Your videos and animation have come so far, good job mate!
I did not expect that Spinal Tap stage malfunction joke in this!
A famous Christmas example from Spain is Pablo Casels' Song of the Birds for Cello and Piano from the 1970s.
You always hit the right spot with the piece selection
oh how nice, just yesterday I saw a pair of guitar concerts live with the orchestra
Looks like I just fell in love with a new piece of Classical Music
@@DJuniverse26 Feel free to also check out fantasia para un gentilhombre, concierto madrigal and concierto andaluz. Plus the many other great non-rodrigo guitar concertos like Brouwer or Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Leaonrd Bernstein/Stephen Sondeim's West Side Story was based on Shakespere's Romeo and Juliet and debued in the 1950s (the same period that saw the debuts of Remo Giazotto's Adagio, Francis Poulenc's Latin Christmas Motets, Gerald Finzi's In Terra Pax, Leroy Anderson's Christmas Festival Overture, Malcolm Arnold's Tam o' Shanter Overture, and Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors).
Love this piece. Al Jarreau’s version turned me on to it but the original is still gorgeous.
Epic!!!
Bravo!
Lovely!
legend
another video, another banger
I loved this episode. Thanks for your efforts!
Don Quixote was depicted in a tone poem by Richard Strauss and a ballet by Ludwig Minkus.
Welcome back and awesome new episode 👏💖
Can you do a episode on another great spanish composer manuel de falla someday? :3 Probably his Noches en los Jardines de España
Wonderful, very touching
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Stravinsky revised his Easter ballet, Petrushka, just 7 years after the debut of this Guitar concerto.
Wow! Interesting!
There was one plucked instrument that you forgot to mention- the harp.
A famous Christmas exmaple from Spain is Pabalo Casels' Song of the Birds for Cello and Paino from the 1970s.
Long before Rodrigo, Vivaldi wrote his Lute and Mandolin concertos.
Great juxtaposition with Guarnica
I used this painting to depict the fall of Carmen's Seville at the hands of Satan.
I have used Guernica to depict the fall of Carmen's Seville in the last act of Bizet's drama.
Can you do Rossini's The Barber of Seville and explain Figaro's Aria. Thanks.
I can explain Figaro's Aria, it's literally just about a barber on his daily routine, commenting how great his life is and how everyone needs him.
@@TomSistermans Wow you really know Opera do you? And did you listening to The Barber of Seville cause I really want to know. Thanks.
I prefer the William Tell overture with the famous galop at the end.
@@TristanMA yeah that too I will love to see it.
@@quintorezwalker5210 yeah, I mean it's not the most obscure opera exactly right? I can recommend though if you're somewhat new to opera, it's a genuinely funny opera and I think the humour still holds up to this day. Story is pretty simple too, it's just about some nobleman who's in love with a woman, but she's being held captive by her stepdad, so he asks the help from the local barber to rescue her.
Can you do Das Klagende Lied by Gustav Mahler? I love that story!
Can you do The Marriage of Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Concerto de orange juice.
Can you talk about swan lake by Tchaikovsky?
Do you have tumbleweed in Spain?
Bro i just woke up yuuuuh
elgar cello concerto next??
My favorite infant is Jesus who would, as an adult, be crucified and then rise again. Would you cover any christmas pieces please (like Vaughan Williams' Fantasias on Greensleeves & Christmas Carols, the Carols of John Rutter, The Pastorales of Corelli Lcoatelli, Manfredini, and Torelli, or Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors)?
This music has a very important place in the history of left politics in Turkey.
Please tell us more
Time to get weird!! Pierrot Lunaire!!
Well this aint smetana but it’ll have to do so when do we get to the Moldau or barted bride
My silly bum thought this was on Aurturo Marquez (who was Mexican, not Spanish) who is also worth looking up for Early 20th Century music, (Recommend Danzon. No. 2) especially since Mexico was dismissed by most westerners as too unrefined to contain any true musical genius.
Uufff, Danzón N2 is godly!
Lemomgrab and soot creatures cameos ?😂
Next do Puccini’s Nessun Dorma!
You mean turandot
Haven't watched yet, isi t Francisco Tárrega ?
1939 was the year Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, begining World War II in Europe.
Note: You pronounced Hondo with an H sound. It does start with H but in Spanish H is never pronounced. So you should say ‘own doe’.
Franco and his Facist regime would not join the axis powers or the allies in World War II. It was a country that tried to stay neutral.
Why would a blind man keep a photograph of his wife?
Most blind people still have some sight. It’s just significantly reduced.
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Funnily ironic, as James Franco would star in a movie where he meets a dictator - _The Interview._
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