According to the booklet notes of this 2002 release, reissued in 2009 on Harmonia Mundi's Gold budget line, Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez was the most frequently recorded concerto in the classical repertoire at the time. There's no reason to doubt that assertion, especially with the new tradition some of the music has carved out within the jazz tradition. But the diversity of the performances available, perhaps because the work's performance traditions were heavily shaped by early players like Narciso Yepes, didn ...
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According to the booklet notes of this 2002 release, reissued in 2009 on Harmonia Mundi's Gold budget line, Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez was the most frequently recorded concerto in the classical repertoire at the time. There's no reason to doubt that assertion, especially with the new tradition some of the music has carved out within the jazz tradition. But the diversity of the performances available, perhaps because the work's performance traditions were heavily shaped by early players like Narciso Yepes, didn't match their sheer numbers. After a while, major new performances of the work became rarer. This recording cleared the high bar set for it, with a fresh reading of the Concierto de Aranjuez joined to an attractive selection of other Rodrigo works, all very nicely recorded. The concerto is the nicest of all, with deliberate tempos in the two outer movements revealing the delicate combinations of the guitar with other small groups of instruments. There's no need here for the unnatural...
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