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Rodrigo: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

Ricardo Gallen (guitar)

Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Maximiano Valdes

The focus of these three volumes is on concertos, the most popular and arguably the best segment of Rodrigo's orchestral music. The best known are those for guitar and orchestra, of the very...

Rodrigo: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

Ricardo Gallen (guitar)

Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Maximiano Valdes

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The focus of these three volumes is on concertos, the most popular and arguably the best segment of Rodrigo's orchestral music. The best known are those for guitar and orchestra, of the very...

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Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro con spirito
Track length6:09
II. Adagio
Track length11:06
III. Allegro gentile
Track length5:19
Villano y Ricercare
Track length4:27
II. Españoleta y fanfare de la caballería de Nápoles
Track length10:01
Danza de las Hachas
Track length2:07
Fantasia para un gentilhombre: IV. Canario
Track length5:05
Tempo di bolero
Track length8:01
Adagio - Allegro - Allegretto - Tempo I
Track length10:08
Allegretto
Track length6:14

Awards and reviews

2010

The focus of these three volumes is on concertos, the most popular and arguably the best segment of Rodrigo's orchestral music. The best known are those for guitar and orchestra, of the very numerous recordings of which these are 'good enough to keep'. Lest anyone might think that the Concierto para piano y orquesta listed on Volume 4 is a previously overlooked work, it's in fact the Concierto heroico in modestly repackaged form. Achúcarro revised it with the composer's consent to make the work 'slightly more dynamic'. This is now the definitive form and performance of the concerto. The 'symphonic essay' Juglares (1923) was Rodrigo's first orchestral work, brief but characteristic of the music of Valencia, where he lived before going to Paris to study. It has no other current recording. All the remaining works on these three discs have alternative recordings but though one may prefer the warmer-sounding version of the Concierto de estío by Agustín León Ara, the composer's son-inlaw, on the EMI set, these recordings are in every respect comparable with the 'opposition'.
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