The passion of Flamenco blends with the elegance of courtly dances in the most popular guitar concerto of all time: Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. The work was composed in Paris in 1939 during a ...

It’s one of the first great concertos ever written for the guitar—and it still holds its place as a cornerstone of the repertoire. Mauro Giuliani’s Guitar Concerto No. 1 is smooth, stylish, and shows ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

A portrait of English composer, Sir Malcolm Arnold depicts a man with humor and intensity. You can hear that personality in his work this week on Fretworks. On the next Fretworks, Flutist James Galway ...

As cliché as it may seem for a classical guitar player, my "First Love" would be a tie between Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (yes, the one you hear all the time!) and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ ...

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote his only guitar concerto in 1951 for Andres Segovia, the most famous classical guitarist in the world, originally calling it "Fantasia Concertante." ...

Label: Tom-Tom Records Released: 2020 Duration: 29:33:00 Views: 2,079 The guitar concerto, „Concerto for Jazz Guitar & Chamber Orchestra” was recorded at the end of the year and was released in the ...

Miloš Karadaglić was eight when he noticed the dusty guitar sitting on a shelf in his house in Montenegro. "I think my father had this guitar when he was young, and when he tried to seduce my mother — ...

Charles Hazlewood, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Craig Ogden examine two guitar concertos by Rodrigo - the Concierto de Aranjuez and the Fantasia para un Gentilhombre. The Concierto de Aranjuez, with ...