Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Dimitri Illarionov (Russia) and FX Quartet performing Second movement, Adagio, from 'Concierto de Aranjuez' by Joaquin Rodrigo.
Live concert at Philarmonia 2, Moscow, Russia
December 7th, 2019
Video by Guitar Magazine
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The second movement, the best-known of the three, is marked by its slow pace and quiet melody, introduced by the cor anglais, with a soft accompaniment by the guitar and strings. A feeling of quiet regret permeates the piece. Ornamentation is added gradually to the melody in the beginning. An off-tonic trill in the guitar creates the first seeds of tension in the piece; they grow and take hold, but relax back to the melody periodically. Eventually, a climactic build-up starts. This breaks back into the main melody, molto appassionato, voiced by the strings with accompaniment from the woodwinds. The piece finally resolves to a calm arpeggio from the guitar, though it is the strings in the background rather than the guitar’s final note that resolve the piece.
On 30 December 1991, Joaquin Rodrigo was raised to the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos I with the title of Marqués de los Jardines de Aranjuez (English: Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez).
guitarmag.net
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Dimitri Illarionov (Russia) and FX Quartet performing Second movement, Adagio, from 'Concierto de Aranjuez' by Joaquin Rodrigo.
Live concert at Philarmonia 2, Moscow, Russia
December 7th, 2019
Video by Guitar Magazine
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The second movement, the best-known of the three, is marked by its slow pace and quiet melody, introduced by the cor anglais, with a soft accompaniment by the guitar and strings. A feeling of quiet regret permeates the piece. Ornamentation is added gradually to the melody in the beginning. An off-tonic trill in the guitar creates the first seeds of tension in the piece; they grow and take hold, but relax back to the melody periodically. Eventually, a climactic build-up starts. This breaks back into the main melody, molto appassionato, voiced by the strings with accompaniment from the woodwinds. The piece finally resolves to a calm arpeggio from the guitar, though it is the strings in the background rather than the guitar’s final note that resolve the piece.
On 30 December 1991, Joaquin Rodrigo was raised to the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos I with the title of Marqués de los Jardines de Aranjuez (English: Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez).
