HISTORY
OF
ARANJUEZ's
CONCERTO
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from childhood, Joaquín RODRIGO began his musical
studies in Spain, then went to Paris where he took lessons
at the Schola Cantorum. It was there that he composed Aranjuez's
Concerto, which, from 1939 made him famous. The challenge
was to write a concerto for guitar!
The
second movement ( adagio of Aranjuez's concerto ) is simply
miraculous and one of the masterpieces of contemporary music.
The magnificent melody is infused with the warm and colourful
Spanish atmosphere and takes its inspiration from a small
musical ornament building slowly and developing into a final
climax of rare beauty.Music is
enriched with a new jewel.
Because
of this the Aranjuez's Concerto has become one of most widely
performed in the world as well as one of the most widely
recorded on CD (The classical version of the guitarist Narciso
YEPES with Garcìa NAVARRO and the Philharmonia Orchestra
is in all respects remarkable). The Aranjuez's Concerto
h
as
often been transcribed for instruments other than the guitar
:
Thus
was it performed by the famous Jazz trumpeter Miles
DAVIS, John LEWIS's MODERN JAZZ QUARTET with Kenny CLARKE
and by the clarinettist and the composer of Sacred music,
Jean-Christian MICHEL. The famous clarinettist recorded
"ARANJUEZ" for the first time in 1968. His arrangement
of Aranjuez's Concerto achieved immense success with the
pressing of a one and a half million discs...
Jean-Christian
MICHEL's Arrangement
The
CD of Aranjuez's concerto has been released !
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Jean-Christian
MICHEL, in the current version of Aranjuez's concerto, (
CD " ARANJUEZ "), has created a magnifiscent new-age
inspired arrangement of RODRIGO's work : the sublime concerto
returns today revisited in a richer grander form.
Jean-Christian
MICHEL performs the theme of the adagio of Aranjuez's concerto
on the clarinet - with enormous
sensitivity and feeling. The magic, incantatory, clear,
an almost transparent sound, exorcises shadow in the vibration
of his breath.
After
the return of the impressive synthesized strings, comes
a long dialogue of "tension - resolution" between
guitar (Nicolas De ANGELIS) and organ
(Monique THUS). This latter great artist completely masters
her art and seems to diffract the colours of a heavenly
watercolour in her organ voices ...
Jean-Christian
MICHEL then resumes the theme of Aranjuez's concerto
using
the warm and sensual tones of the clarinet's bass register,
bringing a delectable moment of peace and calm before the
storm.
Then,
after a last dialogue organ - guitar, the concert performer
Nicolas
De ANGELIS expresses himself with great talent and fierceness
in a climactic guitar solo, accompanied by the rhythm of
bass and castanets, with so much talent and vehemence that
he pulls from his instrument the magnificences of a rainbow
!
The
closing theme of Aranjuez's concerto then explodes with
consummate artistry : violins and synthesizers sing with
passion and fervour, the clarinet
launches powerfully into the high notes, reconciling opposite
and sheding its golden fluid while the rhythm section springs
into pulsating life.
A
short coda on guitar chimes out the last few notes as a
silvery rain...
The
arrangement created by Jean-Christian MICHEL on the CD "ARANJUEZ"
is extremely original and beautiful : it respects the composer's
original music but lights it in modern colours and enhances,
through its modernity, the powerful contrasts of the work
"Jean-Christian
MICHEL's clarinet communicates to the work all its magic
and spiritual dimension …"
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