Joaquin Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

it's lovelylovelylovely, and lovelier live than on record, though I suppose that's obvious (so long as the guitarist is good, and is using a stool to rest his foot on :)

besides 'Sketches...', there's a nice MJQ version of the Adagio on 'Space' (one of their two late 60s LPs on Apple). lovely, lovely album...

Any interesting facts or observations on the Aranjuez or Rodrigo are welcome, gotta do a presentation on it on Monday. My guitar teacher has written a book on it but its very acedemic and dry. Favourite version? Any films its been used in?

Saw John Williams perform it recently, I disagree with the comment above about it being better live than on cd. We had good seats and his tone was pretty nasty, the strings and woodwind totally drowned him out. He even fucked up a couple of times, perhaps it was a bad day.

Gotta learn that shred section in the second movement, its gorgeous, the fast harp sounding bit is actually strummed rather than plucked which was the bit that really scared me.

this concerto is so much fun ... especially the outer movements

no matter what anyone says, it is gorgeous. but the "3 spanish pieces" for solo guitar take the cake as far as i'm concerned.