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188K views · 5.6K reactions | Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is one of the pinnacles of classical guitar music, inspired by the gardens at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez and evoking images of nature and courtly love. This rendition by virtuoso guitarist John Williams is as good as we've heard this masterpiece sound, recorded at the Waldbühne in 1998 with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Daniel Barenboim! https://bit.ly/40qtXiw | medici.tv | Facebook

The Concierto de Aranjuez was composed in Paris in 1939 and given its première in Barcelona in 1940. As they say, the rest is history; it is probably the most performed solo concerto written in the twentieth century. It takes its name from the beautiful, extensive gardens of the Palacio Real de Aranjuez, home of the Bourbon kings of Spain. The sightless composer knew the gardens well, and wrote that his concerto reflected “the fragrance of the magnolias, the singing of birds and the gushing of f

Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is one of the pinnacles of classical guitar music, inspired by the gardens at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez and evoking images of nature and courtly love. This rendition by virtuoso guitarist John Williams is as good as we've heard this masterpiece sound, recorded at the Waldbühne in 1998 with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Daniel Barenboim! https://bit.ly/40qtXiw | medici.tv