Rodrigo: Guitar Works, Vol. 1

Featuring

Jérémy Jouve
Judicaël Perroy
Joaquín Rodrigo

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Rodrigo's guitar compositions are considered central to the concert repertoire, integrating Iberian cultural strands and European music.

Critical Reception

Rodrigo's solo guitar works were overshadowed for decades by his famous Concierto de Aranjuez but gained full appreciation from the 1960s onwards.

Compositional Technique

Rodrigo often disregarded the usual technical limitations of instruments, once adding more notes to a cello concerto when a cellist found passages too difficult.

Composer Biography

Despite being a concert pianist and having studied violin, Joaquín Rodrigo never played the guitar.

Composer Biography

Joaquín Rodrigo, the composer, was blind from childhood but wrote almost two hundred works across various genres.

Recording & Production

The album includes an arrangement of Fandango del ventorrillo for two guitars by Pepe Romero, published in 1993.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Rodrigo's guitar compositions are not progressive studies or 'easy' pieces, but committed artistic statements intended to honor Spain's national instrument.