There is a sad history behind this masterpiece, Maestro Rodrigo lost his newborn daughter and his wife was extremelly sick. Is a song to God, on the one hand, he reproaches him for his daughter being born dead and, on the other, implores him to save his wife. Once this history is known this beautifull adagio is full of sense.
I play guitar as a hobby and was compelled to comment. The discipline to play on the level of John Williams is superhuman. He is a treasure and the apex of humanity. The world needs less greed/suffering and more music.
I ABSOLUTELY agree! I’m not musical myself but I listen for hours each week to beautiful music!!! There’s nothing soothes the soul, heals or stirs emotion the way music does. Sometimes you can become excited and want to say to someone “listen to this music, it will make your heart soar!” It’s so evocative in many ways and whatever you love becomes so personal to oneself… 🎶 🎵 ❤️❤️❤️
Absolute chills every single time I hear this masterpiece. I can only imagine what the live audience felt as they listened to this masterful interpretation. Magnificent, absolutely magnificent!!!!❤
Ich fühle die warme Hand in meinem Nacken die mir sagt daß alles gut ist und die Liebe NOCH da ist wenn man sie sehen kann. Das wünsche ich jedem Menschen von Herzen.
My Mum adored this...it's 5 years ago this Tuesday that she died, and I am sitting here moved to tears by the absolute power and beauty of this. If grief truly were the inspiration, then it fits that perfectly.
+Natasha Weldon I'm sorry to hear of your Mom's passing. I lost my Mum 5 years ago in January. It's OK to be moved to tears by things you remember your Mum by. For all that, my Mom liked Elvis Presley, Gene Pitney, Englebert Humperdink, and Roy Orbison :-) I'm happy to say not so long ago we used to lye on the beach in the Caribbean and she'd cry her heart out while listening to Roy Orbison's 'Crying'. Back to this music, I first heard this piece on a 'Young Musicians of the Year' show in the UK way back when....I bought John's album on vinyl on the back of that show back in the '80s.... frankly, to my untrained ear, that young man played it much better, John's left hand made a lot of 'noise' when moving on the fret board (I'm not the first to notice this) If you are tempted to buy the album get the best the critics recommend.I'm sure your Mum would be happy she's in your thoughts. Look after you now...
Amiga QT.Rehead: No sientas pena amiga, seguro estoy que tu mamá ya se habrá encontrado, allí, entre las estrellas, con nuestro Gran Maestro Rodrigo, y se darán largos paseos por el Universo Galáctico Infinito. Abrazos, y muchos recuerdos.
Why do you religious people always give credit to your god.? The credit goes to Mr. Williams...for his dedicated years and years of training..and talent. Credit where credit is due..
John Williams Emulated Joquin Rodrigo ,believing him to be the greatest Guitar and piano player ever to be born . This piece written after Rodrigo,s wife gave birth to his dead son, the strumming if the guitar is the beating heart of the baby . Rodrigo,s loss was for his child and his wife nearly dying too . hence this soul wrenching masterpiece .
Exquisite, absolutely one of the most beautiful pieces of classical music ever composed. It evokes longing- of lost love, of those dearly departed or of love to come.
I am watching this and about to write it down into the music for my father’s funeral. He loved this piece so much. I’ve loved it too for many years and now forever will associate it with thoughts of him. He’ll enjoy this and his favourite Rachmaninov from somewhere in the distant reaches of time where I can no longer talk with him, but where the warm teardrops of this music will always be in his heart... Rest in peace to this beautiful music, dad x
this was mine and my husbands favorite piece - he passed away two years ago and I played it at his funeral. Listening to it every time brings tears to my eyes, just like now. Beautiful piece
Every time I listen to this piece I close my eyes and see a herd of beautiful magnificent Andalusian stallions galloping across the country side . Their tails and manes flowing in the breeze.
NOVIT, QUE BUENA EXPLICACION!! LO IGNORABA!!! PERO SIN SABER PORQUE' ME GUSTO' SIEMPRE!!! HERMOSA INTERPRETACION!!! VIVA ESPAÑA TODAAAA!!! SALUDOS DESDE URUGUAY.🇪🇸💓👋
Sublime music from my most beloved SPAIN ESPAÑA. Beatifuly played by Mr Williams and a fabulous orchestra conducted by Maestro Pappano. Guitar will for ever the authentic instrument for Spanish great music. Outstanding composer Joaquín Rodrigo.
Aranjuez is like a love story that took place in that town or someone met his soul mate during a summer time vacations and don’t want go back. Those notes express nostalgia like you missed the woman of your life.
The world seems to be in a state of abject turmoil at present, but this is an antidote to it all. Williams is a master craftsman and the arrangement is exquisite. There is no other deity that comes close to this level of musical perfection.
The others just cant get the approach notes or the phrasing and intensity of Williams ( my name also Huh) that was written by a man ( Rodrigo)who had just lost a child in birth and his wifes' life was hanging in the balance too. He Had the courage , capacity ( and ability) to STILL write this masterpiece.
listened many times to the flugelhorn version, especially that in Brassed Off, and only found out today it was originally written for the guitar. So, I looked for it and came across this - MY GOD! it is by far the best..... I don`t think I will ever get tired of listening to this...
We have a CD of an interview they made with the composer about this piece. The beginning was the heartbeat and then grief. This composition is one bare emotion of the composer. It make the music more than just beautiful...
No matter where in the world I am, when I hear this master work I am immediately transported to the Meseta in northern Spain, walking yet again on the Camino towards Santiago de Compostela
Such a wonderful piece of music and beautifully play by John Williams and the entire orchestra. I was entranced from beginning to end ..... magical experience !
It is one of the most beautiful music compositions ever. Full of sorrow but strikingly beautiful and what a joy to hear Master guitarist John Williams performing it.
Silahların ruhlarımızı kararttığı dünyada, müziğin evrensel diliyle ruhlarımızın aydınlanacağı bir dünyada yaşama ümidimizi ve gayretimizi artıran tüm sanat emekçilerine selam olsun.
my late grandad played this on a on lp in the 70s, after getting me to say what the piece was in Spanish. He said it reminded of home, he was an exile from Catalonia, having fought in the civil war and had to flee Spain.
There was a documentary on BBC Radio 4 about Rodrigo. It mentioned that he wrote this movement of his concierto d'aranjuez after he had heard that his son had died. I can't listen to it now without feeling his anguish and pain in the music.
Gran pieza musical del músico y compositor Español Joaquín Rodrigo i Vidre, nacido en Sagunto y que en los veranos de su jubilación disfrutó de la paz de la playa de los olivos en Cullera.
Самая прекрасная музыка на планете.. Каждый вечер - слушаю. и наслаждаюсь, Как много в ней недосказанной судьбы.. Судьбы невернувшихся из моря.. И о тех, то ждал на берегу..
Utter nonsense. I could say that loving it was a sign of a lack of intelligence - it's not exactly difficult to 'understand' after all - but I wouldn't be so crass@@longboardwoddy
A alguien mas los hace llorar? Invariablemente, tal majestuosidad, tal excelencia, tal exquisitez... y además, no se, el Concierto de Aranjuez, por lo menos en el sur yo lo oía desde muy chiquito. Fabuloso de verdad!!!! Salud a todos!!!
Una de las más hermosas obras que gracias a Dios existe, ese oboe se mete en la piel, o será que es mi instrumento preferido, trasmite melancolía, amo esta pieza.
La historia que encierra el Concierto de Aranjuez: En 1933 Joaquín Rodrigo y su esposa, la pianista turca Victoria Kamhi, pasaron su luna de miel en Aranjuez (de ahí el nombre de Concierto de Aranjuez). Un tiempo después se fueron a Alemania. Allí esperaban tener a su primer hijo. El niño nació muerto y su mujer estuvo a punto de morir. En el segundo movimiento Joaquín cuestiona a Dios (orquesta) por el aborto espontáneo que ha tenido su mujer, perdiendo a su hijo y rogando que su mujer se mantuviera viva; esto se expresa mediante el pulso de la guitarra (al comienzo del segundo movimiento), que representa un corazón latiendo. El movimiento tiene pena, rabia y desesperación. Al final, en el clímax de la guitarra y la orquesta (que representa a Dios), Joaquín Rodrigo "oye a Dios" y por fin se produce la rendición y aceptación de los hechos, hasta alcanzar la paz tan anhelada por Joaquín Rodrigo (final del concierto).
Gracias, esto no lo sabia, habia aceptado (quizas de manera perezosa) la narativa popular que la obra estaba solamente una expresión del compositor de la ciudad de Aranjuez y de su Palacio de Verano con su Sala de Porcelana (que visitó hace muchos años). Hace quasi medio siglo yá, vi a Narciso Yepes al Royal Albert Hall tocando el Concierto de Aranjuez y jamás lo olvidaré. Para una muy joven mujer, fue una descubierta inesperada de una cultura muy diferente de la mia. "The soul of Spain" was how this young woman perceived it. Lo que ha escrito Vd añade una dimension nueva y otra y tan poderosa en emoción a la obra. Gracias de nuevo. Disculpe los erores en mi castellano! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RxwceLlaODM.html&ab_channel=bonsillens
Hello . I really think all of you should also check out a Philips recording done in 1994 by Pepe Romero with the Academy of St Martin in the fields under Sir Neville Marriner . I say this because of the concise break down including time stamps . Which you can access in the description . This was uploaded onto RU-vid on LindoroRossini's YT channel [Feb 1 2011] It's a very beautiful version of which even Joaquin himself praised . Pepe Romero was not finely versed with notes and came from a flamenco back ground and so interpreted it according to rhythm .
The composer & his wife were happily honeymooning, enjoying Royal Gardens, when she suffered a miscarriage. THAT sound, at 9:18, is his heartbreak I believe.
It sent me back to the first time I heard it on tape when it was first released when John Williams was performing the second movement with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy. Unfortunately the first and third movement of the Concierto de Aranjuez was omitted because of the lack of space with the tape cassette so I purchased the complete album on cd many years later. I still have the original cd.
Deepest thanks for sharing the inspirational circumstances that inspired the great Rodrigo to write this masterpiece. As with all amazing music it can trigger personal emotional life changing memories in any one of us. For me it is an eternal blessing.
Listen to his dynamics and depth, and try to understand its breath, for it is an expression of despair, love and triumph, far beyond any singular touch! As emotions are hard to capture and so is the will of man. When you hear a master at work on his guitar, it's more than awesome, it is breath taking, which can even make angels cry, and move them to do great things! I know am blessed to have been able to hear such goodness in my lifetime!
