The Guitar takes the lead - Concierto de Aranjuez | Classical Music Reaction 

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Also the constant chord of the guitar in the 2nd movement is describing the sound of the fading heartbeat of the child. Also, about being blind, so far there are 3 famous composers who are blind. Rodrigo, bach, and handel.

@@SofiAmadeus I'm sorry but your example of blind composers is just wrong. Bach and Handel suffered from cataract, like many older people do, as the lense in the eye gets cloudy. That doesn't make them blind composers. It only became a probem in their final years. (The historical irony is that they both turned to the same quack named John Taylor to have their lenses cleared. Bach died from complications/infection caused by his unsterile operating instruments and the "bright" idea to use pigeon blood as a cleansing agent and Handel totally lost all eyesight. But he wasn't composing at that time any longer anyway.) Rodrigo was blind from the age of 4, as a complication from a diphteria infection. Another famous composer who was blind from birth was Louis Vierne.

@@Quotenwagnerianer didn't they turn blind first for months before actually dying? I would consider that as being blind. Although I do understand that saying it that way might mislead people into thinking that they're blind most of their life.

@@SofiAmadeus Handel did, as a result of the surgery. Maybe it's matter of definition. Blind does not necesarilly mean that you are unable to see anything at all, just like deaf does not mean that you don't hear a thing. They were both impaired enough that they turned to a "doctor" to fix it. Too bad the guy was a fraud.

@@Quotenwagnerianer Vierne, like me, had congenital cataracts. His vision was impaired, but he could still see large print.

ps:you should have reacted to paco de Lucia version(it is more unique, and he is the best guitarrist ever)

A great album!

That is a viola made by David Rivinus. There's a video on RU-vid (with his name misspelled as Ravinus) of him talking about it - it's named "David Ravinus explains Pellegrina Ergonomic Viola". He designed the alternative viola shape to overcome the difficulties of playing 17 + inch violas for long periods.

Yeah, I noticed that. Odd-looking thing

@@Tunarth Yeah, I noticed it too. I've had the chance to try one of those -- for a while I played in an orchestra with someone who owned one. There's been a lot of experimentation with viola shapes because the viola is a compromise between acoustics and playability.

@@Tunarth Yes, Don Ehrlich also played one when he was assistant principal viola in the San Francisco Symphony, to alleviate stress injuries.

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Although Paco's effort was fair and enjoyable is not even close, this is not flamenco and even the flamenco guitar itself differs from a classical guitar. I'd recommend many other versions before Paco de Lucía's

It's classical guitar and Joaquín Rodrigo, the composer, was from Valencia, not Andalucía, stop misleading people if you don't know about it

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@@JulioLeonFandinho You can keep them, Miles is to mid 20th century Jazz as Beethoven is to early German romanticism.

@@mattbalfe2983 Americans overrating jazz music, typical... Miles Davis don't even hold a candle to Scott Joplin, Gershwin, Charles Ives... let alone true composers like all these classical ones, who has to harmonize 80 instruments and be original and interesting at the same time. Now think better, what melody made up Miles Davis remotely close to the immortal one of the adagio movement in Concierto de Aranjuez, what one? And for the record, I love Davis music, at least until the 60s when he thought he could be also a hippie and ended in the 80s wearing clothes like my mother and making that horrendous funk-fusion crap nobody cares, because sounds like a monkey farting