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Victoria de los Ángeles - Songs of Spain [4CDs] (1998)

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Victoria de los Ángeles - Songs of Spain [4CDs] (1998)

Victoria de los Ángeles - Songs of Spain [4CDs] (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.18 Gb | Total time: 05:00:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 7243 5 66937 2 2 | Recorded: 1950-1992

Nothing could be more appropriate in celebrating Victoria de los Angeles’s 75th birthday than this extensive conspectus of her recordings of Spanish song over 40 years. It’s hardly possible in a brief review to do justice to such an astonishing achievement on the part of the Spanish soprano; indeed had she sung nothing else her place in recorded history would be assured.

Narciso Yepes - Malagueña. Spanish Guitar Music: Albéniz, Falla, Granados, Rodrigo, Tárrega, Ruiz-Pipó, Sanz, Soler, Sor (2000)

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Narciso Yepes - Malagueña. Spanish Guitar Music: Albéniz, Falla, Granados, Rodrigo, Tárrega, Ruiz-Pipó, Sanz, Soler, Sor (2000)

Narciso Yepes - Malagueña. Spanish Guitar Music: Albéniz, Falla, Granados, Rodrigo, Tárrega, Ruiz-Pipó, Sanz, Soler, Sor (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 76:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutche Grammophon | # 469 649-2 | Recorded: 1968, 1971, 1977

The popularity of the guitar has never waned and the sun-drenched sound of Spanish guitar music is one of the instrument’s most popular incarnations. At the helm of performers of this style of guitar music is Narciso Yepes who recorded vast amounts of guitar music for Deutsche Gramophon. This collection brings together some of the gems from among these recordings and indeed, from the body of work for Spanish guitar.

Jacob Kellermann - Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez and works by Francisco Coll & Pete Harden (2020)

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Jacob Kellermann - Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez and works by Francisco Coll & Pete Harden (2020)

Jacob Kellermann, Christian Karlsen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Norrbotten NEO - Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez and works by Francisco Coll & Pete Harden (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 63:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2485 SACD | Recorded: 2019

When guitarist Jacob Kellermann and conductor Christian Karlsen devised the programme of this recording, one inspiration was the legendary jazz album Sketches of Spain on which Miles Davis performed arrangements of Spanish folk music, along with a version of the Adagio from Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. Rodrigo’s work is a re-imagining of times past and of courtly life in the gardens of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, and as such it is the perfect opening to Kellermann’s and Karlsen’s project, intended to conjure up Spain ‘as if through a prism – as a concept rather than a place’. In order to achieve this they have enlisted the help of Francisco Coll and Pete Harden, who have each contributed a concertante work for guitar and ensemble.

Alicia de Larrocha, London PO; Fruhbeck de Burgos - Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Albeniz; Turina (1984)

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Alicia de Larrocha, London PO; Fruhbeck de Burgos - Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Albeniz; Turina (1984)

Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain;
Isaac Albéniz: Rapsodia Española; Joaquín Pérez Turina: Rapsodia sinfonica
Alicia de Larrocha, piano; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 224 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 140 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 410 289-2 | Time: 00:52:05

This was Alicia de Larrocha’s finest account of Nights in the Gardens of Spain, fully capturing the Andalusian atmosphere of this evocative score. After all, it’s not a work about landscapes and flowers – it’s about love. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos does a superb job of drawing perfume and color out of an English orchestra.