One for the weekend: Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) – Fantasía para un gentilhombre
Bust of the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo, with an image of his wife, the pianist Victoria Kamhi, in the background. España Park, Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina by Mrexcel – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4585287
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist.
Fantasía para un gentilhombre (Fantasia for a Gentleman) is a concerto for guitar and orchestra.
The four movements were based on six short dances for solo guitar by the 17th-century Spanish composer Gaspar Sanz, taken from a three-volume work (1674, 1675, 1697) now commonly known as Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española (Musical Instruction on the Spanish Guitar). Most of the movements retain the names that Sanz originally gave them. Rodrigo expanded on Sanz’s themes to produce a work lasting more than 20 minutes.
Here it is in full. As always, I wish you a restful weekend.
