CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ WITH PLÍNIO FERNANDES
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Performers
- Britten Sinfonia
- Plínio Fernandes
- guitar
- Tom Fetherstonhaugh
- conductor
Programme
- Wagner
- Siegfried Idyll
- Rodrigo
- Concierto de Aranjuez
- Beethoven
- Symphony No. 1
Britten Sinfonia and Plínio Fernandes join together to perform Rodrigo's immensely popular guitar concerto.
Inspired by the gardens at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, the concerto was described by the composer as painting “the fragrance of magnolias, the singing of birds, and the gushing of fountains” – and yet, written in Paris as war closed in in 1939, the music also contains moments of brooding and darkness.
Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll was written as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried, and was first performed on Christmas morning 1870, on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen. By contrast, this stunning programme closes with a real celebration of summer, Beethoven’s effervescent First Symphony.