Vous Trouvez ça Classique ? Le Concerto d’Aranjuez et la Musique Espagnole

Vous trouvez ça classique?

Do you find it classical? The Concerto d’Aranjuez and Spanish music

Orchestre Appassionato - Mathieu Herzog

Cast: Orchestre Appassionato

Mathieu Herzog, conductor

Philippe Mouratoglu, guitar

Programme: Rodrigo, Concerto d’Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra

Practical information:

Doors open: 1 hour before the start

Concert duration: 1 hour 15 minutes (no interval)

With Vous trouvez ça classique?, change your view of the great works of the repertoire. Alongside Mathieu Herzog and the Orchestre Appassionato, this format offers a lively immersion into the heart of the scores: lighting, listening keys, 'tips' and stories enrich the concert experience. For 1 hour 15 minutes, the conductor speaks directly to the audience with passion, humour and teaching skill, introducing the 'hits' of classical music as well as the surprising anecdotes hidden behind their creation, revealing what makes them still so powerful today. A guitar concerto, what a funny idea: you will never hear the instrument with a full orchestra! Yet Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto d’Aranjuez is a worldwide hit of classical music, and you are certainly able to hum the theme of the Adagio, so beautiful that it has become a standard, covered by Gil Evans and Miles Davis, Fairuz, Jim Hall and even… Demis Roussos! Composed in 1939 in a wounded Spain, this concerto suspends time and leads us into the gardens of the royal palace of Aranjuez, near Madrid, designed at the end of the 18th century as an oasis. The guitar first dances to a fandango rhythm, then enters into a melancholic dialogue with the instruments of the orchestra, the clarinet in particular, and finally dances once more under the sun. A musical emblem of Spain, this concerto never descends into espagnolade and has given the genre a pure masterpiece.