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

You find that classical? , change your perspective on the great works of the repertoire.

Alongside Mathieu Herzog and the Appassionato Orchestra, this format offers a live immersion into the heart of the scores: lighting, listening keys, 'tips' and narratives enrich the concert experience.

For 1h15, the conductor addresses the audience directly with passion, humor and pedagogy to showcase the "hits" of classical music, but also the surprising anecdotes hidden behind their creation, revealing what makes them still so powerful today.

A concerto for guitar, what a funny idea, you'd never hear the instrument with a whole orchestra!

Yet Joaquín Rodrigo's Aranjuez Concerto is a worldwide hit of classical music and you are certainly able to hum the theme of the Adagio, so beautiful that it became 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 eighteenth century as an oasis.

The guitar first dances to a fandango rhythm, then weaves a melancholic dialogue with the orchestra instruments, notably the clarinet, and dances again in the sun. Musical emblem of Spain, this concerto never ventures into Spanishness and has given the genre a pure masterpiece.

With Mathieu Herzog, the Appassionato Orchestra and Philippe Mouratoglu, immediate boarding for a timeless journey through the beaut