Joaquin Rodrigo

The most-loved of all guitar concertos has at its heart, music of great beauty and haunting emotions; sadness, regret and resignation are at the core of…

Placido Domingo turned 75 today and is rightly regarded as one of the greatest operatic tenors of our time. In recent years he's switched to singing…

The Fantasia para un gentilhombre ("Fantasy for a Gentleman") from 1954, was the concerto Andres Segovia did get from Joaquin Rodrigo as a way to make…

English guitarist Nicola Hall will begin the next Fretworks program on Classical 101 with a virtuoso performance of Niccolo Paganini's 24th Solo Violin…

Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo wrote what is probably the best known of all guitar concertos, the Concierto de Aranjuez, in 1939. There is the almost as…