Concierto de Aranjuez

Concierto de Aranjuez – Voted All Time Best Music by Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999) discovered a way of bringing Spanish music into the 20th century. His solution was to exploit singable melody and to use traditional orchestral timbres; or as the musicologist Tomas Marco puts it: “In form, harmony, melody and rhythm, Rodrigo’s work might be broadly classified as neo-classical”.