Great Night of Spanish Music

The classical guitar, the real star of the evening, will accompany you through Euroconcert’s “Great Night of Spanish Music”, a vibrant taste of Spain through three works that have made this country’s history of music.

The heart of the concert will be Joaquín Rodrigo’s most renowned, most represented and recorded classical piece: the ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’. Thanks to his world-famous work for guitar and orchestra, Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) can be today cited as one of the most popular Spanish composers. His composition will be presented by soloist guitarist Rolando Saad. This remarkable Argentinean artist has represented Concierto de Aranjuez more than 600 times in Europe’s most prestigious concert halls, even in the presence of the composer himself during a tribute.

The ‘Great Night of Spanish Music” will carry on with the various fragments of “El Amor Brujo” by Manuel de Falla. The debut of “El Amor Brujo” in Madrid’s Teatro Lara in 1915 is to be seen as an important event in the history of flamenco ballet, a genre that never before was given the honor of being represented by an orchestra in a theatre. Through Manuel de Falla’s work, Spain rightfully enters the international music scene. The purpose of “El Amor Brujo” is to capture the Andalusan gipsy spirit and present it to the public through it energetic music and contagious rhythm.

The South of Spain is once again the background of the third great work presented along the evening: “Carmen”, the most important piece of Georges Bizet, a triangle of love and jealousy, whose main characters will be Carmen, the seductive gipsy woman, Don José, the officer, and Escamillo, the bull fighter, even made it out of the theatres to land on cinema screens and ballet choreographies.