CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ (ADAGIO)
Created on 17/11/2011Latest update on 02/01/2024
Artist: Regino Sainz de la Maza
Author: Joaquin Rodrigo
Label: Columbia
Year: 1948
On guitar with the Orchestra Nacional de España with Ataulfo Argenta conducting. First performed in Barcelona in 1940 with the same guitarist and the Orquesta Filarmonica de Barcelona with César Mendoza Lasalle conducting. Many performers were not aware the concerto (in three parts - the Adagio is the middle one) is not older than 1938. Rodrigo missed out on a lot of royalties that way.
Covers:
- 1958:
Renata Tarragó [oldest recording released, on Hispavox]
- 1960:
Miles Davis [on Sketches Of Spain; the hit version, no less]
- 1961:
Nana Mouskouri [as Aranjuez, Melodie]
- 1964:
Modern Jazz Quartet [with Laurindo Almeida]
- 1967:
Richard Anthony [as Aranjuez, mon amour; top 10 Fr; lyrics: Guy Bontempelli; also in Spanish]
- 1967:
- 1967:
Remo Four [produced by George Harrison]
- 1967:
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke [Tony Ashton and Roy Dyke were members of The Remo Four]
- 1967:
Dalida [as Aranjuez La Tua Voce]
- 1967:
Mina [as Trenodia]
- 1968:
Sandie Shaw [als A, mon amour]
- 1971:
Manuel & His Music Of The Mountains [as Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez; n°3 UK in '76]
- 1971:
Los Mayas [top 10 NL]
- 1972:
Thérèse Steinmetz [as Manuel (Aranjuez Mon Amour)]
- 1972:
Chick Corea & Return To Forever [intro Spain on lp Light As A Feather]
- 1974:
- 1976:
- 1977:
- 1978:
- 1978:
Jan Akkerman [with Claus Ogerman]
- 1978:
- 1980:
Al Jarreau [as Spain (I Can Recall); building on the Chick Corea arrangement]
- 1982:
Demis Roussos [as Follow Me - Adagio Movement Of The Concerto d'Aranjuez]
- 1982:
Gheorghe Zamfir [as Aranjuez mon amour]
- 1988:
Piet Veerman [as Follow Me]
- 1992:
Spinal Tap [main theme sampled in Break Like The Wind]
- 1993:
Rosenberg Trio [as Spain]
- 1995:
Helmut Lotti [as All My Love]
- 1996:
- 1997:
Sarah Brightman [as En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor]
- 2001:
- 2002:
Fairuz [as Li Beirut]
- 2002:
