Classical Journey: Spain

Various (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 23, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B000001VSC
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #555,325 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra: Allegro con spirito - Adagio

2. Suite española No. 1, for piano, Op. 47, B. 7: Castilla No. 7

3. Ritual Fire Dance, for orchestra (from 'El Amor brujo')

4. España, rhapsody for orchestra, also arranged for 2 pianos

5. Capriccio espagnol (Kaprichchio na ispankskiye temï), for orchestra, Op. 34

6. Carmen Suite for orchestra No. 1 (assembled by Ernest Guirard)

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars It ain't just castanets and tambourines, August 10, 2009

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The single page essay included with DELTA LASERLIGHT's album CLASSICAL JOURNEY: SPAIN claims that musically, until the late-19th Century Spain was practically a province of Italy. Of these compositions that we identify as 'Spanish,' only the first three here were composed by natives-- Bizet ('Carmen') and Chabrier ('Espana') being Frenchmen while Rimsky-Korsakov ('Capriccio Espagnol') was Russian.

For what it's worth however, Italian-born soundtrack writer Ennio Morricone's early spaghetti western scores may have been inspired by Rodrigo, so in recent years the trend seems to have gone the other way. A good example of this is "Ecstasy of Gold" from his THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY album.

The Albeniz piece is performed by two competent guitarists and as such has a fine lilting feel. The four featured orchestras appear on any number of DELTA CDs and are always a delight to listen to. To single out one, the Hungarian State unit does marvelously on a sixteen minute "Capriccio."

Finally, these DDD recordings have uniformly excellent sound. Recommended!

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 58:55