Narciso Yepes - Concerto d’Aranjuez : Adagio

At the height of his career, Narciso Yepes interprets Joaquin Rodrigo’s masterpiece on his 10-string guitar. The conductor is Raphael Frübeck de Burgos with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Frankfurt. Rodrigo: What can I say about Narciso Yepes? What can I say about the guitarist to whom we owe the international success of the Concerto de Aranjuez? Yes, it was in Paris in 1947 where Ataulfo Argenta, Yepes and the Spanish National Orchestra met to illuminate my unique opus at a time when no one new its true future. From then on, the Concierto de Aranjuez took on a new nature, and it is for this same reason that I am grateful to Narciso Yepes for the fruit of an intense collaboration that has brought us to travel our musical trajectories side-by-side. I will not say that Yepes was the best nor the worst. He has simply been my guitarist par excellence. My guitarist. Joaquin Rodrigo in « El Mundo » May 4, 1997 (in commemoration of the Maestro’s passing) Besides the fact that I love thi