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"The Spanish National Orchestra makes its Proms debut under Chief Conductor David Afkham, bringing with it a set of heat-soaked musical postcards. Spanish guitar phenomenon Rafael Aguirre joins the ensemble for Rodrigo’s much-loved Concierto de Aranjuez – an elegant, idealised vision of Spain’s past. The orchestra transforms itself into a giant guitar in two Ravel classics: the pulsing seguidilla serenade Alborada del gracioso and the hypnotic thrum of Boléro. The adventures of a miller, his beautiful young wife and an amorous magistrate become a vivid series of dances in music from Manuel de Falla’s ballet The Three-Cornered Hat.
Any excuse to post the most joyful video in the world again!
(The Gipsy Kings, and, here, the son and grandchildren of one of the original members, are members of the Gitano community. They are descendants of Catalunyan and Andalusian Gipsy families who fled persecution in the Civil War and early Franco years by crossing the border to Southern France)
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Spanish music thread on 08:35 - Jul 20 with 432 views
"The Spanish National Orchestra makes its Proms debut under Chief Conductor David Afkham, bringing with it a set of heat-soaked musical postcards. Spanish guitar phenomenon Rafael Aguirre joins the ensemble for Rodrigo’s much-loved Concierto de Aranjuez – an elegant, idealised vision of Spain’s past. The orchestra transforms itself into a giant guitar in two Ravel classics: the pulsing seguidilla serenade Alborada del gracioso and the hypnotic thrum of Boléro. The adventures of a miller, his beautiful young wife and an amorous magistrate become a vivid series of dances in music from Manuel de Falla’s ballet The Three-Cornered Hat.
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Spanish music thread on 08:39 - Jul 20 with 408 views
Regarding the Spanish Civil War, this is a lovely version of a song written by Euan MacColl.
It tells the story of a shipyard worker from the Clyde who goes to fight with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and is killed at Gandesa.
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Spanish music thread on 08:51 - Jul 20 with 355 views
Absolutely beautiful piece isn't it, haunting - first heard it in mid-teens when owners* of a posh pad I was working & living in for Xmas/New Year put it on their even posher sound system - stopped me in my tracks, and have never tired of it since.
*He was editor of a Sunday nationals magazine, my duties included waiting on Auberon Waugh at one meal - a very unpleasant, rude man (for that duration anyway).
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