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Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

Xuefei Yang (guitar)

Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona, Eiji Oue

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Concierto de Aranjuez has been recorded countless times, but Xuefei Yang brings her own exuberant individuality to it, demonstrating brilliant, fleet-fingered technique in the outer movements...

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

Xuefei Yang (guitar)

Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona, Eiji Oue

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Concierto de Aranjuez has been recorded countless times, but Xuefei Yang brings her own exuberant individuality to it, demonstrating brilliant, fleet-fingered technique in the outer movements...

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EMI Classics releases Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with Chinese guitarist Xuefei Wang. The album also includes the World Premiere recording of a new concerto by Stephen Goss, Albéniz Concerto, based on four of the composer’s most well-know works for guitar, the rarely recorded transcriptions for guitar of Albéniz’s suite España – 6 hojas de album and Rodrigo’s Invocación y danza, which Xuefei played for her international debut in Madrid when she was just 14 years old.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro con spirito
Track length6:09
II. Adagio
Track length11:13
III. Allegro gentile
Track length5:12
El Albaicin
Track length7:38
Cataluña
Track length2:45
Evocación
Track length8:24
Cadenza
Track length4:06
Aragón
Track length5:33
Malagueña
Track length3:27
Serenata
Track length3:19
Capricho Catalán
Track length3:20
Zortizco
Track length2:28

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Awards and reviews

February 2011

Concierto de Aranjuez has been recorded countless times, but Xuefei Yang brings her own exuberant individuality to it, demonstrating brilliant, fleet-fingered technique in the outer movements and a subtle flamenco earthiness in the romantic second movement that you don't often hear...she captures all the sunshine and dusty clamour of the music.

February 2011

Thanks to Yang's synthesising mind, of which her frightening technical fluency and musical intelligence are but two manifestations, this programme works a treat. The Rodrigo concerto is replete with that barely contained explosiveness that recalls Argerich at her best

5th November 2010

Xuefei Yang's touch throughout this programme of Spanish pieces is stunning, with nimble fingering of trills and runs, and subtly emotional phrasing in the slower passages...Albeniz's "Espana" suite offers Yang space to display her full solo talents, using a guitar with a more mellifluous, rounded Spanish tone.

4th February 2012

the performances won’t please all ears: clipped, stark and with a hard sound from the Elias Quartet. It works best in the slow movements, where the strings bring out the sinuous false-relations, and when they temper their austerity with nimble articulation and cheery ornaments. The guitarist, too, seems to shirk from romanticising the music in any way. But it’s all done with crystalline clarity.
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