Joaquin Rodrigo

(Miniature Score)-Joaqu n Rodrigo’s Concierto Serenata inhabits a world of beauty and grace rarely found in the music of the 20th century. With its formal perfection numerous melodies and delicate but brilliant writing for soloist and orchestra the Concierto Serenata is a cornerstone of the modern Harp repertoire and one of its composer’s most attractive works. Orchestra score. Duration approximately 23 minutes.Joaqu n Rodrigo was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. Rodrigo's music is among the most popular music of the 20th century in particular his Concierto de Aranjuez is considered one of the pinnaclesof Spanish music and of the Guitar concerto repertoire. Although distinguished by having raised the Spanish Guitar to dignity as a universal concert instrument and best known for his Guitar music the blind composer never mastered the instrument himself.

Impromptu Para Arpa is a piece for solo Harp. It was composed in 1959 following a commission from the Royal Music Conservatory of Madrid and first performed by Ana Mar a Martini Gil in the same year. Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) was born in Valencia and lost his sight to diphtheria at the age of three which is believed to have heightened his hearing and inspired him to pursue a musical career. He began to study music five years later and became one of Spain’s most distinguished composers musicologists and pedagogues.

Reduction for Harp and Piano written in 1952 for the distinguished harpist Nicanor Zabaleta. This is the fifth of Rodrigo's eleven concertos. This is a cornerstone of the modern harp repertoire and one of the composer's most attractive works.