Anyone else hearing hints of SKETCHES OF SPAIN in the brass during the first third, as in Miles Davis/Gil Evans, stacked diads? Maybe this is the direct source of part of SKETCHES? I’d assumed Gil Evans invented of those rich brass sonorities- but maybe Rodrigo deserves the accolades.
I presume this to be a later arrangement of Rodrigo's Adagio from Concerto de Aranjuez which was indeed part of Sketches of Spain. However, Gil Evans arrangements for that Miles Davis album predate by a good few years the 1966 arrangement by Rodrigo himself. Perhaps he was flattered by the Evans/Davis treatment of Aranjuez and acknowledged what they'd done by using the wind ensemble here?
@Brad4Ellis.....Further digging reveals that Rodrigo was not at all happy about his music being used by Davis/Evans without his permission. And yet, the wind arrangement here does bear some resemblance to Evans so...who knows?
Rodrigo forever!
Remarkable music. Rodrigo is the Spanish Stravinsky.
Anyone else hearing hints of SKETCHES OF SPAIN in the brass during the first third, as in Miles Davis/Gil Evans, stacked diads? Maybe this is the direct source of part of SKETCHES? I’d assumed Gil Evans invented of those rich brass sonorities- but maybe Rodrigo deserves the accolades.
I presume this to be a later arrangement of Rodrigo's Adagio from Concerto de Aranjuez which was indeed part of Sketches of Spain. However, Gil Evans arrangements for that Miles Davis album predate by a good few years the 1966 arrangement by Rodrigo himself. Perhaps he was flattered by the Evans/Davis treatment of Aranjuez and acknowledged what they'd done by using the wind ensemble here?
@@maxmerry8470 I think that’s quite solid musical archeology. Thank you for the analysis!
@Brad4Ellis.....Further digging reveals that Rodrigo was not at all happy about his music being used by Davis/Evans without his permission. And yet, the wind arrangement here does bear some resemblance to Evans so...who knows?
@@maxmerry8470 This has very little do with Aranjuez.
You're right. It is a different composition and not a rearrangement. However, there are a few faint echoes of the Aranjuez Adagio.