Aranjuez

Montenegrin superstar guitarist Miloš Karadaglić’s recording of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez stands as one of the great interpretations of this cornerstone of the guitar repertoire. But his other choices for this album—lesser-known music by Rodrigo and his great older contemporary Manuel de Falla—show him to be not just a fine musician, but also something of a musical explorer. Falla’s tender tribute to Debussy (“Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy”), written shortly after the Frenchman’s death, contrasts with a flash of colour from his famous ballet El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat). To finish, Miloš shines a light on Rodrigo’s other great guitar concerto—the lush, neoclassical Fantasía para un Gentilhombre (Fantasia for a Gentleman), written in 1954 for the legendary Andrés Segovia.