{"id":10469,"date":"2018-07-15T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T23:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=10469"},"modified":"2018-07-15T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T23:44:41","slug":"romero-sunday-2-watch-angel-romero-play-canarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/romero-sunday-2-watch-angel-romero-play-canarios\/","title":{"rendered":"Romero Sunday #2: Watch Angel Romero Play &#8220;Canarios&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Canarios<\/em>, written in 1674 by Spanish composer Gaspar Sanz (1640\u20131710), inspired by a folk dance popular in the Canary Islands, has long been a popular piece with solo guitarists, even though it&#8217;s best-known application is as the theme of the fourth movement of Joaqu\u00cdn Rodrigo&#8217;s 1954 guitar concerto <em>Fantas\u00cda para un gentilhombre<\/em>, written for Andr\u00e9s Segovia, who premiered it in 1958. While that concerto will never eclipse the popularity of Rodrigo&#8217;s <em>Concierto de Aranjuez<\/em>, in recent years it has been performed more and more, as guitarists and orchestras look for pieces that will appeal to the general classical audience. Certainly it has strong commercial appeal!<\/p>\n<p>This vintage performance of <em>Canarios<\/em> performed by Angel Romero does not have the measured, courtly air that most versions do; rather its pace is brisk and nearly breathless, trading nuance for excitement and personality\u2014both trademarks of Romero&#8217;s playing. \u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canarios, written in 1674 by Spanish composer Gaspar Sanz (1640\u20131710), inspired by a folk dance popular in the Canary Islands, has long been a popular piece with solo guitarists, even though it&#8217;s best-known application is as the theme of the fourth movement of Joaqu\u00cdn Rodrigo&#8217;s 1954 guitar concerto Fantas\u00cda para un gentilhombre, written for Andr\u00e9s Segovia, who premiered it in 1958. While that concerto will never eclipse the popularity of Rodrigo&#8217;s Concierto de Aranjuez, in recent years it has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/angel-romero-1.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}