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    Posted: June 16 2005 at 15:28
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone knows of an artist that does the beautiful song Spain completely on classical guitar. My father really loves this song and has been trying to find it for years, and now I turn to you all for some well endowed wisdom on who could do justice to this piece of music.

Thanks in advance!
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Points: 3323 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2005 at 23:10
Paco DeLucia?

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Chick Corea and Return to forever put out a song called Spain on the classic "Light as a feather" album. However the song is a group piece, not classical guitar driven. Hope that helps...

 
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Points: 521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 14:25
Can you please give us some more details about that "Spain" song? I mean, the original version...
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Points: 164 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 14:49
Heh, thanks gleam. I already have Chick Corea and Return to Forever's version, while I find it highly enjoyable (along with the rest of the album) my father is really gung-ho on finding a complete guitar driven version.

I really don't know any more details on the song, as I have never really heard any version of it on guitar or who the original performer/composer was? Sorry...thats the best I can do.
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Ok, let's see if we can clarify this: the "Spain" theme by Chick Corea consist on jazz variations on some typical Spanish tunes, and mainly on the "Concierto de Aranjuez" by Joaquín Rodrigo. This is a classical (well, 20th Century) piece for guitar and orchestra, and you can find plenty of recordings of this work out there. Among them you can find one in which the guitar part is played by the flamenco guitar hero Paco de Lucía but I don't recomend it: go for any of the versions with a true classical guitar player (Pepe Romero and the English Chamber Orchestra for example).
It's funny how this piece of music is always enjoyed much more outside Spain than here (something like Sherry and Rioja wines): we usually find it too cheesy, and certainly a shame for a 20th Century classical composer...

Oh, by the way, Miles Davis did also a version of this concert in the album "Sketches of Spain"

 
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Points: 164 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 20:12
Thanks alot nacho! A great explanation and a great help and I appreciate it immensely. I will be checking out these shortly and hopefully can find some decent samples of which to judge them. Once again, a big thanks!
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Points: 20240 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2005 at 03:31
Miles Davis 's Sketches Of Spain album is astounding espoecially with his version of Aranjuez.
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Points: 299 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2005 at 20:35

Check out The Modern Jazz Quartet's " The last concert". Their version of the Conciert de Aranjuez is excellent.

 
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