Friday, February 2, 2024 7:30PM - Sunday, February 4, 2024 2:00PM

Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez

CLASSICS SERIES | MESA ARTS CENTER & SYMPHONY HALL
 
CONCERT REPERTOIRE
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain” *
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 

Ankush Kumar Bahl, conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas, guitar
 
Many composers’ music reflects their ancestral homelands. Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, the most popular concerto ever composed for guitar and orchestra, is inspired by the Royal Gardens at Aranjuez in Spain and features spellbinding Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas as soloist. Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 begins with the breadth and majesty of a Nordic landscape and ends with one of the most dramatic finales in classical music. Guest conductor Ankush Bahl leads The Phoenix Symphony in Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness’ popular and meditative Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain.”

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