Clerch/Asensio/Hso - Arriaga, Rodrigo: Aranjuez

History and Nature fuse in Aranjuez to delight us with a walk through the gardens of Spanish music. The version offered by Joaqu�n Clerch amounts to a renewed reading of this much-heard work, shunning the picturesque, and excessive lyricism. Clerch rather seeks a balance between great technique, with precision in the sonority of the strumming (sometimes melodic, rhythmic or timbral), and crystalline plucking drawing counterpoints, motifs or rhythmic patterns as proposed in the score. Also, in Arriaga's Sympnhy for large Orchestra, Garc�a Asensio and the Hispanian Symphony Orchestra reveal the entire content of this outstanding work, attentive to the instrumental contrasts, the breadth of register and the counterpoint, but also revelling in the lyricism of Arriaga�s inspired melodies.