Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At 29, classical guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre has already earned an international reputation for his ability to make the nylon strings of his instrument sing ...

From the sultry Spanish sounds of the Concierto de Aranjuez to modern adaptations of 17th-century lute music, some of the greatest classical music sounds absolutely stunning on guitar. For a work as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The vast royal gardens at Aranjuez, an oasis 30 miles south of Madrid, are wind-blown and a little bleak in ...

The passion of Flamenco blends with the elegance of courtly dances in the most popular guitar concerto of all time: Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. The work was composed in Paris in 1939 during a ...

Written by Joaquin Rodrigo in 1939, the Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar classic. He wrote it amid the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, and in circumstances of poverty and personal tragedy. How has it ...

Miloš' first full concerto recording is an energising experience. Album of the Weekend, 22-23 February 2014. For his third album, international chart-topping classical guitarist Miloš Karadaglić takes ...

Written by Joaquin Rodrigo in 1939, the Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar classic. It was written amid the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, and in circumstances of poverty and personal tragedy. Soul ...

Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' (1937) visually describes the carnage and morose nature of war, but what was the inspiration for Joaquin Rodrigo's most famous guitar concerto? It had been conjectured that ...