Fandango Variado, Op.16
Description
Dionisio Aguado's Variations on the Fandango are among the most exciting works for the guitar from the nineteenth century. In them, plainly to be heard, the rhythms and harmonies of Spanish popular music, closely related to what we today call flamenco, sweep dramatically and compellingly along. In the fandango, wrote Casanova, "is found the expression of love from its beginning to its end, from the sigh of desire to the ecstasy of possession". This piece can hold any concert audience spellbound.