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Digital Music Album Review: 'Great Performances: Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez/Fantasia para un gentilhombre'

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©2004, 2005 Sony Classical. ℗ 1981, 1984 Sony BMG Music Entertainment In the fall of 2005 , Sony Classical (a division of Sony BMG Music Entertainment) released a digital follow-up to  Great Performances: Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez/Fantasia para un gentilhombre, a 1980s-era compact disc featuring Australian classical guitarist John Williams (no relation to the American composer and conductor of the same name) and two orchestras (one British, one American) recorded years earlier for CBS Masterworks The digital reboot has the same title and featured soloist, but this time Mr. Williams performs the material with the Philharmonia Orchestra (Louis Frémaux conducting). Although it shares a title with an earlier CBS Masterworks album from the 1980s that featured Williams and two orchestras (the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Eugene Ormandy, and the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves) in performances of the famous 1939 Concierto de Aranjuez and 1954'