Platero y Yo - An Andalusian Fantasy

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Label
OUR Recordings
Release Date
October 3, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    • PERFORMER
      Niklas Johansen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 03, 2025
    • UPC
      0636943693025
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8226930-31
    • LABEL
      OUR Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Guitar
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Platero

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    2. II. Angelus

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    3. III. Retorno (Return)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    4. IV. La Primavera (Spring)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    5. V. El pozo (The Well)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    6. VI. Gorriones (Sparrows)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    7. VII. Melancolia (Melancholy)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    8. VIII. Amistad (Friendship)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    9. IX. La luna (The Moon)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    10. X. Juegos del anochecer (Twilight Games)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    11. XI. Ronsard

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    12. XII. El loco (The Crazy-Man)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    13. XIII. La tísica (The Consumptive Girl)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    14. XIV. Nostalgia

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    15. XV. Mariposas blancas (White Butterflies)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    16. XVI. Idilio de abril (Apring Idyll)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    17. XVII. El canario vuela (The Canary's Flight)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    18. XVIII. La arrulladora (Lullaby)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    19. XIX. El canario se muere (The Canary Dies)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    20. XX. Idilio de noviembre (November Idyll)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    21. XXI. La muerte (Death)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    22. XXII. Convalecencia (Convalescence)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    23. XXIII. Golondrinas (Swallows)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    24. XXIV. La flor del camino (Wayside Flower)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    25. XXV. Domingo (Sunday)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    26. XXVI. Los gitanos (The Gypsies)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    27. XXVII. Carnaval (Carnival)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen

    28. XXVIII. Á platero en el cielo de moguer (To Platero in the Heaven of Moguer)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Niklas Johansen


Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's 36-year collaboration with the legendary guitarist Andres Segovia resulted in 35 works featuring the guitar, including three concertos, several large cycles and numerous shorter pieces. Castelnuovo-Tedesco first met Segovia at a festival in Venice in 1932 and composed a new work for the legendary guitarist almost every year afterwards. Among the towering masterpieces in guitar literature is Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Platero y Yo (Platero and I), a cycle of consisting of 28 settings, arranged into four groups of seven-movement suites with a total playing time of 1 hour and 49 minutes. Originally conceived as an accompaniment for a recitation of selections from the Nobel Prize-winning Catalan poet Juan Ramon Jimenez's collection of poetic sketches of the same name, the composer gave his permission for the work to be performed without spoken text, which is how it is performed here. You can read Jimenez's texts in English translation while listening to the music and enjoying the wonderful illustrations for each movement by the award-winning artist Halfdan Pisket, especially commissioned for this recording. In preparation for bringing this masterwork to life, internationally acclaimed, multi prize-winning Danish guitarist Niklas Johansen not only studies the Spanish language to appreciate Jimenez'sprose-poems in their native language, but travelled to Spain, not far from Jimenez's hometown of Moguer. The close relationship with the language and culture has lent Johansen's interpretations a personal resonance. This album was recorded in Fredensborg Palace Chapel by the Danish masters of sound, Preben Iwan and Mette Due who beautifully captured the exceptional acoustics. We wish to express our sincere thanks to His Majesty King Frederik X, who personally granted us permission to record in Fredensborg Palace Chapel.