Niklas Johansen - Platero y yo: An Andalusian Elegy (2025)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Booklet) 381 MB | Cover | 01:49:03 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 261 MB
Classical | Label: OUR Recordings
Johansen is not the first guitarist to record this entire collection, but he might be the best to do so.
Some people, myself included, have better relationships with animal friends than they do with other human beings. Even so, friendships between men and animals have their own complications, in part because of the element of control. For example, I don't let my cats run free outside, and they pretty much eat what I expect them to eat when I expect them to eat it. I can't do that with any of my human friends! Platero y Yo (“Platero and I”) is Juan Ramón Jiménez's collection (an Andalusian elegy), published in 1914, of 138 prose poems about the relationship between a first-person poet, in a Spanish village that has seen better days, and a small silver-colored donkey named Platero.