The first volume in a series of Rodolfo Halffter's orchestral works, this disc gives a rather spotty impression of his long career and inadvertently portrays him as an eclectic composer by scrambling his different periods. Early and late works are presented out of chronological order, so the spiky Paquiliztli (1983) for percussion hardly prepares ...
Naxos has assembled an intriguingly diverse selection of music inspired by Don Quixote. The range of styles represented here dictate that the CD will be of most interest to listeners with broadly eclectic tastes because the music ranges from typically Romantic music from the mid-nineteenth century to very challenging and uncompromising modernism. ...
Leonardo Balada composed No-Res (Nothing) for narrator, chorus, orchestra, and tape (1974) in memory of his mother; yet as an agnostic lacking a belief in survival after death, he designed this avant-garde, secular Requiem to express rage and sorrow over the loss of a finite life, rather than reflect hopeful expectations of immortality. Since ...
This little disc does not promise much: two student instrumental compositions by a Spanish composer who was mainly active in theatrical forms. In the event, it's never less than enjoyable, and it hints at various currents that were just starting to boil when they were composed in the mid-1870s. Ruperto Chapí, from the vicinity of Alicante in ...
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