Bernaola: La celestina

Featuring

Carlos Chamarro
Lucía Gómez
Mikel Zabala
Nacho de Paz
Yolanda Vega
Irene Fraile

Musikene Orkestra Sinfonikoa
Carmelo Alonso Bernaola
Zuriñe Gerenabarrena

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Recording & Production

This album features the world premiere recording of the complete ballet La Celestina, with actors' voices integrated as intended by the composer.

Interpretation

For Carmelo Bernaola's short triptych, the conductor Nacho de Paz determined the tempi by considering the soprano's prosody and the emotional character of the recited text, as the score lacked metronomic indications.

Performer Biography

Nacho de Paz, the conductor, is renowned for his specialization in 20th and 21st-century music, having conducted nearly 400 world premieres and recorded for various international television channels.

Composer Biography

Carmelo Bernaola was a prolific audiovisual composer, creating over a hundred soundtracks, and also contributed to liturgical reform promoted by the Second Vatican Council.

Composer Biography

Carmelo Bernaola, born in Otxandio, Vizcaya in 1929, is considered one of the most representative composers of the 'Generation of 51' in Spain.

Composition History

Carmelo Bernaola's orchestral work, Espacios variados, was a pioneering attempt to combine intervallic serialism with mobile or aleatoric forms.

Composer Biography

Carmelo Bernaola won the prestigious Roma Prize, which allowed him to live in Italy for two years (1960-1962) and engage with the European avant-garde.