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Don Quixote In Spanish Music

10/24/2007, 9 Tracks, 1:06:10

Featuring

  • José Ramón Encinar
  • Jose Antonio Lopez
  • Lilian Moriani
  • Victoria Marchante
  • Celia Alcedo
  • María José Suárez
  • Victor Arriola
  • Fernando Cobo
  • Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid
  • Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid
  • Joaquín Rodrigo
  • Jose Garcia Roman
  • Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
  • Jorge Fernandez Guerra
  • Gerardo Gombau

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Composer's Artistic Vision

José García Román's La resurrección de Don Quijote uses the Quixote theme metaphorically to express a desire for heroes whose 'madness' might offer hope to a disillusioned society.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Joaquín Rodrigo's symphonic poem Ausencias de Dulcinea is unusually scored for bass, four sopranos, and orchestra, with constant changes in character and tempo.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri's Don Quijote was part of a new stage work premiered in 1861 to commemorate the anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' death.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album includes the first recording of Francisco Asenjo Barbieri's music for Don Quijote, and world premiere recordings of works by José García Román and Jorge Fernández Guerra.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

José Ramón Encinar, the principal conductor for this album, was an assistant to Franco Donatoni at the Academia Chigiana from 1976 to 1982.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

All five works on this album are based on Cervantes' masterpiece, Don Quixote, and were written by Spanish composers.

Source: Booklet

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