Jesús Bal y Gay's exile to Mexico in 1938 was voluntary, as his personal ethics prevented him from coexisting with the regime in Spain.
Performer Biography
José Luis Temes, the conductor, has premiered over 320 works, including four operas and several ballets, and has recorded more than 90 discs, mostly of Spanish music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Jesús Bal y Gay consciously decided to stop composing after 1951, resulting in a brief but intense catalogue of fewer than twenty works.
Composer Biography
Jesús Bal y Gay, a Galician composer, was a progressive thinker, investigator, musicologist, and folklorist who was exiled from Spain but later returned without rancor.
Composition History
The re-instrumentation of Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto by Jesús Bal y Gay was suggested by his friend Carlos Chávez, who wanted to make the Brandenburg Concertos more accessible to conventional orchestras.
Composer's Artistic Vision
All of Jesús Bal y Gay's orchestral works were composed within a single decade, from 1941 to 1951, during his exile in Mexico.
Composition History
Jesús Bal y Gay's Concerto grosso (1951) was a homage to J. S. Bach, begun in 1950 to commemorate the bicentenary of Bach's death.
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