In Vielleicht, Luis de Pablo deliberately seeks an unstable timbre by distributing tonal music among exotic instruments, making it sound 'out-of-tune' to decompose the harmonics.
Composition History
Fiesta II is a second version of Fiesta without the string orchestra, created at the request of Les Percussions de Strasbourg, where the string parts were 'devoured' by the percussion.
Composition History
The original version of Fiesta, called Fiesta I, was commissioned by the String Orchestra from Rennes and Les Percussions de Strasbourg, and premiered in 1988.
Composition History
The works on this album were composed for the legendary French ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg, a world pioneer in the history of music for percussion instruments.
Composer Biography
Luis de Pablo, born in Bilbao in 1930, reached his eightieth birthday in 2010 with full creative lucidity, having written some of the most brilliant scores in Spanish and international music of the last half-century.
Compositional Technique
Luis de Pablo's work Vielleicht (Perhaps) for percussion ensemble is based on Beethoven's piano Bagatelle in B flat major, Op. 119.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in March 2010 in Ávila, immediately after a concert by the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE) honoring Luis de Pablo, using the same works and performers.
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