Manuel Balboa: Obra completa para conjunto instrumental

Featuring

José Luis Temes
Grupo Instrumental Siglo XX
Manuel Balboa

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Composer Biography

Manuel Balboa, a composer from La Coruña, died in 2004 at the age of 45, and this album celebrates what would have been his fiftieth birthday in 2008.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Manuel Balboa's concert music is characterized by its brevity, with no score lasting more than eight minutes, and a pervasive sadness or nostalgia for a lost world of happiness.

Recording & Production

All the scores for this recording were critically revised by José Luis Temes from the manuscripts and digitized to create computer-generated materials.

Composer Biography

Manuel Balboa was largely self-taught in music, despite some initial training, as his character did not fit well with standard teaching.

Performer Biography

The Grupo Instrumental Siglo XX (G.I.S. XX) was founded in 1996 to perform 20th-century chamber music, and its members are solo instrumentalists from the Galicia Symphony Orchestra.

Performer Biography

José Luis Temes, the conductor, has premiered almost 300 works, including four operas and several ballets, and has released over seventy albums, mostly of contemporary Spanish music.