This album is a monographic disc of Santiago Lanchares's music, released to coincide with his sixtieth birthday.
David Apellániz, the cellist, is intensely active in recently-created music and has over fifteen CD recordings as a soloist.
Magdalena Llamas, the mezzo-soprano, has won several awards including the Visconti Competition and the Rossini Competition.
Lanchares' compositional output is notably condensed, with scarcely forty works, reflecting his view of composition as a reflective exercise.
Santiago Lanchares, the composer, was born in 1952 in Piña de Campos, a small town in Palencia, Spain.
Lanchares studied at the Madrid Conservatory with Carmelo Bernaola and Luis de Pablo, and later with Cristóbal Halffter and Olivier Messiaen.
José Luis Temes, the conductor, has premiered over 330 works and recorded nearly 100 discs, mostly of Spanish music, in his 35-year career.
