Rafael Romero 'El Gallina', featured on the track 'Lamento', was a prominent flamenco singer known for representing traditional flamenco art.
Composer Biography
Villa-Rojo is a highly respected clarinettist and founded the instrumental ensemble LIM (Musical Performance Laboratory), which he has led for 35 years.
Performer Biography
Asier Polo, the cellist on this album, is considered the most outstanding Spanish cellist of his generation and plays a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona 1689).
Composer's Artistic Vision
Villa-Rojo consistently composes with the immediate transformation into sound in mind, aiming to create something new while respecting and learning from the past.
Composer Biography
Jesús Villa-Rojo, born in 1940, is considered a leading figure in the Spanish avant-garde music scene of the last century, known for achieving significant creative freedom.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Villa-Rojo's compositional approach involves transforming material into intelligible and comprehensible sound structures, often revisiting fundamental concepts like music and expressivity, or music and mathematics.
Composer Biography
Jesús Villa-Rojo is a two-time winner of Spain's National Music Prize and has received numerous international accolades.
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Dedicated To
Myaskovsky: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9
Korngold: Another Dawn / Escape Me Never
Woyrsch: Symphony No. 3 & 3 Böcklin-Phantasien
Glass, L.: Symphony No. 3, "Wood Symphony" / Symphony No. 6, "Birth of the Scyldings"
