Catalog I 2008-2014

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Catalog I 2008-2014

Catalog I 2008-2014
In association with
The BBVA Foundation expresses BBVA’s commitment to the improvement
and welfare of the societies where it does business by promoting and supporting world-class scientific research and artistic creation and their transmission to society. Under its Arts and Humanities program, the Foundation
devotes particular attention to classical music, focusing on the composition
of the 20th and first decades of the 21st century. Its activities in this area
include:
undertakes extraordinary recordings of performances by renowned
artists, including two devoted to the pianist Joaquín Achúcarro, and of
emblematic works and composers; among them a homage to Tomás
Luis de Victoria (with the BBC), Ecos y sombras dedicated to Cristóbal
Halffter, the world premiere of the same author’s Lázaro opera, Ginastera’s Panambí (with Deutsche Grammophon) and Tchaikovsky’s
opera Eugene Onegin (with ABAO).
· Competitions and prizes, including the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of
Knowledge and Culture Award in the Music category, and the AEOSFundación BBVA Composition Prize in tandem with the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras (AEOS).
· Recurrent collaborations with orchestras and opera and classical music
institutions, including the Bilbao Friends of the Opera Association
(ABAO), the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and the Seville Royal
Symphony Orchestra (ROSS), the Madrid Region Orchestra and Choir
(ORCAM), the Madrid Symphony Orchestra (OSM), the Teatro Real in
Madrid, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
· Concert cycles of 20th and 21st century music, including
the Portraits cycle, performed by PluralEnsemble, in the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Soloists cycle in the BBVA Foundation
Madrid, and the Contemporary Music Concert Season in the BBVA
Foundation Bilbao.
· Academic training of excellence through a grant scheme for members
of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE), supplemented by a
new teaching program in partnership with the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir (OCNE), giving JONDE musicians the opportunity to
play at OCNE concerts, the funding of the Fundación BBVA-Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía Viola Chair and support for the same center’s contemporary music Sinfonietta.
· Young performers cycles held in the Foundation’s centers in Madrid
(Marqués de Salamanca Palace) and Bilbao (San Nicolás Building).
· Audio and video recording and dissemination of the music of our time,
signally the NEOS-Fundacion BBVA series and the Contemporary Composers of Spain and Latin American Collection, promoted by the BBVA
Foundation in partnership with music label VERSO. The Foundation also
· Commissions from Spanish and international composers through institutions like the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical, the ORCAM and
the Basque National Orchestra, as well as directly commissioned works.
· Lecture series and other activities deciphering the keys and significance
of musical creation for an interested public. Support for landmark publications in the music sphere such as Scherzo magazine.
Few cultural areas are as adept at music at balancing the upkeep of a rich
tradition – constantly revisited and refreshed – with innovation of the most
radical kind; two essential strands in the story of our present times. Hence
the focal role accorded to this art form in the work of the BBVA Foundation, whose endeavors have been distinguished with the 2010 Medal of
Honor of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN COMPOSERS
OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
This collection, launched by the BBVA Foundation in
association with the record label Verso, is designed to
revitalise the work of creators and performers from Spain
and Latin America, opening a door to aesthetic plurality
and establishing a channel for critical reflection on musical
creation on both sides of the Atlantic.
Created in 2001 by Pilar de la Vega and José Miguel Martínez, Verso is
undoubtedly one of the independent recording industry’s major contributions to this country’s culture. With a top-flight catalogue of more than a
hundred and fifty discs already, focused fundamentally on lesser-known
Spanish baroque, classical, romantic and post-romantic music, Verso also
clearly supports the most avant-garde musical creation of our time.
Meticulous and careful edition and the diversity of sources of interpretation,
backed by a long list of orchestral ensembles of the very highest level and
youthful artists of acknowledged national and international prestige make
the young, dynamic Madrid label a Spanish recording classic.
The collaboration between the BBVA Foundation and Verso has since 2008
fomented the project to record and publish a CD collection of New Music
by Spanish and Latin American Composers. This new initiative is designed
to revitalise the work of present-day musical creators and performers and to
nourish society’s renewed interest in an art form already part of the cultural
Cover image:
José Manuel López López
An excerpt of the score El arte de la siesta (2008)
Introductory texts:
Francisco de Paula Cañas Gálvez
English translation:
Gordon Burt
Design:
Pilar de la Vega
heritage, aiming to provide an open door to aesthetic plurality with space
for any musical and multidisciplinary proposals whose innovative character
constitutes a basic element of cultural diversity.
The first phase of the collection which was presented on 8 July 2008 comprises thirty-five CDs presenting the representatives of three generations. A
second phase incorporates new creators and performers. So far, the work of
Carlos Bermejo, José Luis Turina, Manuel Balboa, Eddie Mora, Antón García
Abril, Luis de Pablo, César Camarero, José Luis Greco, Eduardo MoralesCaso, Jesús Torres, Tomás Garrido, Alfredo Aracil, María de Alvear,
Alejandro Moreno, Fabián Panisello, Jacobo Durán-Loriga, Jorge Fernández
Guerra, José Río-Pareja, Ramón Barce, Eduardo Armenteros, Ramón
Lazkano, Tomás Marco, Gonzalo de Olavide, José Luis Turina, Gerardo
Gombau, José Manuel López López, Santiago Lanchares, Joan Guinjoan,
Miguel Trillo, Miguel Pons, Cristóbal Halffter, Juan J. Colomer and Gabriel
Erkoreka has been featured.
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SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN COMPOSERS OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
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Label: Verso
Genre: Classical Music;
Instrumental;
Chamber Music
Period: Contemporary
Release: 2008
1 CD
Playing Time: 00:56:42
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Label: Verso
Instrumental; Orchestral;
Chamber Music
Release: 2008
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Catalogue No: VRS 2059
Barcode: 8436009800594
CARLOS BERMEJO 1965
Mientras tanto
Works for piano, accordion and trio
Yukiko Sugawara (piano)
Esteban Algöra (accordion)
Trío Accanto: Marcus Weiss (saxophone
alto), Christian Dierstein (percussion), Yukiko Sugawara (piano)
The three works making up this compact disc, all of generous length, close to or more than twenty minutes, were composed very recently by
Carlos Bermejo and over quite a short period of time (2004-2007).
This music suggests a young composer of great talent, showing a serious and sure maturity clearly at the forefront, and yet also revealing
some of the European piano tradition beginning with Beethoven and leading directly to Chopin and Schumann. However, Bermejo is above
all a master of detail, of extreme subtlety at the service of musical creation and where the minimum, the microscopic, develops generally to
adorn the singular aesthetic and artistic qualities fully grasped in their refinement by Yukiko Sugawara, Esteban Algora and the members of
the Accanto Trio, and transformed for the listener into performances of great technical quality.
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800624
JOSÉ LUIS TURINA 1952
Retrato (Portrait)
Orquesta Filarmónica de Londres
Orquesta Filarmónica de Poznan
Orquesta Iuventus
Grupo de viento de la ORCAM
María Teresa Chenlo (harpsichord)
José Luis Temes (conductor)
Grandson of the great Joaquín Turina, one of the key figures of early twentieth century Spanish musical nationalism, José Luis Turina (Madrid,
1952) has, along with a variety of management tasks, pursued a brilliant musical career making him one of the most outstanding names of the
eclectic generation of composers born in this country during the nineteen-fifties. Portrait is, above all, a tribute, a sincere and well-deserved
homage to an exceptional composer who has been able, like very few, to combine tradition and modernity in perfectly contrasted yet at the
same time balanced measure. From Crucifixus, composed in 1979, his public debut, to L´Art d´être touché par le clavecin dating from 2000,
a work of vast virtuosity evoking the genius of François Couperin, or Octeto de agua, composed between 1994 and 2004, a commission from
the Canal de Isabel II Foundation, Turina has deployed a wide range of creative possibilities evidencing solid musical thinking and an absolute
mastery of orchestral masses and of solo instruments.
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Label: Verso
Orchestral
Period: 20th Century
Release: 2008
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800686
MANUEL BALBOA 1958-2004
The complete works for instrumental ensemble
Grupo Instrumental Siglo XX
The two features which best define the work of Manuel Balboa are his sad and nostalgic character, recalling a happy time lost forever, and the
brevity of his scores none of which, excepting his stage output, lasts more than eight minutes. This recording, containing all his concert music
for instrumental ensemble except those the composer himself withdrew from his catalogue, considering them too novel or simply experimental,
commemorates what would have been his fiftieth birthday: Balboa died in the city of his birth, La Coruña, in January 2004 aged just forty-five.
Jose Luis Temes, a personal friend of Balboa and very familiar with his artistic legacy, offers a splendid monograph, along with the Instrumental
Ensemble Siglo XX, which may well provide the starting point from which to make known this deeply emotional, intimate and reflective music.
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Label: Verso
Instrumental;
Chamber Music
Release: 2009
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800723
EDDIE MORA 1965
Chamber music
E. Solerti (violin), E. Mora (violin-viola),
O. Guandique (viola), C. Guandique
(violoncello), F. Zúñiga, E. Shátskaya (piano),
A. Gutiérrez (trombone), R. Rodríguez
(guitar), V. Fonseca, D. Solano (percussion)
Despite his youth, belied by an indisputable creative maturity, Eddie Mora (San José de Costa Rica, 1965) has gained a place among the
leading figures on the Latin American contemporary music scene. Trained at the Castella Conservatory and the University of Costa Rica’s
School of Musical Arts, he subsequently moved to Moscow, where he lived from 1983 to 1992 perfecting his technique as a violinist and composer, returning in 2003 to complete his studies with Yuri Vorontsov.
Mora’s work stands out for its enormous conceptual and artistic breadth, evidenced in such impressive orchestral and vocal works as Concierto
para marimba y orquesta (1996), Cantata (1998), based on poems by Federico García Lorca, or Tres fragmentos orquestales (2006). His chamber music output is similarly diverse in its conception, and experiments with novel instrumental combinations of great chromatic beauty, from
the expressive force of Fragmentos I para septeto to the more meditative passages of Silencio I-IV or the versatility of La niña y el viento, a
piece included here in its version for strings, synthesizer and piano, which was written for the Amighetti tribute premiered at Costa Rica’s National Theater in September 2008.
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Label: Verso
Chamber Music
Release: 2009
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800754
ANTÓN GARCÍA ABRIL 1933
Chamber music
Cuarteto Leonor: Delphine Caserta (violin),
Enrique Rivas (violin), Jaime Huertas
(viola) and Álvaro Huertas (violoncello)
Daniel del Pino (piano)
José Luis Estellés (clarinet)
With a catalogue of more than one hundred and fifty works taking in virtually all avant-garde musical genres and a comprehensive professional
and academic curriculum combining extensive teaching with prizes, awards and institutional recognition throughout his long artistic career,
Antón García Abril (Teruel, 1933) is one of the most outstanding and brilliant creative personalities of twentieth-century Spanish culture.
Trained in Valencia, Madrid, Siena and Rome under the most relevant avant-garde currents of the sixties and seventies García April has, from
the beginnings of his career as a composer, sought his own, individual language based in the value of communication and featuring shafts of
a subtle cultural influence from the humanist thinking of the Spanish and Italian Renaissance, illustrated in the three chamber works recorded
on this compact disc. These recent scores point to the maturity of a refined and inspired composer fully familiar with the instruments he uses
and, like the great Renaissance musicians, master of the complex play of counterpoint and harmony.
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Label: Verso
Vocal; Chamber Music
Release: 2009
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800785
LUIS DE PABLO 1930
Piano trios
Trío Arbós: Juan Carlos Garvayo (piano),
Miguel Borrego (violin) and José Miguel
Gòmez (violoncello)
Alda Caiello (soprano)
The living symbol of a whole generation of composers, Luis de Pablo (Bilbao, 1930) has played a vital role in the development and dissemination
of contemporary music in Spain. After a musical education in part self-taught under the guidance of tutors like Maurice Ohana and Max
Deutsch, he completed his law degree in 1952 then immediately submerged himself in an intense round of intellectual and musical activity as
translator, lecturer and teacher. A few years later he was among the founders of Grupo Nueva Música (1957), the “Tiempo y Música” cycle
(1958) and the legendary “Alea” (1965), Spain’s first electronic music laboratory, responsible for bringing composers like Webern, Kagel,
Varèse, Ives, Stravinsky, Messiaen and Boulez or Spaniards Tamayo, Marco and Polonio, to the attention of the Madrid public. Luís de Pablo’s
catalogue embraces a rich variety of genres, forms and styles, with chamber music perhaps the most amply represented. The piano trios featured on this record, as performed by Trio Arbós, make an excellent showcase of his chamber music output over the last two decades; from
the tribute, Federico Mompou “In Memoriam”, a work of exquisite formal beauty written on the composer’s death in 1987, to Segundo Trío
(2006), a commission for the Arbós ensemble from Fundación El Monte, by way of the recent Trío de Doses (2008) based on texts by the Salamanca poet José Miguel Ullán.
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800815
CÉSAR CAMARERO 1962
Chamber works and music for dance
Plural Ensemble Soloists
Academia de Música Contemporánea
de la Joven Orquesta Nacional de España
Fabián Panisello (conductor)
Influenced by the creative stamp of Francisco Guerrero and the cosmopolitan viewpoint of his years of apprenticeship in New York, the work
of César Camarero (Madrid, 1962) is magnificent testimony to what might be called “pure music” in its broadest and strictest artistic sense.
Indescribable, hard to classify into a particular aesthetic or current, the catalogue of works of this young composer already illustrates a wideranging, intense career, marked out by national and international prizes evidencing acknowledgement of one of the most representative musical
legacies of the last two decades in Spain.
All five works on this disc were written between 2004 and 2008. Two are solo scores (Inmersión and Música para inducir al sueño), two are
trios (Pulsión and Nostalgia de un paisaje futuro), and the large work closing the programme, Instrucciones para dejarse caer al otro lado del
vacío (dedicated to Jorge Fernández Guerra and José Luis Turina) is an exceptional dance work borne of the simultaneous collaboration between the composer and the dancer Chevi Muraday, whose premiere at the Alicante Music Festival in September 2006 constituted an extraordinary success in the career of the musician from Madrid.
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Barcode: 8436009800853
KAGEL-ERKOREKA-LUC-LAZKANO
...Entre cantábile y sonábile...
(...Between singable and soundable...)
Works by Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008), Gabriel Erkoreka
(1969), María Eugenia Luc (1958) and Ramón Lazkano
(1968)
Cello Octet Amsterdam
Elena Gragera (mezzo-soprano)
Bas Wiegers (conductor)
Label: Verso
Ballet; Chamber Music
Release: 2009
1 CD + 1 Gift DVD
Label: Verso
Vocal;
Chamber Music
Period: Contemprary
Release: 2009
1 CD
Poetry and music, a difficult combination of profoundly human essences which, throughout history, has generated a vast variety of artistic
forms of the deepest inspiration, from Medieval and Renaissance Christian liturgical chant through opera to current, more or less iconoclastic
cultivated and popular tendencies. The content of the programme making up this disc precisely focuses on the most recent musical creation
for voice and instrumental accompaniment, under the great guidance of the recently deceased Mauricio Kagel and the mark of three young
composers: Gabriel Erkoreka, María Eugenia Luc and Ramón Lazkano, all born between 1958 and 1969 and in one way or another linked humanly and artistically to the Basque Country. With the voice of the mezzo Elena Gragera as protagonist, and the instrumental accompaniment
of the Amsterdam Cello Octet, this compact disc is a sincere homage to the most emotive sung word, splendid testimony of “poetic music”.
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Release: 2009
1 CD
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Barcode: 8436009800860
JOSÉ LUIS GRECO 1953
Jardines de la noche
Music for mezzo-soprano and string quartet
Mondriaan Quartet: Jan Erik van Regteren
Altena (violin), Edwin Blankenstijn (violin),
Annette Bergman (viola) and Eduard van
Regteren Altena (violoncello)
Elena Gragera (mezzo-soprano)
Magddalena Llamas (mezzo-soprano)
José Luis Greco (New York 1953) is one of the notable composers in the current panorama of serious music in this country. The son of Spanish
dancers of Italian origin living in the United States, Greco has since his earliest years lived in a cosmopolitan and avant-garde artistic environment which was to prove decisive in his subsequent creative development. Jazz and rock musician, dancer and actor during his young years,
at the end of the eighties José Luis Greco won his first professional successes as composer and conductor with the Cloud Chamber, a Netherlands dance company based in Amsterdam and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Culture. It was in fact in Amsterdam where, in 1991, he
wrote Trouble, a masterly string quartet clearly influenced by Schnittke and composed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the foundation
of the interpreters of this music: the Mondriaan Quartet. The two works completing the programme, Mudas (2001) and Celosías (2008), both
for string quartet and mezzosoprano, are rooted most deeply and profoundly in Spanish soil in texts by Lorca, Machado and Bécquer.
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Label: Verso
Instrumental;
Chamber Music
Release: 2009
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800877
EDUARDO MORALES-CASO 1969
Las sombras divinas
B3: Brouwer Trio (piano trio) Iliana Matos
and Adam Levin (guitar), Lorenzo Iosco
(bass clarinet), Duncan Gifford and
Eduardo Morales-Caso (piano), Claudia
Yepes (soprano), Davide Bandieri (piccolo
clarinet)
One of the features which may best define the career of the Cuban-Spanish composer Eduardo Morales-Caso is his creative freedom, a cosmopolitan and heterogeneous liberty always open to internal and external influences of the most varied sort and cultural and human origins.
Winner of prestigious musical awards, notably the First “José Asunción Flores” International Symphonic Music Composition Competition,
Morales-Caso has, throughout his already long career, stood out as a significant master in the chamber repertoire where he has produced
many of his most brilliant scores. Some of these works form part of the programme on this compact disc; written between 2000 and 2009,
they all stand out for their maturity, especially evident in solo instrumental passages, and an intimate and evocative formal beauty whose style
is very akin to the Romantic language of Chopin and Debussy and from which some features of the grandeur of the most emotional and metaphysical Liszt are not too remote.
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Label: Verso
Spoken C.; Chamber
Music
Release: 2010
1 CD
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Label: Verso
Orchestral
Release: 2010
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800907
JESÚS TORRES 1965
Cuentos de Andersen
Iñaki Alberdi (accordion)
Pedro María Sánchez (narrator)
Trío Arbos: Juan Carlos Garvayo (piano),
Gómez (violoncello)
Ensemble Residencias
Although he comes from Andalusian stock and was born in Aragon, Jesús Torres (Zaragoza, 1965) completed his compostion studies at the
Conservatorio Superior de Música of Madrid under the tutelage of José Torres and Adelino Barrio. He studied composition with the late Francisco Guerrero. With a catalogue that at present includes nearly eighty works, Torres has dedicated a good deal of effort to the setting of
texts, especially those of Vicente Aleixandre, San Juan de la Cruz and Rubén Darío, with whose poetry he feels an especially close bond. The
two works included on this recording, Double (2004), premiered in Dublin the 3rd of April 2005 and Cuentos de Andersen, premiered the 7th
of May 2006 in the Fernando de Rojas Hall of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, are a result of his constant creative and intellectual restlessness in dealing with sung texts as a means of transmitting emotions and pure sentiments. Here he relies on an apparently simple instrumental combination made up of violin, cello, flute, clarinet and piano, to which he adds an accordion. With the help of such renowned
interpreters as Iñaki Alberdi, Torres has brought this last instrument out of its traditional popular realm into the fathomless world of high artistic
culture.
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800921
TOMÁS GARRIDO 1955
Caminus...
Camerata del Prado
David Martínez (violin)
Julián Elvira (flute)
Tomás Garrido (conductor)
Born in the region of La Rioja, Tomás Garrido, who has a solid cosmopolitan education, is one of the most iconoclastic creators on the Spanish
artistic scene today. As a youngster, his first musical experiences were in the realm of pop-rock. At 17 he discovered Classical music and thus
began his exceptional professional activity. This led him to study in depth many different instruments within diverse settings, develop an
intense musicological interest and, above all, forge a solid trajectory as composer – or better said, as Musician. For Garrido this term defines
the essence of his extensive creative career. The works on this CD provide an ample perspective, necessarily limited, of Garrido’s oeuvre,
allowing us to also glimpse his trajectory and subsequent development as a Musician. The first of these works, Caminus di palavras, was
written between 1991 and 1992 and is dedicated to his brother Pedro. In this work of indubitable quality the maestro impeccably translates
distant memories and remembrances into sounds of a marked poetic inspiration. Also conceived for orchestra are the Violin Concerto (19931994), a commission from the Caja Madrid Foundation, Última diferencia (1999), a magnificent work written “nello stile antico” for flute and
strings and dedicated to the great Witold Lutoslawski, and Cartas ínfimas (2005), one of his more recent works whose title plays, somewhat
amusingly perhaps, with that of Janáček’s 2nd String Quartet Intimate Letters
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Label: Verso
Chamber Music
Release: 2010
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800952
ALFREDO ARACIL 1954
The string quartets
Cuarteto Bretón:
Anne Marie North (violin)
Antonio Cárdenas (violin)
Iván Martín (viola)
John Stokes (violoncello)
Alfredo Aracil (Madrid, 1954) is one of the principal creators of the Spanish contemporary music panorama. Having studied with such masters
as Marco, Bernaola, Halffter, Stockhausen and Kagel, the composer from Madrid has effectively combined his impressive creative facet with
teaching and artistic planning for many prestigious national and international cultural institutions.
Chamber music undeniable occupies an important place in Aracil’s oeuvre. The four string quartets, which are here stunningly interpreted by
the members of the Bretón Quartet, evidence an elegance and extraordinary subtlety in the approach to the complex polyphonic fabric of the
four instruments. The classical esthetic of the string quartet is combined, mixed, fused and alternates with a solid, particularly innovative and
avant-garde artistic language. The ample chronological frame of these works, written between 1975 and 2010, also allows us to observe the
interesting process of maturation and evolution Aracil has experienced in the nearly four decades of his impeccable artistic trajectory.
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Label: Verso
Chamber Music
Release: 2010
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801010
MARÍA DE ALVEAR 1960
Equilibrio
Atelier Gombau
Carlos Cuesta (conductor)
Juan Carlos Garvayo (piano)
Isabel Pérez Requeijo (piano)
As indicated by Jorge Fernández Guerra in the interesting notes accompanying this CD, if it were necessary to summarise in one word the
long professional and creative trajectory of María de Alvear (Madrid, 1960) that word would be energy; a vital, transcendental, vigorous, interdisciplinary, sometimes taboo and always original energy, inevitably translated into a set of contrasting emotions which, in Equilibrio, the work
which is the protagonist in this monographic recording, takes on the substance of a particularly powerful artistic force.
Equilibrio (Balance) composed in 2010, was originally conceived as part of a spectacle in which the work was synchronised with a video by
the British filmmaker Isacc Julien, developing an intense dialogue in which, however, the score succeeds in maintaining its musical autonomy
even if emotionally linked to the personality of the soloists who premiered and have recorded it here, above all Isabel Pérez Requeijo and Juan
Carlos Garvayo, both pianists and married, this last factor being of singular importance for María de Alvear who was inspired by the relation
of these musicians to compose this enigmatic and splendid work.
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Label: Verso
Chamber Music
Release: 2011
1 CD
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801102
ALEJANDRO MORENO 1962
Acrílico y óleo (Acrilic and oil)
Cuarteto Areteia: Alfredo García (violin),
Pedro Garbajosa (clarinet), Víctor Gil (violoncello) and Elena Aguado (piano)
Raúl Jiménez (accordion)
A declared admirer of chamber music, Alejandro Moreno (Alicante, 1962) is one of today’s Spanish musicians with the greatest creative projection. Trained as an architect, a teacher by profession and composer by vocation Moreno has, from his first steps along his artistic path,
pursued a trajectory of extraordinary musical quality clearly confirmed by the six works making up this CD. All composed between 1998 and
2008, the selection offered by Verso provides a complete panorama of the creative evolution of the composer from Alicante until the present
time. Perhaps Acrílico y óleo sobre papel Nos. 3 and 4, dating respectively from 1998 and 1999, part of a series, best express the essence of
Moreno’s work, still in a process of open intellectual growth. The performances by the Areteia Quartet, excellent throughout the recording and
sublime in some passages of Tres Piezas, make this disc one of the most notable in the Madrid label’s catalogue.
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Label: Verso
Chamber Music
Release: 2011
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801119
DIPOLO
Works for cello and piano by Spanish
and Latin American composers
David Apellániz (violoncello)
Alberto Rosado (piano)
With the expressive title of Dipolo, the Verso label and the BBVA Foundation offer a revealing programme on this compact disc focused on
the cello and piano works of a group of young Spanish and Latin American composers including such outstanding names from today’s musical
panorama as Fabián Panisello, Ramón Lazkano, Ramón Humet or Jesús Torres. The chronology of these eight works and their artists adheres
in general terms to the two last decades, providing listeners with an interesting overview of aesthetics and styles developed during these
years on both sides of the Atlantic. With meticulous performances by cellist David Apellániz, and Alberto Rosado at the piano, and notes on
their works by the composers themselves, this recording is an unquestioned reference in the contemporary repertoire.
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Label: Verso
Vocal;
Chamber Music
Release: 2011
1 CD
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Label: Verso
Chamber Music
Release: 2011
1 CD
CATALOG NO. / EAN
TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801126
FABIÁN PANISELLO 1963
Libro del frío
Ensemble Meitar
Allison Bell (soprano)
Libro del frío (Book of cold), the central work and main line of argument of this monograph devoted to the most recent output of the Argentinean
composer and conductor Fabián Panisello, is unquestionably an exceptional composition. Written this very year, 2011, based on texts from
the book of the same name by Antonio Gamoneda, its very structure, in thirteen movements, and the instrumentation (flute, clarinet, violin,
viola, cello and piano) supported by a soprano, directly reflect that “aerial character” Panisello himself affirms in speaking of his music, in addition to the clear imprint of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. Together with Libro de frío and by way of opening and culmination of this
disc, in turn Five metric pieces from 2000 and Three movements for String Quartet dated 2006, both of unsettling beauty, complete an immense
and monumental programme which, in the words of Stefano Russomanno, takes the form of “a reflection on the flow of time”.
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JACOBO DURÁN-LORIGA 1958
Ensemble music
Grupo Modus Novus
Ananda Sukarlan (piano)
Susana Cermeño (harp)
Santiago Serrate (conductor)
Jacobo Durán-Loriga (Madrid, 1958) is, above all and as correctly pointed out by José Luis García de Busto in the interesting notes accompanying this CD, a composer. A composer by vocation, of universal and cosmopolitan training acquired together with emblematic figures of
Spanish contemporary music such as Carmelo Bernaola and Luis de Pablo, and in academic centres of the international standing of the Cologne Musikhochschule. After some years dedicated to what is known as early music in the mythical group Atrium Musicae, Durán-Loriga has
taught music in various cultural institutions and has been involved in numerous research projects which included his informative musical
activity with Radio Clásica. The works on this disc bring together a significant part of the creative career of this Madrid composer over the last
thirty years, a selection inevitably reduced compared with his wide-ranging and heterogeneous catalogue, yet clearly representative of his
output for instrumental ensemble, where Durán-Loriga has written some of his finest scores, as outstanding as Kammerkoncert for chamber
orchestra and magnetic tape (1983) or the more recent La Isla Perdida, a splendid work composed in 1990 and revised in 1999, written in homage to Albéniz, and Antoianças (2004), a marvellous Nonet of medieval resonances composed to a commission from Xavier Güell to whom
it is dedicated, for Proyecto Guerrero.
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Chamber Music;
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1 CD
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Chamber Music
Release: 2012
3 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801195
JOSÉ RÍO-PAREJA 1973
La rivière sans socle
Trío Arbós: Juan Carlos Garbayo (piano),
Gómez (violoncello)
Carlos Gálvez (bass clarinet)
With a solid, cosmopolitan musical training in some of the world’s most outstanding centres (Stanford University, 2004-2007) and a catalogue
of works of extraordinary quality, José Río-Pareja, the young maestro from Barcelona, is currently one of the most substantial figures in the
panorama of Spanish composers. A musician of exceptional sensitivity and refined language in structural forms which are almost impossible
to materialise, Río-Pareja offers on this CD an overview of some of his most recent and brilliant pages. Of particular note for their scale and
quality are the work which gives the album its title, La rivière sans socle, a superb composition written in 2009 on commission from Fundació
Caixa Catalunya, and the very recent Carácter, from 2010, for bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano, and most especially Entheos, dated 2011
and dedicated to José Miguel Gómez, a vast poem exhaustively, intimately and almost mystically exploring the cello’s sonorous possibilities.
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801201
RAMÓN BARCE 1928-2008
The complete string quartets
Cuarteto Leonor:
Delphine Caserta (violin)
Enrique Rivas (violin)
Jaime Huertas (viola)
Álvaro Huertas (violoncello)
According to Andrés Ruiz Tarazona in the excellent notes accompanying this complete recording, “Ramón Barce’s quartets represent as a
whole one of his most noble and substantial offerings. In addition to the composer’s characteristic expressive clarity, the variety of resources
and subtle ironies he deploys, and the significance of his creative stages, in these works he appears to capture the harmony of his philosophical
world”. It would not be easy to give better form to the impression this extraordinary recording provides to a contemporary, cultivated listener.
Masterworks in a genre not much frequented in recent years by names of reference in the Spanish panorama, except of course for Conrado
del Campo and others like Tomás Marco, Cristóbal Halfter or García Abril who tackled it with greater or lesser frequency, Barce’s quartets are
the intellectual culmination of a creative project begun in 1958 with his First Quartet and crowned more than four decades later, in 1999, with
the Eleventh (Pieza de Cuarteto); a project, a process, a lifelong artistic and creative trajectory, takes shape and is confirmed as one of the
most notable contributions to twentieth century Spanish music, from the reminiscences of the Second Viennese School to the philosophicalmoral spirituality of the last quartet, composed as indicated above in 1999 as homage to the immense Viderunt Omnes composed at the end
of the twelfth century by master Perotín for Nôtre-Dame cathedral in Paris.
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Vocal; Chamber Music;
Instrumental
Release: 2012
1 CD
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Electroacustic
Release: 2012
1 CD + 1 Gift DVD +
1 Gift BluRay Disc 3D
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801218
JORGE FERNÁNDEZ GUERRA 1952
Los niños han gritado
Ensemble Residencias:
Trío Arbós and Neopercusión
Francesca Calero (soprano), Pedro Adarraga (bariton), Juana Guillén (flute),
Eduardo Raimundo (clarinet), Sergio Sáez
(viola)
The focus of this magnificent disc turns upon Los niños han gritado, an excellent score written by Jorge Fernández Guerra (Madrid, 1952) and
using the text of Vicente Aleixandre’s moving poem Oda a los niños de Madrid muertos por la metralla. Premiered in June 2011 at the Galileo
Cultural Centre in Madrid by the Ensemble Residencias, also heard in this Verso recording, the work is divided into ten fragments providing a
dramatic and emotive chant evoking times past in which the composer joins, blends and returns with understanding to previous materials
which, in his own words “had not fitted into other projects”. Together with this heartrending score, the disc includes three other recent works
by Fernández Guerra (Workin´ Problems, Oceánicas and Interstellar Sound) surely providing one of the most attractive and well-rounded programmes from the present national musical panorama.
CATALOG NO. / EAN
TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801225
EDUARDO ARMENTEROS 1956
Música para una colección de artes plásticas. Homenaje a Venancio Blanco (Music for a visual arts collection. Homage to Venancio Blanco)
Andrés Gomis (wind controller)
Fredy Valbuena (handling and audio mixing)
Eduardo Armenteros (sound production)
This magnificent album forms part of an interesting cultural project called Música para una colección de artes plásticas (Music for a visual arts
collection) conceived to unite sound spiritually and materially with the visual arts. The idea, comprehensively developed in the past with
splendid and very familiar examples, in this initiative attains particularly intense and attractive expression for the listener, bringing together the
figures and works of the composer Eduardo Armenteros (Madrid, 1956) and the sculptor Venancio Blanco (Matilla de los Caños, Salamanca,
1923). Both maestros, with notable artistic careers, here combine their material and conceptual visions of art in this new launch by Verso
which also includes the recording of the work which gives the project its title, a DVD of this piece, also in 3D Blu-ray format, and some
interesting Extras lasting more than half an hour with commentaries from the composer, Andrés Gomis, Manuel González, Alejandro González
and an interview with Blanco.
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Chamber Music
Release: 2012
1 CD
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801270
RAMON LAZKANO 1968
Laboratorio de tizas
Ensemble Recherche
Born in San Sebastián in 1968 and trained there with Francisco Escudero and later in Paris with Alain Bancquart and Gérard Grisey, Ramón
Lazkano had a meeting in 1988, brief but decisive in his career, with Helmut Lachenmann, not just pivotally influencing his creative trajectory
but which would mark his subsequent social and political concerns. Thus the concept then arose in his composition, consolidated in the nineties, of erosion, given splendid form in Laboratorio de tizas, a work of the sculptor Jorge Oteiza whom Lazkano rediscovered during a visit
to this maestro’s museum in Alzuza, Navarre. The sonorous and experimental facets of chalk, an extremely fragile, easily worn material, inspired
Lazkano to write a collection of pieces begun in 2001 and temporarily concluded in 2011. Sparked by Oteiza’s work, they structure the programme on this compact disc, four of these scores from the Wintersonnenwende cycle (Winter Solstice) interspersed on the odd-numbered
tracks. The remaining compositions, the two entitled Errodi, and Egan-2, were written between 2006 and 2009 at a critical moment in the
composer’s creative development.
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Vocal; Choral;
Orchestral
Release: 2012
3 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801287
GONZALO DE OLAVIDE 1934-2005
Orchestral and Symphonic-Vocal music
Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro de RTVE
Carole Sidney Louis (soprano)
Magdalena Llamas (mezzo-soprano)
José Manuel Montero (tenor)
Richard Rittelmann (baritone)
Arturo Tamayo (conductor)
The professional career of Gonzalo de Olavide (1934-2005) was linked from very early days to the most avant-garde musical circles in Europe.
Trained at Madrid Conservatory where he was a disciple of Victorio Echevarría, he soon transferred to Antwerp and Brussels (Belgium) to
further studies with Eugène Traey and André Souris and, later in Darmstadt and Cologne (Germany), he attended classes by Boulez, Stockhausen, Ligeti and Berio. With these considerable credentials and solid training, Olavide reached Geneva (Switzerland) in 1966 where he settled and was to write a substantial part of his extensive musical catalogue.
This recording brings together his complete orchestral and symphonic-vocal output, almost all works written during those years in Switzerland
along with some subsequent scores composed after returning to Spain in 1991. On three compact discs in a comprehensive survey running
from 1964 (Índices) to Concertante-Divides (2001), as a whole, these pieces show the listener Olavide’s creative development and his particular
imprint of combining avant-garde and Spanish elements, most notable in Cante in Memoriam García Lorca or Sinfonía Homenaje a Falla para
gran orquesta.
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Orchestral; Choral;
Chamber Music
Release: 2012
1 CD
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Label: Verso
Orchestral; Chamber
Music; Instrumental
Release: 2013
1 CD + 1 Gift DVD
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801294
TOMÁS MARCO 1942
Music for voices and instruments
Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid; José Ramón Encinar · Miguel Groba ·
Jordi Casas (conductor); Irvine Arditti (violin)
Rafael Gálvez · Raúl Benavent · Josep
Furió · Joan Castelló · Dionisio Villalba ·
Emma Brodi (percussion)
With this attractive title, Verso presents a selection of works written by the Madrid composer Tomás Marco over an extensive period of time
from 1970, the date of the composition of Mysteria, to 2000 and (S)otto Voci(e) which opens the programme. In between, a lofty Concierto
coral nº 1, dating from 1980, for violin and chorus, its originality seen in the combination of solo violin, an instrument given a prominent role
in Marco’s catalogue, with two choral groups which vocalise, and the 1971 Necronómicon, a commission from the General Commissioner for
Music for Les Percussions de Strasbourg and premiered that same year at the prestigious Granada International Music and Dance Festival.
The meticulous performances are entrusted to a select group of conductors, notably José Ramón Encinar and Miguel Groba, and the always
accredited work of the Madrid Community Orchestra and Chorus, in recent years a genuine “bulwark of the avant-garde and a standard for
presentation of the Spanish repertoire”.
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801300
JOSÉ MANUEL LÓPEZ LÓPEZ 1956
PASCAL AUGER 1955
La Grande Céleste
Miquel Bernat, percussion / Orquesta Nacional
de Francia · Delphine Bardin y Franz Michel,
pianos · Pascal Rophe, conductor / Alberto
Rosado, piano / Trío de Magia / PluralEnsemble · Esteban Algora, accordion · Robin Meier,
computer music · Fabián Panisello, conductor /
Trío Arbós / Sigma Project
José Manuel López López (Madrid, 1956) has pursued a long, productive composing career widely recognised by the most demanding national
and international critics and which has translated not just into an extensive catalogue but also an outstanding academic and professional trajectory regularly honoured with such prestigious awards as that of the International Society for Contemporary Music or the French Association
for Artistic Action, as well as being appointed Artistic Director of the National Auditorium in Madrid and in 2012 Lecturer in Composition at the
Conservatory of Gennevilliers in France.
This monograph gathers a substantial part of his most recent output, from Simog-Civitella, a magnificent composition dating from 2011 and
which opens the disc, to the closing Movimientos, from 1998. Also striking is the inclusion of DVD images by the video-maker Pascal Auger
with whom López López had already worked on Octandre in 2001, with sequences shot in Venice, Corsica, Paris, New York, Prague and at
the Civitella Ranieri Castle in Perugia during encounters the composer had with various artists in 2011 and 2012.
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Chamber Music
Release: 2013
1 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801317
JOSÉ LUIS TURINA 1952
Chamber Music
Plural Ensemble
Attractively entitled “Chamber Music”, the BBVA Foundation and Verso present a second CD dedicated to the work of José Luis Turina (1952),
a compilation on this splendid recording of a substantial part of the chamber output of the Madrid maestro between 1980, the date of Título
a determinar, a magnificent score premiered a year later by the Group Koan, then directed by José Ramón Encinar, and 1997 and Scherzo
para un hobbit, commissioned and presented by the Group Cosmos as part of the celebrations of the ensemble’s tenth anniversary. During
that period, the beautiful Variaciones sobre dos temas de Scarlatti for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello stand out strongly, along with
the impressive 1990 Cuarteto con piano, an astonishing exercise in mastery with the four voices. These performances, by the Plural Ensemble
under the baton of the Argentinean conductor Fabián Panisello, crown what is undoubtedly a superb homage to one of the most relevant
Spanish composers of recent years.
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Vocal; Choral;
Orchestral
Release: 2013
2 CD
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801331
GERARDO GOMBAU 1906-1971
Music for soloists, choir and orchestra
Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro de RTVE
Mariana Torodova (violin)
Carole Sidney Louis (soprano)
Arturo Tamayo (conductor)
Multi-faceted, an untiring teacher, speaker, Professor of Accompaniment at Madrid Conservatory, performer and composer, Gerardo Gombau
(Salamanca, 1906-Madrid, 1971) was above all an innovator, an essential figure in Spain’s musical and artistic renewal since the 1940s. Trained
in the city of his birth and then in Madrid where he would become Conrado del Campo’s star pupil, Gombau stood out from his very youngest
years because of his profound interest in recovering the historic repertoires (conducting the nine Beethoven symphonies in Salamanca in
1942) but also by permanently including the latest musical manifestations in his concert programmes. This eclectic essence of his personal
artistic tastes was also seen in his creative and musical thought, confirmed in the two compact discs comprising this double album, taking in
a representative part of the finest of his extensive musical catalogue. A comprehensive chronological guide beginning in 1944 with Amanecer,
opening the first of these discs, through to 1971, the date of his death, and Pascha Nostrum: Cantata Pascual, the work ending the second,
points to the evolution and the stylistic and creative development of the work of a composer of extraordinary vitality and dynamism.
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Chamber Music;
Instrumental
Release: 2013
1 CD
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Label: Verso
Chamber Music; Vocal;
Instrumental
Release: 2013
1 CD
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801355
JOAN GUINJOAN 1931
Portrait for a homage
Neopercusión:
Juanjo Guillem & Rafa Gálvez (percussion)
Piano Duo:
Isabel Puente & Antonio Narejos
Iñaki Alberdi (accordion)
With the evocative title Portrait of a homage, this CD seeks to render just recognition to a figure who is unquestionably one of contemporary
music’s relevant composers, Joan Guinjoan from Tarragona, whose extensive catalogue from his lifelong creative career takes in the twentieth
century’s most avant-garde styles, technical focuses and aesthetic positions. As usual with this type of recording, the programme spans a
long chronological and also artistic space over four decades, revealing the creative development of this “mestre”, from the Five Studies for
two pianos and percussion (1968), a wide-ranging, complex work which, according to the composer, represents to him “complete liberation
from any dogmatic prejudice”, to Sounds of the earth (2007) for accordion, the beloved instrument which was Guinjoan’s first musical contact
during his childhood, a score premiered in 2008 to critical and public success at the Third Contemporary Music Festival of Caixa Catalunya’s
Social Programme.
CATALOG NO. / EAN
TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801379
SANTIAGO LANCHARES 1952
Early works
neWMas Ensemble
José Manuel Montero (tenor)
David Apellániz (violoncello)
Iván García (clarinet)
On the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of Santiago Lanchares (Piña de Campos, 1952) the Madrid label Verso has dedicated a second
compact disc to him (the first, VRS 2028, featured his piano music) intended not just as a well-deserved tribute, but also a monographic of
the first creative phase of this composer, one of Spain’s most consolidated in the panorama of what is known as contemporary music. With
a wide-ranging, cosmopolitan musical training, which saw him in his early years performing as bass player in light music groups, but also as
a student at Madrid Conservatory under Carmelo Bernaola, Francisco Calés and fundamentally Luis de Pablo, Lanchares has in the last three
decades built up one of this country’s most notable artistic legacies. From Krono for instrumental ensemble (1986), the oldest work in this
monographic (although the first composition in his catalogue, Aulos, dates from 1985), to Constelación IV (1996), the most recent, Santiago
Lanchares reveals a wide range of intellectual-musical concerns, magnificently assembled and interpreted by the ever-precise baton of José
Luis Temes, no doubt one of the major advocates for this country’s vast musical heritage.
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801416
MIGUEL PONS 1975
Poems in Prose
Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de
Madrid · Juan Carlos Garvayo (piano)
Juan Antonio Sanabria (tenor) · Alfredo
García (baritone) · Miguel Espejo (clarinet) José Ramón Encinar (conductor)
Label: Verso
Concertos; Vocal;
Choral Secular
Release: 2013
1 CD
Notwithstanding his youth, Miguel Pons (Madrid, 1975) has amassed the very greatest artistic, musical and intellectual grounding. Trained at
the Royal Senior Conservatory of Music in Madrid, winning top grades, with a degree in Art History from the Autonomous University in the
Spanish capital, and with various Prizes of Honour in his extensive curriculum Pons has, in the last decade, followed a dazzling career ranging
from the organisation of major musical events (Madrid Contemporary Music Festival and the Film Music and Sound Workshops for the Autor
Foundation), to conducting and playing the most avant-garde repertoire and, naturally, composition, combining concert music with creation
and production for television and advertising.
This CD contains three imposing recent works from his already impressive musical catalogue. All composed between 2010 and 2013, perhaps
that giving the album its title, Poems in Prose, Cantata for chorus, soloists and orchestra on a text of Oscar Wilde, stands out, written in 2012,
his first large vocal work, magnificent in its conceptual terms. The compact disc’s excellence is crowned by the brilliance of the Madrid Community Orchestra and Chorus and, once more, the expert conducting of José Ramón Encinar.
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ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801447
MIGUEL TRILLO-FIGUEROA 1978
Sinistra Est Dextra
KMH Symfoniorkester · Shi Yeon Sung (conductor) · neWMas Ensemble · Magdalena
Llama (mezzo-soprano) · Henri Alexandre
Schnieper (conductor) · l’Arsenale Ensemble
Jeffrey Means (conductor) · Göteborg Wind
Orchestra · B. Tommy Andersson (conductor) ·
Sonanza · Jan Risberg (conductor)
Label: Verso
Orchestral; Instrumental
Release: 2013
1 CD
With an impressive and cosmopolitan musical training in his native Sweden, and consolidated artistic grounding of international relevance,
Miguel Trillo-Figueroa is unquestionably among the most significant composers of the last decade. Influenced from the very outset of his
career by the creative thinking of Iannis Xenakis, Trillo conceives music, in Tomás Marco’s words, “as a formal exercise with architectonic and
mathematic bases, yet also as a game in the noblest sense of the word”. Particularly interested in structures, the result of his father’s profession,
like Xenakis an architect, Trillo-Figueroa’s work is offered as a splendid example of absolute inspiration where the initial stylistic influences
and affinities are translated into an artistic language which is his own, pure, absolutely renewing and brilliant.
There are nine works in all on this compact disc, all recently composed and, as made clear in the introductory notes, distributed in an order according to more purely musical than chronological criteria. It would be difficult to highlight some above others, all of them equally bearing witness
to the composer’s artistic excellence, although perhaps Spectra, which opens the recording, composed in 2006, the only work in the programme
for large orchestra is, given its scale and careful writing, an excellent compendium of Miguel Trillo-Figueroa’s virtues and achievements.
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Chamber Music; Vocal
Release: 2013
1 CD + 1 DVD
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801485
CRISTÓBAL HALFFTER 1930
Concierto de cámara
Cuarteto de Leipzig
Cristina Pozas (viola)
Miguel Jiménez (violoncello)
Marina Pardo (mezzosoprano)
Concierto de cámara, the new Verso title in collaboration with the BBVA Foundation, is a memorable sonorous and visual recording for many
reasons. Given the quality of the work of the man honoured, this can be said to be a very well selected programme meticulously performed
by young musicians who have mastered and love the scores they play, all written during the years of creative maturity in the now extended
career of the Madrid maestro. Thanks to the very combination of sound and video recording of two crowning works from the chamber repertoire
of the end of the twentieth century: Endechas para una reina de España (1994) and the astonishing Cuarteto de cuerda nº 7 “Espacio de Silencio” (2007), the second-last in its category so far in Halffter’s catalogue, a monumental composition in seven intense movements inspired
by the universal and enduring verses Jorge Manrique dedicated to his father, Recuerde el alma dormida…, and which in the version of the
Leipzig Quartet, attains sublime heights. For all those reasons, and many more the listener will discover within, this new production is now an
unquestioned reference in the discography dedicated to Cristóbal Halffter.
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Label: Verso
Genre: Concertos
Release: 2014
1 CD
CATALOG NO. / EAN
TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801546
JUAN J. COLOMER 1966
Naturaleza Humana
Concerti for Brass instruments and Orchestra
Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
Luis González (trumpet)
Javier Bonet (horn)
Spanish Brass Luur Metalls
José Luis Estellés (conductor)
With this intriguing title (Human Nature), Verso takes us into the fascinating creative universe of Juan J. Colomer (Alcira, 1966). Prolific, and
nationally and internationally recognised as composer and orchestrator, the maestro from Valencia offers a programme of symphonic works
in this splendid recording in which the brass take an unmistakeable leading role. His extensive professional career and his clear command of
orchestral masses take brilliant from in scores as substantial as Viñetas Sinfónicas (2001) or La Devota Lasciva for brass quintet and orchestra
(2004), and of course the work which is the source of the title of this disc, Naturaleza Humana (2004), a profoundly inspired composition which
opens with a first movement – “Febril” – of astonishing beauty.
The Granada City Orchestra, under the baton of José Luis Estellés, with the support of Luis González and Javier Bonet playing French horn,
and the Spanish Brass Luur Metals, puts its name to what is unquestionably one of the year’s most outstanding discs.
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Genre: Chamber Music;
Instrumental
Release: 2014
1 CD
CATALOG NO. / EAN
TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009801553
GABRIEL ERKOREKA 1969
Kaiolan
ensemble recherche
This is the second Verso monograph of the compositor Gabriel Erkoreka from Bilbao. Following his successful Trío del agua (VRS 2150) and
his fundamental contribution to two other recordings for this label (VRS 2023 y VRS 2111), appearing together with other emerging composers
of the stature of Ramón Lazkano, Arturo Corrales or David del Puerto, the figure and the work of this young creator is consolidating permanently
in this country as one of the most exceptional contributors to what is known as contemporary music. The quality of his work and the extent
of his output are clearly illustrated in this new recording for the Madrid label, mixing and intermixing new scores such as Kaiolan (2010) or
Pyrite (2011) with those already written nearly a couple of decades ago (Krater, Saturno). These are sublime pages, of profound inspiration
where, then and now, the maestro was able to give form to and reflect with exemplary refinement the creative aspects which remain in place
throughout his wide-ranging catalogue, such as constant allusions to places in his Basque homeland, and an intense fascination for natural
phenomena.
RESEARCH AND HISTORICAL RETRIEVAL
OF THE SPANISH MUSICAL HERITAGE
The BBVA Foundation, in collaboration with the Verso
record label, aware of the immense cultural value awaiting
revelation from the little-known Spanish musical heritage,
has initiated this series of recordings designed to recover,
investigate, release and divulge a significant part of Spain’s
historic musical corpus, a promising project making it
possible to explore the work of exceptional composers who
must become new references in European music history.
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Orchestral
Period: Classical
Release: 2010
3 CD
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Label: Verso
Choral Sacred
Period: XIX Century
Release: 2013
2 CD
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009800990
RAMÓN GARAY 1761-1823
The 10 Symphonies
Orquesta de Córdoba
Like so many other eighteenth century Spanish composers, the figure and above all the work of Ramón Garay from Asturias (1761-1823) has
been absolutely neglected. Trained in music at the Royal Collegiate of Covadonga where his father was organist, and following a short time
in Madrid when he made contact with the most advanced musical circles of the court of the Countess-Duchess of Benavente Osuna, he
moved in 1785 to Jaén to take up the post of chapel master in the cathedral there, which he had won in controversial examinations. Garay
passed the rest of his life in Andalusia, given over entirely to teaching, directing the cathedral’s liturgical-musical services, and composition.
Notable in his comprehensive catalogue of works, naturally almost totally dominated by sacred music, is a corpus of 10 symphonies composed
between 1790 and 1817. These are works of great melodic beauty and clear classical lines, with no apparent liturgical end and structured in
the customary four movements (except for No. 3 which has three). Their discovery, edition by Pedro Jiménez Cavallé and their recording here
by José Luis Temes offers a major contribution to Spanish culture which will undoubtedly make it possible to uncover new, still hidden musical
treasures.
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ARTIST(S)
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MARIANO RODRÍGUEZ DE LEDESMA 1779-1847
Lamentaciones del Miércoles, Jueves y Viernes Santo
Ángeles Tey (soprano), Marta Infante
(contralto), Guillermo Orozco (tenor),
Isidro Anaya (bass), Matritum Cantat,
Javier Blanco (choir conductor),
Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid,
Tomás Garrido (conductor)
A central figure of early Spanish Romanticism, the biography and most particularly the work of Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma (1779-1847)
remain today little known to musicologists and listeners. With well-grounded training in his native city of Zaragoza, from García Fajer “el Espagnoletto”, and with an enviable cultural background, in 1806 he was established as tenor in the Royal Chapel of Carlos IV, beginning a close
professional relation with the Bourbon court in Madrid which lasted until his death. Precisely as part of his functions as Permanent Maestro
of the Chapel of the Queen Regent María Cristina of Bourbon, Rodríguez de Ledesma set the Lamentations for Easter Wednesday and Thursday
and Good Friday for celebration in the Royal Palace in Madrid at Easter in 1837 and 1843. Sublime works in their orchestral colouring, overpowering in their beauty, astonishing choruses, they seem rather to delight the spirit than invite it to withdraw as is proper to those dates.
Tomás Garrido’s work in musicological recovery is most worthy as is the edition by Verso, the outstanding Madrid label which once more, and
thanks to the invaluable support of the BBVA Foundation, promotes the diffusion of Spain’s less-known musical heritage. The recording is
rounded out by the soloists, Marta Infante at the peak of her powers, the Matritum Cantat Chorus and the Madrid Symphony Orchestra which,
under the direction of Garrido himself, put the seal on an album which is indispensable in any record collection.
NATIONAL MUSIC AUDITORIUM · BBVA FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION
The National Music Auditorium’s Annual International
Composition Competition, held with the exclusive collaboration of the BBVA Foundation, is open to creators of
all nationalities regardless of age, and designed to foster
and promote the creation of modern music, recognise the
work of contemporary composers, and publicise it
through performing, recording and subsequently premiering the prize-winning works.
NATIONAL MUSIC AUDITORIUM · BBVA FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION
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Orchestral; Concertos
Release: 2010
1 CD
CATALOG NO. / EAN
TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Catalogue No: BS 089
Barcode: 8436009805896
FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION
Orquesta Nacional de España
Anne Mercier (violin)
Garth Knox (violal d’amore)
Frank van der Weu (electronic)
Nacho de Paz (conductor)
On 20 October 2009, the international jury appointed to adjudicate the first edition of the competition, made up of Agustín Charles, Cristóbal
Halffter, Georges Kouroupos, Zygmunt Krauze, Alexander Muellenbach and Hilda Paredes, and chaired by Luis de Pablo, short-listed the finalists from among the three hundred and thirteen scores received. After the Spanish National Orchestra conducted by Nacho de Paz had
performed the four works chosen, the competition concluded with the jury announcing its verdict and awarding the three prizes of €30,000,
€15,000 and €8,000 respectively. The works of the joint winners of the first prize, Stefan Lienenkämper and Donghoon Shin, will be premiered
as part of the Spanish National Orchestra & Choir‘s 2011-2012 season.
First Prize (ex aequo). Stefan Lienenkämper, Alemania, 1963 · Of thee I sing / Donghoon Shin. Corea, 1983 · Kalon
Second Prize. Jesús Navarro, España, 1980 · Blind Focus
Third Prize. Eneko Vadillo, España, 1973 · Cimes
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Barcode: 8436009805902
SECOND INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION
Label: BS
Orchestral
Release: 2011
1 CD
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On 7 October 2010, the international jury appointed to adjudicate the competition, made up of Theodoros Antoniou, Edith Canat de Chizy,
José María Evangelista Cabrera, Reinhard Febel, José Manuel López López and Raúl Alejandro Viñao, and chaired by Tristan Murail, shortlisted the finalists from among the one hundred and fifty-eight scores received. After the Spanish National Orchestra conducted by José Luis
Temes had performed the five works selected, the competition concluded with the jury announcing its verdict and awarding the three prizes
of €30,000, €15,000 and €8,000 respectively. The work of the winner of the first prize, Víctor Ibarra, will be premiered as part of the Spanish
National Orchestra & Choir’s 2012-2013 season.
First Prize. Víctor Ibarra, México, 1978 · Silensis
Second Prize. Manuel Martínez Burgos, España, 1970 · Signals
Third Prize (ex aecuo). Roberto David Rusconi, Italia, 1972 · Memento / Eduardo Soutullo, España, 1968 · Erfahrung und sonst nichts
NATIONAL MUSIC AUDITORIUM – BBVA FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION
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Orchestral; Concertos
Release: 2012
1 CD
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TITLE
ARTIST(S)
Barcode: 8436009805926
THIRD INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION
Iagoba Fanlo (violoncello)
Jordi Bernácer (conductor)
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On 25 November 2011 the international jury, chaired by José Ramón Encinar and made up of Gilbert Amy, Orlando García, Sandro Gorli, Ana
Lara, José Manuel López López, José María Sánchez Verdú and Tomás Marco, the latter as Secretary, selected the finalist works from among
the one hundred and forty-seven scores received.
At the competition final, the Spanish National Orchestra played the four finalist works, and following the concert the jury announced its decision
and awarded the three prizes, of 30,000, 15,000 and 8,000 euros and the finalist diploma of honour. The work winning the first prize will be
programmed as part of the Spanish National Orchestra and Chorus’s 2013/14 subscription series.
First Prize. Manuel Martínez Burgos, España, 1970 · Before silens
Second Prize. Juan Camilo Hernández Sánchez, Colombia, 1982 · Fulgural
Third Prize. Manuel Martínez Burgos, España, 1970 · Activations / Diploma or Honour. Vsevolod Polonsky, Rusia, 1970 · Èlègie
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