Spanish Classics - Don Quixote in Spanish Music | Naxos 8570260

Spanish Classics - Don Quixote in Spanish Music

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570260

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd April 2007

Contents

Artists

José Antonio López (baritone)
Lilian Moriani (soprano)
Victoria Marchante (soprano)
Celia Alcedo (soprano)
María José Suárez (mezzo-soprano)
Víctor Arriola (violín solo)
Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid

Conductor

José Ramón Encinar

Works

Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo

Don Quijote

Gombau, Gerardo

Don Quijote velando las armas

Guerra, Jorge Fernandez

Momentos de Don Quichotte (3)

Rodrigo, Joaquin

Ausencias de Dulcinea (Dulcinea's Absence)

Roman, Jose Garcia

La Resurrection de Don Quijote

Artists

José Antonio López (baritone)
Lilian Moriani (soprano)
Victoria Marchante (soprano)
Celia Alcedo (soprano)
María José Suárez (mezzo-soprano)
Víctor Arriola (violín solo)
Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid

Conductor

José Ramón Encinar

About

The five works that make up this CD are all based on Cervantes’ masterpiece and all written by Spanish composers. 
 
They give us a musical insight into a literary work that is still vibrant and relevant today, not only as an entertaining, thought-provoking text, but also as a source of artistic inspiration. 
 
From Barbieri’s mid-nineteenth-century stage work (1861) to Jorge Fernández Guerra’s new soundtrack for Pabst’s 1930s film (2005), from echoes of Spanish song to the European symphonic tradition, Don Quixote has inspired musical creations and re-creations ranging from the faithful to the utopian, from attempts at programmatic depictions of the knight’s thousand and one tales to heartfelt idealisations.

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