Spanish Songs for Soprano & Guitar
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD078
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 18th May 2009
Contents
Works
Spanish songs (7) for high voice and guitar 'Cantares'Aranjuez, ma pensee
Canciones espanolas (12)
» Coplas del pastor enamorado
» Folias Canarias
» Romance de Durandarte
Villancicos (Retablo de Navidad) (3)Seguidillas (12)
Artists
Patricia Rozario (soprano)Craig Ogden (guitar)
Works
Spanish songs (7) for high voice and guitar 'Cantares'Aranjuez, ma pensee
Canciones espanolas (12)
» Coplas del pastor enamorado
» Folias Canarias
» Romance de Durandarte
Villancicos (Retablo de Navidad) (3)Seguidillas (12)
Artists
Patricia Rozario (soprano)Craig Ogden (guitar)
About
The collection of music on this disc is either arranged from original folk sources or originally composed for soprano and guitar. In this we encounter a somewhat surprisingly wide-ranging degree of expressive content for female voice and the six-stringed acoustic guitar. In this way, we are drawn into a more personal, intimate mode of expression, which speaks to a small, select group of listeners and which, in its natural mode, returns to its folk-based roots.
This album mostly contains songs by three major Spanish-born composers. Fernando Sor, born in 1778 in Barcelona, was admired by the greatest composers of the day, including Chopin, Rossini, Moscheles, Cherubini and Méhul. His wide-ranging output has genuinely musical charm and originality and the twelve Seguidillas for voice and guitar, a rare vocal work, is a wonderful set of songs, often highly atmospheric, which range from sadness, unrequited love and passion, to suspicion and humour. The result overall is a genuine masterpiece, constituting one of the first song-cycles ever written.
The Catalan Roberto Gerhard was born in Valls in 1896 and lived and studied in Spain until he was almost 30, when he began studies with Schoenberg in Vienna and Berlin. He eventually settled in England and lived in Cambridge, until his death in 1970. The collection of Cantares, seven Spanish songs for voice and guitar (out of which, only six were chosen for recording by Rozario and Ogden), are founded on the original folk-based material which sets the musical scene at once. Gerhard’s settings preserve the inherent sense of momentum which all folk-music possesses but they are almost paradoxically ‘modern’ yet timeless. The Cantares constitute Gerhard’s last vocal work of any kind.
The music of Joaquin Rodrigo has become famous internationally owing to the immense popularity of his Concierto de Aranjuez of 1939. It’s interesting that in 1988 the famous second movement of this Concerto was turned by the composer’s widow, Victoria Kamhi, into a song for voice and guitar with the title of Aranjuez, ma penseée. Present on this disc are also Rodrigo’s Villancicos and three Spanish songs from his 12 Canciones populares espanolas - included in this disc are Coplas del pastor enamorado (1983), Folias Canarias (1959) and the Romance de Durandarte which was one of the last works by Rodrigo to be published during his lifetime, appearing in 1995 when he was 92. Rodrigo’s settings are simpler in style compared with Gehard’s, the composer preferring to let the vocal line express almost all of the emotion.
Patricia Rozario is highly regarded worldwide and her performances range from baroque to contemporary music. This is repertoire which she has always loved singing but has never had the chance to record and one can sense her enjoyment.
Craig Ogden has performed concertos with all the major UK orchestras and is Principal Lecturer of guitar at RNCM.
This album mostly contains songs by three major Spanish-born composers. Fernando Sor, born in 1778 in Barcelona, was admired by the greatest composers of the day, including Chopin, Rossini, Moscheles, Cherubini and Méhul. His wide-ranging output has genuinely musical charm and originality and the twelve Seguidillas for voice and guitar, a rare vocal work, is a wonderful set of songs, often highly atmospheric, which range from sadness, unrequited love and passion, to suspicion and humour. The result overall is a genuine masterpiece, constituting one of the first song-cycles ever written.
The Catalan Roberto Gerhard was born in Valls in 1896 and lived and studied in Spain until he was almost 30, when he began studies with Schoenberg in Vienna and Berlin. He eventually settled in England and lived in Cambridge, until his death in 1970. The collection of Cantares, seven Spanish songs for voice and guitar (out of which, only six were chosen for recording by Rozario and Ogden), are founded on the original folk-based material which sets the musical scene at once. Gerhard’s settings preserve the inherent sense of momentum which all folk-music possesses but they are almost paradoxically ‘modern’ yet timeless. The Cantares constitute Gerhard’s last vocal work of any kind.
The music of Joaquin Rodrigo has become famous internationally owing to the immense popularity of his Concierto de Aranjuez of 1939. It’s interesting that in 1988 the famous second movement of this Concerto was turned by the composer’s widow, Victoria Kamhi, into a song for voice and guitar with the title of Aranjuez, ma penseée. Present on this disc are also Rodrigo’s Villancicos and three Spanish songs from his 12 Canciones populares espanolas - included in this disc are Coplas del pastor enamorado (1983), Folias Canarias (1959) and the Romance de Durandarte which was one of the last works by Rodrigo to be published during his lifetime, appearing in 1995 when he was 92. Rodrigo’s settings are simpler in style compared with Gehard’s, the composer preferring to let the vocal line express almost all of the emotion.
Patricia Rozario is highly regarded worldwide and her performances range from baroque to contemporary music. This is repertoire which she has always loved singing but has never had the chance to record and one can sense her enjoyment.
Craig Ogden has performed concertos with all the major UK orchestras and is Principal Lecturer of guitar at RNCM.
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