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555843 Bk Rodrigo EU 8/10/06 2:25 PM Page 12 555843 bk Rodrigo EU 8/10/06 2:25 PM Page 12 SPANISH CLASSICS Also available: RODRIGO Complete Orchestral Music • 9 8.557801 Concierto serenata Sones en la Giralda Concierto de Aranjuez 8.557223 Gwyneth Wentink, Harp Asturias Symphony Orchestra (OSPA) Maximiano Valdés 8.555843 12 555843 bk Rodrigo EU 8/10/06 2:25 PM Page 2 Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias Concierto serenata • Sones en la Giralda (Fantasía sevillana) • Concierto de Aranjuez La historia de la Orquesta del Principado se remonta a 1937. Hizo su presentación oficial como Orquesta Sinfónica en Joaquín Rodrigo was born on St Cecilia’s Day, 22nd seek refuge for eighteen months at the Institute for the enero de 1940 bajo la batuta de Amalio López. En 1943 se hace cargo de su dirección Ángel Muñiz Toca, quien a lo November, 1901, in Sagunto in the Spanish province of Blind in Freiburg. In 1938 they were able to make a largo de veinte años realiza una importantísima labor musical a través de toda la provincia y también fuera de Asturias. Valencia. In 1905 an outbreak of diphtheria impaired brief visit to Spain for a summer school in Santander Con ella colaboraron los más importantes solistas del momento. Temporalmente, y por falta de recursos económicos, se the young boy’s vision and within a few years he lost but, failing to secure appropriate employment, were redujo a Orquesta de Cámara, pero a la muerte de Muñiz Toca había recobrado su primitiva forma y en homenaje a éste every vestige of sight. From the age of seven he forced to return once more to Paris. In 1939 Victoria pasó a denominarse Orquesta Sinfónica de Asturias “Ángel Muñiz Toca”. Los directores de su segunda época fueron attended the School for the Blind in the city of Valencia suffered a miscarriage brought on by exhaustion and nombres también vinculados a la vida musical asturiana, como Vicente Santimoteo y Alfonso Ordieres, hasta la llegada where, his musical gifts becoming increasingly poverty. Yet somehow, despite all these tribulations, del maestro Benito Lauret en el año 1974. En 1980 se abre una nueva etapa con la incorporación de Víctor Pablo Pérez, apparent, he played the violin and piano, the latter being Rodrigo found the strength and will to keep on etapa que culminaría en 1988 con la decisión de sustituir a la antigua Orquesta Sinfónica de Asturias por un nuevo his favourite. Later he took composition lessons with composing and during this time completed the conjunto de mayor plantilla y preparado para asumir otros repertorios más amplios que la vida musical asturiana Francisco Antich Carbonell, the renowned organist and Concierto de Aranjuez, a work which would ensure his demandaba en la década de los 90. La Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias se presentó oficialmente en 1991, maestro. Having composed various apprentice pieces, international fame. siendo su primer Director Titular Jesse Levine. En una agrupación compuesta por 69 profesores, contando desde 1994 Rodrigo was awarded an Honourable Commendation in Rodrigo returned to Spain a few days before the con la firme y segura batuta de Maximiano Valdés, director de solvente prestigio que viene desarrollando una gran 1925 in a national music competition for his orchestral start of the Second World War and with the help of carrera internacional, reconocida por la crítica, por los medios de comunicación de los distintos países donde actúa, y work, Cinco piezas infantiles, first performed by the colleagues, including Manuel de Falla, was soon offered que conduce su trayectoria artística, convirtiéndola en una excelente orquesta, cuya calidad, ductilidad y musicalidad son Valencia Symphony Orchestra two years later. posts in broadcasting and the university sufficient to incuestionables, como se constata a través de los distintos directores que la han dirigido, tanto en su repertorio sinfónico In the autumn of 1927, the young composer, earn a living. After years of deprivation, the tide began y operístico. Durante estos años ha contado con directores de prestigio y ha contado con la colaboración de solistas muy following the precedent of so many Spanish musicians, to turn with the première in Barcelona of the Concierto distinguidos. Su actividad musical afronta todo tipo de programaciones, en las que prevaleciendo el repertorio sinfónico travelled to Paris to enroll as a student at the Ecole de Aranjuez on 9th November, 1940, followed by y sinfónico-coral, colabora en la Temporada de Ópera, Temporada Lírica de Zarzuela, Ciclos de Cámara y en todas Normale de Musique. His teacher, Paul Dukas, one of performances in other Spanish cities. On 27th January, aquellas actividades en las que su presencia sea requerida dentro de la Comunidad Autónoma. También ha realizado the masters of early twentieth-century French music, 1941, the anniversary of Mozart’s birthday, Rodrigo’s diversas giras y participado en otros Festivales Internacionales fuera de Asturias. profoundly influenced Rodrigo, especially in aspects of daughter, Cecilia, was born. orchestration. In 1928, the French President awarded Though there were to be many setbacks over the Maximiano Valdés Manuel de Falla the National Legion of Honour and years, Rodrigo’s reputation as a great Spanish composer Rodrigo was invited to perform his piano pieces at the now began to gain global esteem. Throughout his long Maximiano Valdés ha estado ligado en múltiples ocasiones a la vida musical española. Ha sido director titular de la ceremony, thus extending his growing reputation as life Joaquín Rodrigo wrote more than two hundred Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi y posteriormente, durante tres temporadas, principal director invitado de la Orquesta composer and virtuoso pianist. compositions, comprising a prolific variety of orchestral Nacional de España. Ha dirigido varias veces en el Liceu de Barcelona y la Orquesta de la Ciudad de Barcelona. Around the same time, Rodrigo met Victoria pieces, concertos, songs and choral works, and pieces También ha realizado conciertos con la Orquesta de Radio Televisión, las Sinfónicas de Bilbao, Málaga, Sevilla y Kamhi, a young Jewish pianist from Istanbul, the for piano, violin, guitar, cello, and other instruments, his otras orquestas importantes españolas. Desde julio de 1994 es Director Titular y Artístico de la Orquesta Sinfónica daughter of a businessman. Despite various difficulties, music being increasingly in demand and more and more del Principado de Asturias. Nacido en Santiago de Chile, de antiguo origen asturiano, realizó sus estudios musicales financial and otherwise, they fell in love and were appreciated worldwide. en el Conservatorio Nacional y posteriormente en la Academia de Santa Cecilia en Roma. En Italia estudió eventually married in January 1933, but a year later Joaquín Rodrigo was attracted to writing for the composición con G. Petrassi, además de piano y violín. Después de algunos años dedicados a la composición, hardship enforced months of separation, a dilemma harp because of the instrument’s ‘joyful sonorities and estudió con Franco Ferrara Dirección de Orquesta en Roma y posteriormente en Venecia. En 1976 fue Director resolved only when Rodrigo was awarded a prestigious affinity for diatonic music, that is to say for music of Asistente del Teatro de la Fenice en Venecia y al año siguiente fue Director Invitado en Tanglewood, donde trabajó Conde de Cartagena Scholarship, enabling him to study clarity and simplicity’. Concierto serenata (1952), con Leonard Bernstein y Seiji Ozawa. Su carrera profesional empieza en 1982, después de ganar dos importantes abroad and thus be reunited with his wife in Paris. In dedicated to the eminent Basque harpist, Nicanor premios internacionales: el Vittorio Gui en Florencia y el N. Malko en Copenhague. Ha dirigido orquestas 1936 disaster struck again when the Spanish Civil War Zabaleta (1907-1993), was intended by Rodrigo ‘as a prestigiosas en Francia, Inglaterra, y Italia, y desde 1990 ha sido titular en la Filarmónica de Buffalo en E.U., con began and the scholarship fund was no longer available. message for the younger generation, evoking sounds of la cual ha realizado grabaciones y giras. Eventually Rodrigo and his wife were compelled to fiestas and customs of other epochs’. For this reason the 8.555843 2 11 8.555843 555843 bk Rodrigo EU 8/10/06 2:25 PM Page 10 característica intensidad rítmica. La obra es vívidamente clásica y flamenca”, el arpa está también “llena del composition is inspired by a vision of Spain two virtuosic throughout for the harpist in collaboration with virtuosística en todo momento para el arpista en espíritu de brillantez cristalina y posee elementos de centuries or more ago, with references to composers a fiery accompaniment from the orchestra. colaboración con un fogoso acompañamiento de la evocaciones lejanas”. such as Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), the great Concierto de Aranjuez, destined to be the most orquesta. Cada uno de los tres movimientos crea impresiones Catalan master of the harpsichord, and Francisco celebrated guitar work of the twentieth century, takes its El Concierto de Aranjuez, destinado a ser la obra de las glorias de la España eterna, ya sea pasada o Barbieri (1823-1894), also a conductor and name from the magnificent Aranjuez palace (once a guitarrística más célebre del siglo XX, toma su nombre presente. El primer movimiento, un remolino de color y musicologist. royal summer residence), fifty kilometres south of del magnífico palacio de Aranjuez (en tiempos una agitación, da paso al conmovedor Adagio, el corazón de Concierto serenata begins with Estudiantina Madrid. Since its première by Regino Sáinz de la Maza, residencia estival de la monarquía española), cincuenta la obra con sus temas intrincadamente ornamentados, su (Allegro ma non troppo) which follows the first its dedicatee, the work has received hundreds of kilómetros al sur de Madrid. Desde su estreno con reflexiva cadencia y el soberbio clímax, tras el cual la movement structure of the classical concerto form, but, performances and innumerable recordings, as well as Regino Sáinz de la Maza, su dedicatario, la obra ha pasión da paso a la serenidad.
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