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Naxos has assembled an intriguingly diverse selection of music inspired by Don Quixote. The range of styles represented here dictate that the CD will be of most interest to listeners with broadly eclectic tastes because the music ranges from typically Romantic music from the mid-nineteenth century to very challenging and uncompromising modernism. For the listener with open ears, all of the pieces contribute something to an understanding of Don Quixote -- the novel is so universal in its humanism and so catholic in the range of experience it describes that no single aesthetic could adequately address it. Joaquín Rodrigo's 1948 Ausencias de Dulcinea (Dulcinea's Absence) is a quirky but hugely attractive piece. Scored for orchestra, baritone, three sopranos, and one mezzo-soprano, it is a melancholy meditation on Don Quixote's search for his ideal Dulcinea, who is given voice by the women. This is brightly colored music, fragrant with the Spanishness that's typical of much of Rodrigo's work, and it successfully evokes the poignancy of the Don's deluded quest. Despite its optimistic title, José García Román's 1994 Le resurrección de Don Quixote is relentlessly dark -- an agonizingly nihilistic modernist nightmare that illustrates the hellish emptiness the humiliated Don would have experienced when he realized the futility of his dream. Jorge Fernández Guerra wrote a new score for G.W. Pabst's 1933 film Don Quichotte in 2005. It is very good film music -- it retains a relatively low profile, but is colorful, inventive, and driven by a musical logic that is clearly not merely illustrative of what is going on onscreen. Gerardo Gombau acknowledges his debt to Strauss in his1945 tone poem Don Quijote velando las armas (Don Quixote keeps vigil over his armour), and while it is indeed Straussian in its musical language, there is no danger if it supplanting Strauss' own Don Quixote.
The performances by Orquesta del la Comunidad de Madrid, conducted by José Ramón Encinar, are consistently lively and committed, as persuasive in Francisco Asenjo Barbieri's 1861 Don Quijote as in Román's bleak existential soundscape. Naxos' sound is clean and full. For the listener interested in pursuing further musical connections with Cervantes' great novel, Jordi Savall's album on Alia Vox, Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quijote de la Mancha: Romances y Músicas, includes Spanish music written around the same time as the novel, superbly performed and interspersed with readings.
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Ausencias de Dulcinea (Dulcinea's Absence) (Joaquín Rodrigo)
Joaquin Rodrigo, Composer - Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Victoria Marchante, Artist - Celia Alcedo, Artist - José Antonio López, Artist, MainArtist - Lilian Moriani, Artist - Maria Jose Suarez, Artist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
La resurrección de Don Quijote (José Garcia Roman)
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Victor Arriola, Artist, MainArtist - Jose Garcia Roman, Composer
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Don Quijote, Act I (Francisco Asenjo Barbieri)
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra - Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Composer - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Coro De La Comunidad De Madrid, Choir - Fernando Cobo, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Don Quijote, Act II (Francisco Asenjo Barbieri)
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra - Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Composer - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Coro De La Comunidad De Madrid, Choir - Fernando Cobo, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Don Quijote, Act III (Francisco Asenjo Barbieri)
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra - Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Composer - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Coro De La Comunidad De Madrid, Choir - Fernando Cobo, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
3 momentos de Don Quichotte
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra, MainArtist - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Jorge Fernandez Guerra, Composer
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra, MainArtist - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Jorge Fernandez Guerra, Composer
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra, MainArtist - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Jorge Fernandez Guerra, Composer
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Don Quijote velando las armas (Don Quixote keeping vigil over his armour)
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra, MainArtist - José Ramón Encinar, Conductor - Gerardo Gombau, Composer
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
Album review
Naxos has assembled an intriguingly diverse selection of music inspired by Don Quixote. The range of styles represented here dictate that the CD will be of most interest to listeners with broadly eclectic tastes because the music ranges from typically Romantic music from the mid-nineteenth century to very challenging and uncompromising modernism. For the listener with open ears, all of the pieces contribute something to an understanding of Don Quixote -- the novel is so universal in its humanism and so catholic in the range of experience it describes that no single aesthetic could adequately address it. Joaquín Rodrigo's 1948 Ausencias de Dulcinea (Dulcinea's Absence) is a quirky but hugely attractive piece. Scored for orchestra, baritone, three sopranos, and one mezzo-soprano, it is a melancholy meditation on Don Quixote's search for his ideal Dulcinea, who is given voice by the women. This is brightly colored music, fragrant with the Spanishness that's typical of much of Rodrigo's work, and it successfully evokes the poignancy of the Don's deluded quest. Despite its optimistic title, José García Román's 1994 Le resurrección de Don Quixote is relentlessly dark -- an agonizingly nihilistic modernist nightmare that illustrates the hellish emptiness the humiliated Don would have experienced when he realized the futility of his dream. Jorge Fernández Guerra wrote a new score for G.W. Pabst's 1933 film Don Quichotte in 2005. It is very good film music -- it retains a relatively low profile, but is colorful, inventive, and driven by a musical logic that is clearly not merely illustrative of what is going on onscreen. Gerardo Gombau acknowledges his debt to Strauss in his1945 tone poem Don Quijote velando las armas (Don Quixote keeps vigil over his armour), and while it is indeed Straussian in its musical language, there is no danger if it supplanting Strauss' own Don Quixote.
The performances by Orquesta del la Comunidad de Madrid, conducted by José Ramón Encinar, are consistently lively and committed, as persuasive in Francisco Asenjo Barbieri's 1861 Don Quijote as in Román's bleak existential soundscape. Naxos' sound is clean and full. For the listener interested in pursuing further musical connections with Cervantes' great novel, Jordi Savall's album on Alia Vox, Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quijote de la Mancha: Romances y Músicas, includes Spanish music written around the same time as the novel, superbly performed and interspersed with readings.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : 66:12 - DDD - Enregistré en juillet 2005 à la Salle de l'orchestre & chœur de la Communauté de Madrid, Hortaleza, Madrid en Espagne - Notes en anglais et en espagnol avec textes chantés dans les deux langues
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:06
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: José Ramón Encinar
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Area: Espagne
- Genre: Classical Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred)
- Collection: Naxos Spanish Classics
(C) 2007 Naxos (P) 2007 Naxos
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