La Música de Al-Andalus

Ensemble Al-Ruzafa

Conductor: Hames Bitar

Aleppo: custody of the musical tradition from the Orient.   Aleppo is an important trading city and communication cross-point where the most pure traditions of Arabic chant have been preserved. The most characteristic expression of this chant is the vocal improvisations or layali, through which the complete doctrine of maqam was developed into a form of choral music, the qad (alqudud in plural), related to the muaxaha genre, very well-known in Al-Andalus.   From the eighteenth century onwards, the muaxaha expanded through the Mid-Orient, particularly in Aleppo, where it is known ...+ info

José Muñoz Molleda

Orquesta de Córdoba

Conductor: José Luis Temes

JOSÉ MUÑOZ MOLLEDA: WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA In strictly chronological terms, José Muñoz Molleda must be considered a member of the so-called Generation of 27 (also the Silver Generation or the Generation of the Republic), because he borra in the sarne year (1905) as for example Ernesto Halffter, Emilio Lehmberg and Jesús Bal y Gay. Then, he was a year older than Gustavo Pittaluga and Simón Tapia-Colman (1906) and a little younger than Jesús García Leoz (1904), Evaristo Fernández Blanco and Rosa García Ascot (1902), Arturo D&...+ info

Una Iberia para Albéniz

Juan Carlos Garvayo

Una Iberia para Albéniz is the result of custom made by the Spanish Association of Classical Music Festivals (FestClásica) to twelve Spanish composers: Fernando Buide del Real, Zulema de la Cruz, Gabriel Erkoreka, Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher, José García Román, Pilar Jurado, Marisa Stained, Hector Parra, David del Puerto, Mauricio Sotelo, Jesús Torres and José Luis Turina, to mark the double anniversary of the birth and death the brilliant composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) in 2009 and 2010. Based on the twelve tracks that ...+ info