José E. Ayarra, órgano
Tomás Marco, a great connoisseur of Manuel Castillo’s oeuvre and personality, has defined this Sevillian master as “the Spanish composer of his generation who has served the organ world the most frequently and with the highest quality” (Manuel Castillo, Transvanguardia y Postmodernidad. Málaga 2003: 74). Marco remarks that between a generation of illustrious musicians such as Cristóbal Halffter, Luis de Pablo, Carmelo Bernaola, Antón García Abril and Tomás Marco himself, “it is absolutely certain” that nobody has written o...+ info
Pilar Jurado, Canto
Susana GarcÃa Lastra, Órgano
WOMEN COMPOSERS WORKSHOP WOMEN COMPOSERS WORKSHOP is an initiative of the Spanish Music Festival of Cadiz, with the sponsorship of the Regional Ministry of Culture of the Government of Andalusia, the Andalusia Women’s Institute, University of Cadiz and the Musical Documentation Center of Andalusia. Since its first edition in 2005, it has become a meeting point for reflection and creation of Spanish women composers. Seminars, meetings, discussions, publications of aesthetic thought of the creators, editions of printed music and sound recordings are carried out. Its aim is to visualize a...+ info
Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla
Conductor: Juan LuÃs Pérez
MUSIC PROPOSALS FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM ... And Music, ever new, out the most trembling of stones, builds in unusable space its deified house. (R. M. Rilke, Sonnetts to Orpheus). The ambition, depth and international prestige of José María Sánchez-Verdú (*1968) have developed consistently during the years between the composition of his first chamber music works, such as AST-TRIVIUM (1992) and Libro para un quinteto (‘Book for a quintet’, 1994) and his most recent première, Elogio del aire (2007) for violin and orchestra. Since then, the co...+ info
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