Obras para Arpa

Cristina Montes Mateo

THE WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN COMPOSERS The Workshop for Women Composers is an initiative of the Department of Culture and Sport, in collaboration with the Composer’s Foundation of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, the main collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Spain, the University of Cádiz and the Center for Musical Documentation in Adalusia (Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía). Ever since it was first held in 2005 it has become a meeting point, a time for reflection and creation for Spanish women composers. There are s...+ info

Alahor in Granata

Juan Diego Florez

Orquesta Ciudad de Granada

Conductor: Josep Pons

REDISCOVERING A MASTERPIECE   A year after the two hundredth anniversary of Gaetano Donizetti's birth (1797) and 150 years after his death (1848), the Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla chose to open its 1998-9 operatic season with four per­formances of Alahor in Granata, an almost for­gotten opera by the composer. This is an event al a huge historical importance since it marks the first time that the opera has been performed in the XXth century. Alahor in Granata was first performed in the Teatro Carolino in Palermo on the 7th of January 1826 but, alt­hough the opera was a...+ info

Alqibla

Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla

Conductor: Juan Luís 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