Germán A. Beigbeder (1882-1968)

Orquesta de Córdoba

Conductor: Gloria Isabel Ramos

GERMÁN Á. BEIGBEDER (1882-1968)   Germán Álvarez-Beigbeder was born in Jerez de la Frontera, in the province of Cadiz, on 15 December 1882, and died in Madrid on 11 September 1968. He came from a wealthy family of French origin that had settled in Jerez in the 18th century. The family worked in the wine trade, and had founded an internationally renowned sherry bodega. Álvarez-Beigbeder belongs to what became known as the Generation of the Maestros, which also included figures such as Conrado del Campo, Julio Gómez, Joaquín Turina and s...+ info

Zayin

Arditti String Quartet

ZAYIN BY FRANCISCO GUERRERO   Born in Jaén on the 7th of July 1951, Francisco Guerrero began his musical studies self-taught at the age of six, with the help and advice of his father, who was an excellent teacher. He became a pupil of Juan Alfonso García in Granada and soon showed a precocious talent which led to his receiving the Manuel de Falla Prize in 1970 for his composition Facturas. From his earliest works he shows a particular inclination to investigate the nature of sound to its farthest limits (his interest in electroacoustic technology had begun in the early ...+ info

De los álamos de Sevilla

Juan Carlos Rivera, Vihuela

TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT INSTRUMENTAL TRADITION IN SPAIN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Our knowledge of instrumental music in Spain or in Western Europe before the end of s. XV is very low for the simple reason that it is difficult for that type of music that we have arrived. All of that time there are some keyboard tabs Germany, England or Italy, but no music for other instruments. There to do a very simple explanation: that music was not written normally, or at least, if you used some kind of notation, this was basic, with mnemonics for, had written on slips of paper that have not withstood the ove...+ info