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

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

Rollos de Pianola

PIANOLA: PORTRAIT OF A MUSICAL WONDER   Its ancestors For centuries; the ability to enjoy music without the effort of learning the associated necessary techniques has been a chief motivation for many inventors, inspiring them to create different forms of music mechanization. The treatise La Tonotechnie ou l'art de noter les cylinders, written in 1775 by the Augustinian monk Domingo Engranelle, shows evidence of this motivation. His work served as a theoretical fundament for several subsequent inventions, including the mechanical instruments that preceded the pianola. Several of t...+ info