The three composers who make up this project - Dimitri Shostakovich, Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti - are, each by their own vital circumstance, survivors of the totalitarianisms that ravaged Europe in the thirties and forties. The chosen works, written in a time interval of approximately a quarter of a century, are exemplary in terms of the reflection of the aesthetic changes of their time. Shostakovich's preludes are imbued with a late neoclassicism opposed by the young people of Darmstadt as Stockhausen, in an alleged tabula rasa after the horror of the war that pushed the postulates of the second Viennese school to the limit. In between, Ligeti opted for a third way clearly indebted to the Bartokian heritage. José Luis Besada
Disco monográfico dedicado a la música para tecla de Félix Máximo López (1742-1821), compositor y organista de la Capilla Real del Palacio Real de Madrid, y uno de los mayores representantes del clasicismo español. Entre lo cortesano y lo popular, entre sonatas y fandangos.
Tomás Marco deconstructs reality to recompose it and return it interpreted and transformed in a work of art, achieving what Hegel denominated “the sensitive appearance of the idea”, that is, knowledge, which “puts man before himself” and makes of art “a experience that transforms whom experiments it” (Gadamer, Truth and Method) and which, unlike Nietzsche, for whom his time was not radically “his time”, philosophically places him in the time he has to live. Tomás Marco is a man of his time that cultivates, explores and scrutinises with his look that is always critic and never free from enriching eagerness. He fulfils what his time demands him and, as a result, his work is developing as one of the historical reasons of our time.
Universal Music has launched the latest Mario Prisuelos Cd "Adalid: the romantic piano" recorded with piano music by galician composer Marcial del Adalid (1826-1881), in a project to recover the music of this galician composer that is the the most important spanish romantic composer.
A discographic view by six spanish composers from a new generation, born all of them from 1975 to 1988. Mario Carro, Héctor Parra, Alberto Carretero, Hermes Luaces, José Minguillón and Joan Magrané show us the present in spanish composition, that exposes us a liberated creative moment in which the different aesthetics live together. This is the second recording by Mario Prisuelos for Verso label, showing his compromise with contemporary music that takes him usually to perform and premiere actual works, most of the times dedicated to him, in venues all around the world.
An spanish music compilation that begin with some of the Antonio Soler sonatas, passing through Marcial del Adalid romanticism, andalusian influence in great composers as Albeniz, Granados or Falla, the very personal music by Federico Mompou and the present music by Consuelo Díez, Tomás Marco and Daniel Stéfani. This selection show us as the spanish piano evolution has growed with the different aesthetics and artistics movements that the composers lived.