Juanjo Mena, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Berit Norbakken Solset – Arriaga: Overtures, Herminie & Other Works (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Juanjo Mena, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Berit Norbakken Solset – Arriaga: Overtures, Herminie & Other Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:09 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Spanish music specialist and former Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Juanjo Mena continues the series La Música de España, which has seen the recording of some of the orchestral works of de Falla, Turina and Albéniz, with another important Spanish composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, nicknamed after his death as ‘the Spanish Mozart’.The orchestral overture to ‘Los esclavos felices’ (The Happy Slaves) is all that remains of the opera the child prodigy Arriaga wrote aged 14. When Arriaga moved to Paris to study under Fétis, Guérin and Baillot in 1821, he revised the overture, making changes to the instrumentation and removing a third theme group. It is the revised version heard on this recording. Air from Médée and Herminie form parts of the autograph volume ‘Ensayos lírico-dramáticos’ (Lyric-dramatic essays) that completes this release, here sung by one of Scandinavia’s most sought after concert singers, Berit Norbakken Solset. Tonally ambiguous Symphony in D minor (which begins and ends in D major) alongside the Overture in D major, which was written ‘without having learnt the principles of harmony’ are proof that Arriaga’s premature death aged 19 was a ‘sad loss to Basque music’.

Tracklist:

01. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Los esclavos felices: Overture (2nd Version) (07:22)
02. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Herminie: No. 1, Le jour frappe mes yeux (01:43)
03. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Herminie: No. 2, Longtemps, hélas! (03:33)
04. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Herminie: No. 3, Mais sur cette arène guerrière (01:19)
05. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Herminie: No. 4, Il n’est plus… Dieux cruels! (02:28)
06. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Herminie: No. 5, Se peut-il! (01:13)
07. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Herminie: No. 6, Tancrède me devra le jour (05:40)
08. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Overture in D Major, Op. 20 (11:13)
09. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Médée: Hymen, viens dissiper une vaine frayeur (05:22)
10. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Symphony in D Major: I. Adagio-Allegro vivace (10:35)
11. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Symphony in D Major: II. Andante (06:45)
12. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Symphony in D Major: III. Minuetto. Allegro-Trio (03:52)
13. Berit Norbakken Solset, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena – Symphony in D Major: IV. Allegro con moto (06:59)

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