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RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia para un gentilhombre / Musica para un jardin / etc Marco Socias (guitar) / Orquesta Ciudad de Granada / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Socias and Pons hit you on the head with ethnic flavouring, the music sings tartly, then sweetly, but always with a Spanish accent." - The Times (22 Oct 2002) |
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ROBERTO SIERRA
Sinfonía No. 3 'La Salsa', Borikén, El Baile & Beyond the Silence of Sorrow N. Scott Momaday (Lyricist), Martha Guth (soprano) / Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico , Maximiano Valdés [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] The sonic colour and distinctive rhythms enshrined in these four works provide further evidence of the art of internationally acclaimed Puerto Rican composer, Roberto Sierra. |
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LALO / SARASATE / RAVEL / WAXMAN
Apasionado Ning Feng (violin) / Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Rossen Milanov [ Channel Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] On this CD, full of virtuoso firework, romantic lyricism and temperamentful folklore, the borders between Spain and France fade and passion takes over. When Ning Feng was asked to perform with the Spanish Orchestra Sinfónica del Principado de... |
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CHARLES IVES / FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SHUMANN
Ives: Orchestral Works Orchestra New England, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, James Sinclair [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Charles Ives was a master of miniatures, and this program brings together a miscellanea of numerous shorter pieces that includes seven world premieres. Embracing ragtime before it became a craze at the end of the 19th century, Ives' Four Ragtime... |
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BIZET
L'Arlasienne Suites / Symphony in C Orquesta Ciudad de Granada / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Written by a 17-year old composer, the totally classical Symphony in C major 'sounds... as if there had not been hundreds written before it. |
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STRAVINSKY
The Firebird / Jeu de Cartes (Complete Ballets) Orquesta Ciudad de Granada / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 28/Jun/2004 ] "Two contrasted Stravinsky ballets played by this enthusiastic Spanish ensemble and given a new feel by their smaller-than-usual presentation." - Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (May 2001) |
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RUPERTO CHAPI
Symphony in D Minor / Fantasía morisca Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid / Jose Ramon Encinar [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 27/Sep/2010 ] "A bargain for admirers of Chapí's colourful and tuneful music. …Encinar and his Madrid forces are completely assured…" (Gramophpne) |
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Orquesta D'talle
D'talle [ Bis / CD ] |
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Orquesta Los Surik
Alma Musical [ Bis / CD ] |
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Orquesta Maravilla De Florida
Levantate Y Baila [ Bis / CD ] |
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Orquesta SinfAnica de Entre RAÂos Gabriel Castagna, conductor
Escenas Argentinas: A Symphonic Anthology [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Jul/2004 ] 'Gabriel Castagna has already proved himself something of a Piazzolla specialist... all the perofrmances sound affectionate and thoroughly idiomatic, and overall it's an undeniably enjoyable disc.' BBC Music Magazine |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Symphonies Vol.1 Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Jun/2024 ] Dima Slobodeniouk has his Galician orchestra at the tip of his baton in the crisp sforzandos that punctuate the first movement of the Symphony in Three Movements. - Gramophone |
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Orquesta Sinfanica de Tenerife Victor Pablo Parez, conductor
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Symphony No. 10 (Amerindia) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] "Villa-Lobos mixed up history, religion and geography to produce this sprawling epic...an excellent performance" (Gramophone Jan 2004) |
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EVENCIO CASTELLANOS
Santa Cruz de Pacairigua / El Rio de las Siete Estrellas Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela, Jan Wagner [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Evencio Castellanos belonged to the generation of Venezuelan composers who established a new nationalistic style in the first half of the 20th century. One of his best known works, Santa Cruz de Pacairigua pays homage to the construction of a church... |
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Orquesta Son Damas
A Todo Ritmo [ Bis / CD ] |
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Orquesta Sublime
Sublime Habana [ Bis / CD ] |
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TRADITIONAL / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / JOAQUIN TURINA / MANUEL de FALLA
Alhambra, a musical tour Alain Planes, Albert Guinovart, Bernarda Fink, Javier Perianes / Atrium Musicae de Madrid / The Dufay Collective / Orquesta Ciudad de Granada [ Harmonia Mundi Resonances / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] From the Arab conquest to the 20th century, Granada was at once the centre and the object of intense musical creation, embodied in the emblematic Alhambra Palace and its gardens, the subjects of musical fantasies of all kinds. It was a fascination... |
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Rojitas Y Su Orquesta
La Fiesta Del Caribe [ Bis / CD ] |
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CARL ORFF
Orff: Carmina Burana Sara Blanch, André Baleiro, Joaquín Asiáin / Orfeón Pamplonés, Escolanía de Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, Orquesta de Valencia, Liebreich [ Accentus Music / CD - released 28/Nov/2025 ] They are one of the most famous and frequently performed works of classical music: Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana". The Latin title refers to a collection of songs from Benediktbeuren dating from the 11th and 12th centuries with texts written in Middle... |
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GE GAN-RU
Fairy Lady Meng Jiang / Lovers Besieged Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Enrique Diemecke [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2014 ] The present disc combines two works which both proudly display their Chinese roots. The flute concerto Fairy Lady Meng Jiang is inspired by a classic Chinese fairy-tale, set in the 3rd century B.C. at the time of the building of the Great Wall |