Xavier Montsalvatge - Orchestral Works
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10735
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 3rd September 2012
Contents
Artists
Ruby Hughes (soprano)Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Juanjo MenaWorks
Calidoscopi simfonicCanciones negras (5)
Partita 1958
Simfonia de Requiem
Artists
Ruby Hughes (soprano)Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Juanjo MenaAbout
Montsalvatge was one on the most influential musical figures in Catalan music during the latter half of the twentieth century. He explored virtually every musical form, but many of his most significant works, including Cinco Canciones Negras (Five Negro Songs), were written after his discovery of the art of the Antilles. He was fascinated by West Indian music which, as he wrote, ‘was itself originally Spanish, exported to the Caribbean, and then re-imported’.
In Cinco Canciones Negras for mezzo-soprano and orchestra he set a varied collection of poems from the Caribbean and Spain, adopting the captivating rhythms of the West Indies. ‘Canción de Cuna para Dormira a un Negrito’ can only be described as one of the tenderest lullabies in the repertoire, presenting a vivid contrast to the exhilarating display of rumba-like rhythms in ‘Canto Negro’.
Partita 1958, which in the words of Montsalvatge is ‘not entirely unrelated to classicism’, is strongly inspired by the works of Darius Milhaud, who had discovered the intoxicating rhythms of Latin-American music during the First World War, and had introduced them into his own compositions to sensational effect in the 1920s.
Calidoscopi simfònic derives from an early, unfinished ballet, El Angel de la Guarda (The Guardian Angel). The impressionistically evocative introduction is irresistible evidence of Montsalvatge’s genius as a ballet composer, while the finale is an uninhibited celebration of primitive rhythms with thudding percussion, snarling trombones, uproarious trumpets and, in the slower middle section, a characteristically melodious cor anglais.
In spite of his immense creativity, Montsalvatge never wrote a mass or a symphony. In 1985, however, he did combine the two genres in a symphonic version of the Requiem Mass, the Simfonia de Rèquiem, which features no words and no voices until the very end of the last movement. Montsalvatge intended ‘to ignore the orthodox religious aspect and to concentrate on bringing out its profound, forceful message, which is both sad and sublime, by the means of the orchestra’.
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