Track Listings (8) - Disc #1| All Artists: Eliot Fisk, José Serebrier, Barcelona Symphony, Catalonia National Orchestra Title: Balada: Piano Concerto No. 3, Concierto Magico Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Naxos Release Date: 8/21/2001 Genre: Classical Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 747313503926 |
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 | Eliot Fisk, José Serebrier, Barcelona Symphony Balada: Piano Concerto No. 3, Concierto Magico Genre: Classical
Here's a disc of contemporary works written between 1997 and 2000 that are bound to satisfy listeners who value modernism, as well as those who seek tuneful accessibility. For Spanish composer Leonardo Balada, who made his... more » |
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Amazon.com's Best of 2001 Here's a disc of contemporary works written between 1997 and 2000 that are bound to satisfy listeners who value modernism, as well as those who seek tuneful accessibility. For Spanish composer Leonardo Balada, who made his reputation with such uncompromising abstract works as the Steel Symphony, convincingly blends folk music and avant-garde compositional techniques. His Piano Concerto is rooted in the pasadoble of the bullfight arena, the sinuous music of North Africa, and the Aragonese dance the jota. It succeeds because Balada seamlessly manages the transitions from folk to contemporary sonorities and techniques. His orchestrations are wonderfully imaginative. At times in the Concierto Mágico, he transforms the orchestra into a giant guitar. At other times, the orchestra simulates the rhythmic handclapping of gypsies at a flamenco bash. Soloists are all outstanding, and Serebrier conducts with evident sympathy and enjoyment. Naxos has a real winner here. --Dan Davis Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsSomething different, you gotta listen to this one conquistador69 | 01/03/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "If you like the works and technicalities of Ligeti, or
like me, you prefer tonality, and melody, then we are in for something very special. Mr. Balada, a composer whose name became familiar to me last year(2001) when I first saw here at amazon.com the recording of his first Violin Concerto;is a composer of a very special and utmost original style. He blends folk music of his native Spain, with the most innovative, and inventive technical musical theorical procedures. In his music one can hear tone clusters at times, and yet still hears the shoe stumping of flamenco dancers, as in the first movement of his Concierto Magico for guitar and orchestra. In the Piano Concerto, he not only goes to Spain but he goes back to the Spanish past by making reference to music of Arab Andalusia (Andalusi) in the second movement of the concerto. The Music for Flute and Orchestra is his most recent recent work, it dates from the year 2000. Mr. Balada in this works shows that tradition and history can be perfectly blended to produce the most beautiful and rewarding melodies, Mr. Balada, well done!!!!" |
