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Three recent works by the English composer Arnold Griller (b. 1937) are joined here by the earliest music he still acknowledges, the gentle and touching Concerto Grosso for string orchestra (1955), which is informed by a serenity and wisdom uncommon in such a young composer. Like Berg's Violin Concerto, Griller's (2017) was born of his response to the loss of a young life, and shares Berg's elegiac awareness of dying beauty; the Trumpet Concerto (2018), by way of deliberate contrast, accumulates energy and vivacity as it proceeds. Dances under an Autumn Sky (2017), subtitled 'Orchestral Music in Six Scenes', is a balletic blend of joie de vivre and intense instrumental drama, which shares Stravinsky's fondness for rhythmic surprises and Tippett's for angular, primal energy. Album Tracks 1. Dances under an Autumn Sky~Scene One (Moderato) - 2. Dances under an Autumn Sky~Scene Two (Quarter Note=116) 3. Dances under an Autumn Sky~Scene Three (Quarter Note=184) 4. Dances under an Autumn Sky~Scene Four (Quarter Note=80) 5. Dances under an Autumn Sky~Scene Five (Quarter Note=120) - 6. Dances under an Autumn Sky~Scene Six (Più mosso Quarter Note=184) 7. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Opening - 8. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Bar 64 - 9. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Bar 99 - 10. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Bar 149 - 11. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Bar 253 - 12. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Bar 324 - 13. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Bar 412 - 14. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Bar 454 - 15. Violin Concerto, Music for Yodit Tekle~Bar 504-54 16. Concerto Grosso~I. Aubade (Quarter Note=80) 17. Concerto Grosso~II. Afternoon Music (Quarter Note=112) 18. Concerto Grosso~III. Serenade (Quarter Note=76) 19. Concerto Grosso~IV. Night Music (Quarter Note=48) 20. Trum

Los Libros del Delphin de música para vihuela, by composer and vihuelist Luys de Narváez is one of the finest monuments of Iberian music of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. Xavier Díaz-Latorre here presents a splendid version of the complete works for vihuela solo by de Narváez; the beauty of the composer's counterpoint, the clarity of his part-writing and the sensivity of the performer cannot leave the listener unmoved. For this recording, Xavier Díaz-Latorre has used the vihuela La Aldonza by the luthier Carlos González (Aguadulce, 2017) and the vihuela L'hollandaise by the luthier Patrick Hopmans (Sant Cugat Sesgarrigues, 1997), both strung entirely with gut strings.

Album Tracks 1. Mon Éléphant 2. Anus Mundi 3. À la Campagne 4. Here I Am 5. Trafic en Galaxie 6. Can Your Bird Sing? 7. Kakouline 8. Reprend 9. MMM