Terese Fredenwall - Not About the Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The opening Trois danses cubaines by Alejandro García Caturla (1906-1940) is very much a typical example of Hispano-American musical culture, and would be right at home on a disc of music by Chavez, Villa-Lobos or Ginastera. Like Aaron Copland, he studied under Nadia Boulanger during a stay in Paris, and likewise seamlessly integrates old and new world techniques to great effect. Too bad he died so young. He was a lawyer by day, and it seems one of his clients was rather InchdisappointedInch by his services. The following Preludio para Penthesilea by composer Carlos Fariñas (1934-2002) has, according to the liner notes, become a highly requested concert piece, and I can understand why. With it's constant barrage of multiple percussion instruments adding layer after layer of cross-rhythms and powerful forward momentum, it's hypnotic and almost ritualistic effect could certainly bring an audience to it's feet. A quick change of gears brings US to the beautifully exotic Pregón y Danza by Enrique González Mántici (1912-1974) whose opening pages bring to mind a sound reminescent of Miles Davis around his InchSketches of SpainInch period. The aptly titled Rítmotiv, first performed in 2002 under the direction of it's composer Guido López-Gavilán del Rosario (b1944), is an orchestral tour-de-force as it introduces, overlaps and superimposes various rhythmic motifs and melodies to become a cornucopia of captivating sounds all assembled together by a craftsman. The final work on this CD, the deeply moving in Memoriam. A mi esposa Lillian Acosta by Alfredo Diez Nieto (b1918), once again demonstrates that grief is very much a universal human emotion and is expressed the same way regardless of nationality. It's the odd man out on this CD, simply because for that reason, it does not sound Cuban at all. It's a striking work, scored for strings alone, written to honor the loss of his

Album Tracks 1. Notturno Op. 33 (1978) 2. ÉVocations Op. 29 (1975) 3. Incantations Op. 35 (1980) 4. NR. 1 Songe 5. NR. 2 Masques 6. NR. 3 Terre de Feu 7. Pastourelle Op. 28 (1973) 8. 1. Allant 9. 2. Vif Et Extrãªmement Lã©Ger 10. 3. TRèS Lent 11. 4. Naã-F 12. 5. Allegro

Encores are works with strong expressive power. Here original music and own arrangements. At the age of 48, Hervé Joulain has already performed concerts of Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Strauss, Britten... In the year 2000 he made his debut in America and Canada with Strauss and Mozart with 110 different orchestras. The French hornist performed with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (1987-1997), with the Orchestre National de France (1997), and with the Orchestre de Paris under the direction of renowned conductors like Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Metha, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, Eliahu Inbal, Kurt Mazur, Charles Dutoit, Riccardo Muti, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado. Since December 2002 he has been the solo French hornist in the Symphonica Toscanini (Italy). Album Tracks 1. Ave Maria 2. Liebesleid N° 2 3. Après Un Rêve 4. Our Little Sister 5. The Swan 6. Tägen Letter 7. Death Thème 8. Adagio from the Third Symphony 9. Emmanuel 10. Valse Triste 11. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life 12. Rêverie 13. Luck & Leia 14. Arioso 15. Mickey Death Thème from Rocky Balboa 16. Vocalise 17. Dolci Pianti 18. Not a Day Goes By 19. Air on a G String 20. It's Still Our Dream 21. Princes Leia