Arriaga: Overtures, Herminie & Other Works

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Chandos
Release Date
February 1, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ARRIAGA, JAUN CRISOSTOMO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Philharmonic
    • PERFORMER
      Solset, Mena
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 01, 2019
    • UPC
      095115207727
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20077
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Los esclavos felices: Overture (2nd version)

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    2. Recitative: Le jour frappe mes yeux

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Berit Norbakken Solset

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    3. Aria: Longtemps, hélas!

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Berit Norbakken Solset

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    4. Recitative: Mais sur cette arène guerrière

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Berit Norbakken Solset

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    5. Aria: Il n'est plus … Dieux cruels!

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Berit Norbakken Solset

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    6. Recitative: Se peut-il!

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Berit Norbakken Solset

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    7. Aria: Tancrède me devra le jour

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Berit Norbakken Solset

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    8. Overture, Op. 20

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    9. Médée: Hymen, viens dissiper une vaine frayeur

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Berit Norbakken Solset

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    10. I. Adagio - Allegro vivace

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    11. II. Andante

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    12. III. Minuetto

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    13. IV. Allegro con moto

      Composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena


Spanish music specialist and former Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Juanjo Mena continues the series La Música de España, which has seen the recording of some of the orchestral works of de Falla, Turina and Albéniz, with another important Spanish composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, nicknamed after his death as ‘the Spanish Mozart’.The orchestral overture to ‘Los esclavos felices’ (The Happy Slaves) is all that remains of the opera the child prodigy Arriaga wrote aged 14. When Arriaga moved to Paris to study under Fétis, Guérin and Baillot in 1821, he revised the overture, making changes to the instrumentation and removing a third theme group. It is the revised version heard on this recording. Air from Médée and Herminie form parts of the autograph volume ‘Ensayos lírico-dramáticos’ (Lyric-dramatic essays) that completes this release, here sung by one of Scandinavia’s most sought after concert singers, Berit Norbakken Solset. Tonally ambiguous Symphony in D minor (which begins and ends in D major) alongside the Overture in D major, which was written ‘without having learnt the principles of harmony’ are proof that Arriaga’s premature death aged 19 was a ‘sad loss to Basque music’.