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Arriola: Orchestral Music
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Arriola: Orchestral Music

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Composer
ARRIOLA, JOSE
Artist
Real Filharmonia De Galicia, Zumalave
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Sep 13, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95797
UPC
5028421957975

About

These are the first-ever recordings of music composed by José (Pepito) Arriola, whose works are virtually unknown. Born in Betanzos in the northern Spanish region of Galicia in 1895, Arriola was a celebrated child prodigy known at the time as a 'Galician Mozart', who dazzled audiences across Europe and American with his piano-playing. Most of Arriola's work was lost when his home in Berlin was destroyed during the Second World War. The manuscripts for the three concertos and two song-cycles presented here were discovered just a few years ago, and mysteriously vanished almost as soon as they had been photocopied for dissemination. They were composed in the final decade of Arriola's life: in 1946 he settled in Barcelona, where he lived quietly until his death in 1954. Arriola's music belongs to the second golden age of Spanish music, that of Albéniz, Granados, Turina and Falla (and, a little later, Joaquín Rodrigo), flavoured by nationalism and the rich Spanish folk tradition, along with a verismo that concerned itself with the ordinary people of Spain and their suffering (as mirrored in Carmen, or Candela in El amor brujo). Yet in common with other post-Romantic composers, Arriola sought out a world of vanished beauty, experimenting with color, texture, unusual tonal combinations and harmony full of color, sensuality and emotion. As a student in Leipzig, Arriola had been taught by Richard Strauss, and his teacher's influence may be heard to positive effect in both the soaring vocal lines of the Tres textos cervantinos and the transplanted Classical idiom of the Horn Concerto. The piano-writing in the Concertino and Divertimento concertante is more compact and Stravinskian, while two songs from the cycle of Seis poesías de Antonio Machado disclose yet another, more impassioned facet of Arriola's style.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro ma non troppo 09:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    09:53
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Joaquín Soriano
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  2. 2 II. Largo 09:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    09:48
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Joaquín Soriano
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  3. 3 III. Allegretto 06:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegretto
    Duration
    06:22
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Joaquín Soriano
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  4. 4 I. Allegro ritmico - Vivo e scherzando - Moderato appassionato 20:13
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro ritmico - Vivo e scherzando - Moderato appassionato
    Duration
    20:13
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Luis del Valle, Victor del Valle
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  5. 5 II. Lento 06:31
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Lento
    Duration
    06:31
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Luis del Valle, Victor del Valle
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  6. 6 III. Presto 06:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Luis del Valle, Victor del Valle
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  7. 7 La aurora asomaba 04:32
    Track
    7
    Title
    La aurora asomaba
    Duration
    04:32
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Javier Franco
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  8. 8 La primavera besaba 03:10
    Track
    8
    Title
    La primavera besaba
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Javier Franco
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  9. 9 Epílogo 01:06
    Track
    9
    Title
    Epílogo
    Duration
    01:06
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  10. 10 No. 1. Aquí lloró Don Quijote 08:42
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 1. Aquí lloró Don Quijote
    Duration
    08:42
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Ainhoa Zubillaga, Francisco Santiago
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  11. 11 No. 2. Mal me guardareis 04:29
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 2. Mal me guardareis
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Carmen Durán
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  12. 12 No. 3. Marinero soy de amor 04:38
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 3. Marinero soy de amor
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    Francisco Santiago
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  13. 13 I. Deciso 13:06
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Deciso
    Duration
    13:06
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    David Alonso
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  14. 14 II. Andante calmo 10:19
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Andante calmo
    Duration
    10:19
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    David Alonso
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave
  15. 15 III. Allro ma non troppo 06:33
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Allro ma non troppo
    Duration
    06:33
    Composer
    Pepito Arriola
    Performer
    David Alonso
    Ensemble
    Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    Conductor
    Maximino Zumalave