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The Spanish Hour 2419: Argentina: More Than Just Tango
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
The tango may be Argentina's best-known musical export, but it's far from the only musical expression to be discovered. On this edition of The Spanish Hour, we explore the rich and varied classical music of Argentina. And, yes, we'll include the tango!
The international success of the Argentine tango may have eclipsed the variety of Argentina’s classical music. This week we bring you works for guitar, orchestra, and chorus by Carlos Guastavino, Alberto Ginastera, and Astor Piazzolla: “El rey del tango.”
The Spanish Hour 2420: Guitar Potpourri
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A guitar potpourri, featuring works from Latin America and Spain by Joaquín Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, and Antonio Lauro.
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Pepe Romero, Corona Guitar Quartet, and Alfonso Morena are featured in works for solo guitar, four guitars, and guitar with orchestra. It’s a guitar potpourri, featuring works from Latin America and Spain by Joaquín Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, and Antonio Lauro
The Spanish Hour 2418: Extraordinary Women Musicians
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:31
Female greats of classical music, featuring Venezuelan virtuoso pianist and composer Teresa Carreño, Catalan mezzo Conchita Supervía, and Spanish-Mexican composer Maria Teresa Prieto. With historical recordings, including a 1905 piano roll made by Teresa Carreño performing one of her many piano miniatures.
The Spanish Hour celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a spotlight by the las madres trabajadores -- working moms; latinas y españolas and citizens of the world: Venezuelan virtuoso pianist and composer Teresa Carreño, world-renowned Spanish mezzo-soprano Conchita Supervía, and Spanish composer in exile in Mexico Maria Teresa Prieto.
The Spanish Hour 2421: Profile: Francisco Tárrega
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
On this edition of The Spanish Hour, we explore the genius of the composer known as the “Sarasate of the guitar.” Francisco Tárrega’s works are challenging to play and inspiring to hear, especially as performed by Julian Bream, Narciso Yepes, and Slava Grigoryan
Slava Girigoryan, Julian Bream, Narciso Yepes, and Pepe Romero interpret some of Tárrega's well-known and best-loved masterworks for the guitar.
The Spanish Hour 2422: Music for Two Guitars
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Chopin wrote that the only thing more beautiful than one guitar is two guitars. On today’s show, we prove him right.
The Spanish Hour 2423: Songs of Spain
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Spanish art songs inspired by Spanish folk songs. Adaptations, arrangements, and inspirations of Spanish songs from the 15th - 21st centuries.
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The Spanish Hour 2424: Spanish Guitar Classics
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Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. Joaquín Rodrigo believed this to be the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. Works by Albéniz plus Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez on this week's show.
Works by Rodrigo, Albéniz, and Granados inspired by Spain’s many regional dances.Of the works for guitar solo, guitar duo and guitar with orchestra on this week’s program, only one was written specifically for the guitar. We’ll hear Julian Bream, Rupert Boyd, and the Heinrich-Albert Duo perform Albéniz, Granados, and Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.
The Spanish Hour 2425: Enfoque: Jorge Morel
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This week, we focus on Argentine guitarist and composer Jorge Morel, with recordings of his works performed by David Starobin, David Russell, Hilary Field, and Maestro Morel himself.
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Our focus this week is on the life and artistry of Argentine-born guitarist and composer Jorge Morel, with recordings of his works performed by David Starobin, David Russell, Hilary Field, and Maestro Morel himself.
The Spanish Hour 2426: Enfoque: Tenor Alfredo Kraus
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
The great Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus in zarzuela and song.
Born in the Canary Islands in 1927, Alfredo Kraus Trujillo was widely regarded as the greatest tenor of his generation. Candice Agree presents Alfredo Kraus in selections from zarzuelas by Bretón and Fernández, as well as a song cycle by Joaquín Turina.
The Spanish Hour 2427: Enfoque: Manuel María Ponce
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:31
On this edition of "The Spanish Hour," Mexico’s finest artists are among those heard in this celebration of the genius of Mexico’s Manuel Ponce. Enjoy solo works for piano and guitar, as well as the acclaimed "Concierto del Sur."
Manuel María Ponce was one of the great geniuses of Mexican music. An avid musicologist, Ponce used his vast collection of traditional Mexican folksongs in his romantic works, a synthesis he thought crucial for his country’s cultural evolution. Featured are the 24 guitar preludes, romantic pieces for piano, as well as Concierto del Sur, perhaps his best-known work.
The Spanish Hour 2428: Enfoque: Xavier Montsalvatge
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
A tribute to the 20th-century Catalan composer, author, and music critic Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002), one of the so-called “Lost Generation” of Spain’s composers. We’ll sample a few of his most emblematic works.
One of the so-called "Lost Generation" of Spanish composers, first gaining wide-spread recognition in the 1940s, pianist, critic, and composer Xavier Montsalvatge was influenced by antillanismo, neo-Romanticism, and French impressionism, especially Ravel. This edition of The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree features his most famous work, 5 canciones negras, plus works for string quartet, piano, as well as selections from the opera El gat amb botes/El gato con botas (Puss in Boots.)
The Spanish Hour 2429: Enfoque: Fernando Sor
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:31
In the 19th century, the guitar was still thought of as something heard at village fairs, an easy to strum instrument, meant for nothing more than to accompany popular songs, not a solo instrument to be applauded in the concert hall. Fernando Sor changed all that by creating a virtuosic repertory for the guitar that earned him the sobriquet "The Beethoven of the Guitar." We'll hear guitar solos, duets, and songs for voice and guitar, performed by Segovia, Starobin, and others.
The guitar in the 19th century had not yet achieved its rightful status as an expressive and legitimate concert instrument. Known as “The Beethoven of the Guitar,” Fernando Sor was the guitarist and composer who changed that perception. We’ll hear some of Sor’s virtuosic works for guitar solo, guitar duo, and voice and guitar, including performances by Andrés Segovia.
The Spanish Hour 2430: Enfoque: Spain's Modern Masters
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Musical colors of Spain by Spain's modern Masters
Chamber works for string quartet, piano quintet and guitar solo by Spanish composers of the 20th and 21rst centuries: Joquín Turina, José Evangelista, and José Luis Greco.
The Spanish Hour 2430: Enfoque: Spain's Modern Masters
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
Musical colors of Spain by Spain's modern Masters
Chamber works for string quartet, piano quintet and guitar solo by Spanish composers of the 20th and 21rst centuries: Joquín Turina, José Evangelista, and José Luis Greco.
The Spanish Hour 2431: Ocultos a plena vista: Julián Orbón y Joan Manén
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Almost unknown gems by Cuba's Julián Orbón and Catalonia's Joan Manén.
This edition of The Spanish Hour features works by two composers “ocultos a plena vista;” that is, hidden in plain sight: Concerto grosso, written in 1958 by Spanish-born Cuban composer Julián Orbón, and Concierto Espagnol for violin and orchestra, dedicated to Fritz Kreisler, written in 1923 by Barcelona native Joan Manén.
The Spanish Hour 2433: Spanish Violin Romances
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
An array of some of the great Spanish works written for violin in the second half of the nineteenth century. Works by Sarasate, Monasterio, and Fernández Arbós.
Romantic violin show-stoppers from the late 19th-century, a golden age for the Spanish virtuoso perfomer-composer. Classics of the Romantic Spanish violin: Sarasate's Zapateado and Carmen Fantasy, Monasterio's Grand Fantasy for violin and piano, based on well-known Spanish folk tunes, and three concert pieces for violin and orchestra by Enrique Fernández Arbós. With GIl Shaham, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Manuel Guillén, Ara Malikian, and Jesús Lopez Cobos.
The Spanish Hour 2434: Treasures from Mediæval and Renaissance Spain
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From the Five Kingdoms of 13th-century Spain to the polyphony of Spanish Renaissance master Tomás Luis de Victoria, this week’s program explores Spain’s vocal music from the 13th -18th centuries.
Roman, Germanic, Byzantine, French, Arabic, and Jewish cultures all contributed to Spanish music. This week, a program of vocal music from Spain from the 13th-17th centuries: settings of secular and sacred texts by Tomás Luis de Victoria and Mateo Flecha the Elder, plus anonymous Sephardic and Navarrese love songs, reflecting the mix of cultures throughout the Five Kingdoms of Spain.
The Spanish Hour 2436: Enfoque:: Arriaga, “The Spanish Mozart”
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
Spain's Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga was born 50 years to the day after the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like Mozart, Arriaga was a prodigy who died quite young. Unlike Mozart, Arriaga was only 19 at the time of his death. Featuring Overture to Los Esclavos felices , the cantata Herminie with Basque soprano Ainhoa Arteta, and Symphony in D.
Born in the Basque city of Bilbao, Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga shared not only a January 27th date of birth with Mozart, but life as a child prodigy and early demise. We’ll hear some of the remarkable works written by Arriaga before his premature and tragic death at the age of 19.