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CASABLANCAS, B.: Piano Trios (B3:Brouwer Trio)
Widely performed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Benet Casablancas is regarded as one of the leading Spanish composers of his generation. His music engages profoundly with the legacy of the first half of the 20th century, combining a refined and personal harmonic palette with a sharp attention to textural detail and a strong sense of dramatic and narrative form. The works in this world première recording span almost forty years of Casablancas’s output, from an early tribute to Mompou in Dos Apunts, to his recent musical expression of Japanese verse in the two sets of Tres Haikus.
Tracklist
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
|  | 1 | Sinfonia degli eroi (Symphony of Heroes) | 17:56 |
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
| | 2 | Ditirambo tragico (Tragic Dithyramb) | 08:04 |
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
| | 3 | Armenia | 04:30 |
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
| | 4 | Grottesco (Grotesque) | 08:02 |
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
| | 5 | Dai sepolcri (From Tombs) | 18:31 |
Closel, Amaury du (Conductor)
The Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (TSSO) is one of the major cultural organisations in Greece, and the most historic symphonic ensemble in Northern Greece. Founded in 1959 by the Greek-Cypriot composer Solon Michaelides, it currently comprises 118 musicians.
The TSSO honours its role as a public organisation by creating music at the highest level in an accessible way. Its range of activities includes collaborations with highly acclaimed Greek and international artists, the dissemination of Greek musical works, and the implementation of various educational and social projects.
The TSSO is Greece’s most notable symphonic ensemble on disc, regularly recording for internationally renowned labels such as EMI, BIS and Naxos, with releases garnering much recognition and laudatory reviews as well as various international prizes. Musical collaborations abroad have included successful concerts in Berlin, Munich, Beijing, Prague, Valencia and Florence, among others.
Amaury du Closel studied composition with Max Deutsch and conducting with Alexandre Myrat. He has collaborated with numerous orchestras in London and Warsaw (Polish Radio and Television), at the Festival de Menton (Sinfonia Varsovia), in Greece (La Kamerata), in Suwon, Korea, and in Qatar, as well as with the Nürnberger Symphoniker, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the North Czech Philharmonic in Teplice, the Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV. He is currently guest conductor of several orchestras in Italy, Germany, Romania and Bulgaria, music director of Opéra Nomade, a French nationwide opera touring company, and is also artistic director of the Silenced Voices Festival in Strasbourg. In 2005 he published a prizewinning book about European composers who were victims of the Nazi regime. Since 2003 he has revived numerous works of these composers in the concert series Forum Voix Etouffées, throughout Europe. He has recorded with the Nürnberger Symphoniker for Deutsche Grammophon and Sony.
The Italian composer and musicologist Gian Francesco Malipiero is well-known for his comprehensive editions of the music of Monteverdi and Vivaldi. Prolific as a composer, he also provided arrangements and transcriptions of works by earlier Italian composers.
Stage Works
Malipiero wrote a large number of operas and a smaller number of ballet scores. The former explored forms of particular originality while changing with his developing personal style of writing.
Orchestral and Vocal Music
Orchestral music by Malipiero includes a series of symphonies of varied and original content, many of them distinguished by explanatory or allusive titles. Concertos by Malipiero include six for the piano.
