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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Ruinen von Athen (Die) (The Ruins of Athens) (Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis, Turku Philharmonic, Segerstam)
Die Ruinen von Athen (‘The Ruins of Athens’) was composed to celebrate the opening of the new German theatre in Pest in 1812. Designed to accompany the play of that name by August von Kotzebue, its incidental music is substantial enough to form a kind of one-act Singspiel and is full of attractive arias, duets and choruses and includes the famous Turkish March. Though the work’s theme was rooted in Greek mythology, in reality it was explicitly political in nature, celebrating Pest as ‘the new Athens’. This is the first ever recording of the work with full narration.
Tracklist
|  | 1 | Danza Brasilera | 02:36 |
| | 2 | Milonga del Viento | 03:30 |
| | 3 | Danza in E Minor | 03:45 |
| | 4 | Otro Tango, Buenos Aires | 04:31 |
| | 5 | Prelude | 03:09 |
| | 6 | Celil's Dance | 03:48 |
| | 7 | I. Allegretto | 05:06 |
| | 8 | II. Andante espressivo | 03:49 |
| | 9 | III. Allegro | 02:57 |
| | 10 | Romance Criollo | 04:30 |
| | 11 | Homage to Latin Music, Salsa | 08:42 |
| | 12 | Little Rhapsody | 05:27 |
| | 13 | Pampero | 02:55 |
| | 14 | A Mi Barrio | 03:28 |
| | 15 | Giga Criolla | 04:17 |
Morel, Jorge - Arranger
| | 16 | Misionera (arr. J. Morel for guitar) | 02:46 |
Since his concert debut at the age of six, Turkish American guitarist and composer Celil Refik Kaya has received many high accolades. He was the youngest contestant to win First Prize in the 2012 JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, and is a prizewinner of international guitar competitions across Europe and the US. In 2017 he was named Rising Young Musician of the Year by the Donizetti Classical Music Awards in Istanbul and awarded a prestigious fellowship from Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks.
Kaya has performed in concert halls and festivals, giving solo performances at Carnegie Hall, Raritan River Music Festival and Ankara International Music Festival among others, and numerous radio broadcasts and concert performances throughout the US and Turkey.
His first recording, Morel: Guitar Music (Naxos 8.573514) was critically acclaimed by American Record Guide, and he has also recorded for Naxos works by Carlo Domeniconi and Agustin Barrios Mangore.
Dr Celil Refik Kaya is currently the coordinator of guitar studies and teaching at the New Jersey City University.
For more information, visit www.celilrefikkaya.com.
The Argentinian musician Fernando Bustamente is well known, by name at least, for his popular song Misionera, its title derived from a region of Latin America that extends between Paraguay and Brazil. The song has been variously arranged, but is best known as part of the guitar repertoire.
The popular and prolific Argentine-American guitarist-composer Jorge Morel (b. 1931) began his guitar studies in Buenos Aires with his father, a famous actor. After further studies with Amparo Alvariza and the virtuoso Pablo Escobar, Morel emigrated to New York in 1961. A Choro (literally “weeping”) is a popular Brazilian dance, originally performed by musicians called choroes. Morel also arranged for guitar the popular song Misionera by the Argentinian Fernando Bustamante.
