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BEETHOVEN, L. van: König Stephan / Leonore Prohaska (excerpts) (The Key Ensemble, Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis, Turku Philharmonic, Segerstam)
Aside from his only opera Fidelio, Beethoven’s general link with the theatre in Vienna came about largely with incidental music or songs to be inserted into the works of other composers—insertion arias. König Stephan was written to celebrate the politically significant opening of a new theatre in Pest, its triumphant mood honouring the ruling Austrian Emperor. Standard-bearer of female heroism Leonore Prohaska is commemorated with a Soldier’s Chorus and a Romance with harp accompaniment. In Friedrich von Matthisson’s poem Opferlied (‘Sacrificial Song’), a young man prays to Zeus to bestow upon him beauty and goodness in youth and old age. Two of Beethoven’s four settings are heard on this wide-ranging programme.
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.
