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Concerto in Brazilian Forms
Isaac Albéniz, Hekel Tavares

Felicja Blumental, London Symph. &

Concerto in Brazilian Forms

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Format: CD
Label: Brana Records
UPC: 5035030121123
Catnr: BR 0002
Release date: 01 December 2008
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Brana Records
UPC
5035030121123
Catalogue number
BR 0002
Release date
01 December 2008
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About the album

This album presents a rare recording of Hekel Tavares’ Concerto in Brazilian Forms, Isaac Albeniz’s vibrantly percussive Spanish Rhapsody, Op. 70 and ambitious Piano Concerto No. 1 (Concierto fantastico), Op. 78. Hekel Tavares (1896 – 1969) was the son of a wealthly plantation owner and lived close to the land and people of Brazil. He cared more for the evocation of the spirit of national folksong and dance than with their use as melodic material.

Tavares wrote some 100 songs of which Casa de caboclo (published in 1928) was his biggest success.

Between 1949 and 1953 Tavares travelled throughout Brazil collecting folk material for use in his own works. This research found expression in works such as his tone poem O Anhanguera which calls for Tucuna Indian percussion instruments.

Hekel Tavares: Concerto in Brazilian Forms for piano and orchestra
The Concerto in Brazilian Forms for Piano and Orchestra is a brilliant, evocative, richly coloured and full-blooded work. The juxtaposition of elemental, sometimes barbaric, rhythms and long, expressive melodic paragraphs gives the concerto a spice and piquancy of the sort that could only grow out of its own particular background

The musical skill and mature imagination of Hekel Tavares weld the different ingredients into a thoroughly convincing whole.

Isaac Albeniz
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) was born in Spain and at the tender age of nine ran away from home to Puerto Rico. For the next few years he toured Central America and the Western United States and settled briefly in England before studying in Brussels and Budapest.

At the age of thirty-three he retired as a concert performer. This was made possible by the patronage of Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, heir to the banking fortune of Coutts & Co. He devoted himself to revealing the rich resources of the music of his native country through composition.

Forming close ties with Paul Dukas and Gabriel Faure, Albeniz became a cherished member of the French musical community. In his masterpiece, Iberia, he created a source of inspiration the Spanish composers who followed him, as well as for Debussy and Ravel.

Isaac Albeniz: Spanish Rhapsody Op 70
Written in 1895 as an orchestral composition, the Spanish Rhapsody was later rescored by Albeniz for solo piano and orchestra and has become known as the second piano concerto. It is also popular as a piece for solo piano.

As in much of Albeniz’ piano writing, the solo instrument is called on to reproduce percussive rhythmic effects which suggest guitars and castanets.

Isaac Albeniz: Piano Concerto No 1 (Concierto fantastico) Op 70
Albeniz’ first piano concerto, Concierto fantastico is certainly one of his most ambitious projects and perhaps one of his finest achievements. Described as ‘Chopinesque’, it was written in 1886 and is in 3 movements Allegro ma non troppo, Reverie e Scherzo and Allegro.

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London Symphony Orchestra

Formed in 1904 by a group of 46 musicians who had resigned from London's Queen's Hall Orchestra because of change in policy, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is an ensemble of 'firsts.' It was the first orchestra in England to set up a self-governing administrative structure, the first to tour North America, and the first to accept commercial sponsorship. Known as one of England's most gifted and versatile ensembles, it is the resident orchestra at London's famous Barbican Centre. This and the fact that the LSO tours extensively; has provided music for countless films, radio broadcasts, and television productions; and records prolifically has helped to consolidate the group's reputation as one of the world's leading orchestras.  During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, London...
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Formed in 1904 by a group of 46 musicians who had resigned from London's Queen's Hall Orchestra because of change in policy, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is an ensemble of "firsts." It was the first orchestra in England to set up a self-governing administrative structure, the first to tour North America, and the first to accept commercial sponsorship. Known as one of England's most gifted and versatile ensembles, it is the resident orchestra at London's famous Barbican Centre. This and the fact that the LSO tours extensively; has provided music for countless films, radio broadcasts, and television productions; and records prolifically has helped to consolidate the group's reputation as one of the world's leading orchestras.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, London musicians worked on a strictly freelance basis, finding work where they could for the highest possible fee. In 1904, Henry Wood, conductor of the Queen's Hall Orchestra, decided that he could no longer tolerate the chaos of the situation and hired players as full-time employees with a small but guaranteed wage for about 100 scheduled performances a year. Many of the best musicians, who were in great demand and who stood to lose a significant portion of their earnings through this restriction, resigned from Wood's ensemble and formed their own, self-governing orchestra.

Soon after its creation, the LSO invited Hans Richter to be its first conductor. He accepted the position on the condition that the orchestra increase its number to at least 100 players. Although Richter conducted a great many of the orchestra's concerts during his eight-year tenure, the group also attracted numerous other distinguished conductors to the podium. These included Nikisch, Steinbach, and Elgar. In so doing, the LSO promoted the idea of guest conductors in English musical society.

Two years after its foundation, the orchestra played its first concerts outside England; two concerts in Paris. Under the direction of Nikisch in 1912, the LSO became the first British orchestra to tour North America, presenting 28 concerts in 21 days, beginning and ending with performances in New York's Carnegie Hall.

Over the next 50 years, the LSO was lead by a number of gifted and distinguished conductors including Sir Thomas Beecham, Albert Coates , Sir Hamilton Harty, Josef Krips, Pierre Monteux, Istvan Kertesz, André Previn, and Claudio Abbado. All of these men, in addition to the many guest conductors and artists invited to work with the LSO, left their marks on the orchestra; shaping and honing the virtuosity of its players into an ensemble of great sensitivity and versatility.

The orchestra's association with the film industry began in 1922 when Walter Wanger, head of United Artists, hired the LSO to play for the presentation of silent films at Covent Garden's Opera House. Since then, the ensemble has provided music for numerous films including the Star Wars series for which the LSO won a platinum disc.

The LSO's connection with the BBC goes back to 1924 when Ralph Vaughan Williams conducted the orchestra in the premiere broadcast performance of his Pastoral Symphony. The LSO was the unofficial orchestra in residence for the BBC until the formation of the BBC Symphony in 1930 and has continued to broadcast concerts and provide background music for many BBC productions.

When Michael Tilson Thomas replaced Abbado in 1987, he set about securing the organization's financial as well as musical future by encouraging the LSO to accept corporate sponsorship. Conducted by Sir Colin Davis from 1995 to 2006, who was succeeded by Valery Gergiev in 2007, the London Symphony Orchestra has long enjoyed its well-deserved reputation as a pioneer in several areas of British orchestral history and is a highly versatile and distinguished world-class ensemble.


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Anatole Fistoulari (conductor)

Alberto Zedda (conductor)

Luigi Toffolo (conductor)

Composer(s)

Isaac Albéniz

Isaac Albéniz was a prominent Spanish pianist and composer. Albéniz was born in Camprodón and was soon recognised as a child prodigy. As a six year old, he received piano lessons from Antoine François Marmontel. After which he attended the conservatory of Madrid and continued to give concerts as a prodigy until he was 15 years old. In 1876, he studied in Leipzig for two months, but left when he received a royal grant to study at the conservatory of Brussels. In 1879, he graduated with honours and did a succesful concert tour around Europe. He wished to study under Liszt, for which he traveled to Budapest. Unfortunately, his travels were in vain: Liszt had already moved to Weimar. 
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Isaac Albéniz was a prominent Spanish pianist and composer. Albéniz was born in Camprodón and was soon recognised as a child prodigy. As a six year old, he received piano lessons from Antoine François Marmontel. After which he attended the conservatory of Madrid and continued to give concerts as a prodigy until he was 15 years old.
In 1876, he studied in Leipzig for two months, but left when he received a royal grant to study at the conservatory of Brussels. In 1879, he graduated with honours and did a succesful concert tour around Europe. He wished to study under Liszt, for which he traveled to Budapest. Unfortunately, his travels were in vain: Liszt had already moved to Weimar.


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