Canciones

Catalonian composer Xavier Montsalvatge began violin lessons at the age of nine, around the same time as his father's death and his move to Barcelona to live with his grandfather. This move later allowed him to attend the Barcelona Conservatory and numerous concerts that greatly influenced him. His teachers at the conservatory were Francisco Costa for violin and Enrique Morera and Jaume Pahissa for composition. He himself became a teacher at the school in 1933. His first important works were the 1934 Tres impromptus for piano, for which he won the Rabell prize from the Patxot Foundation, and the Suite burlesca, for which he won the Pedrell prize in 1936. Rejecting the legacies of Wagner and Richard Strauss that dominated in Spain ……..

All Music Guide

"Proyecto Mandala" surge como una plataforma de diversos formatos que unifican en ese nombre lo referido al proceso creativo de Máximo Rodríguez en los últimos años.
El tercer formato es "Proyecto Mandala Canciones". En los últimos tiempos se compusieron algunas canciones sobre poesías de Tobías Schleider, y después Máximo volvió a escribir algunas letras que musicalizó. Una de las primera canciones "La casa de Pablo", está inspirada en Isla Negra, una de las casas que tenia Pablo Neruda a orillas del Pacifico). Compuesta con Laura Hambra e interpretada por Laura Albarracin en voz, y Alejandro Manzoni en piano.

A deeply seductive album of Spanish songs by composers including Granados and Turina, performed by the young Spanish soprano Sylvia Schwartz, whose commitment to this repertoire is described above, and is evident from her utterly enchanting performances.