Books 2020

A world renowned international soloist and harpsichord teacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Francesco Corti embarks a collaboration with Arcana with a musical journey through the manuscripts of the Bach family, beginning with the two books belonging to Johann Sebastian’s brother (the Möller and Andreas Bach manuscripts) and leading to the famous Büchleine for Anna Magdalena and Wilhelm Friedemann. The programme presents three major keyboard works by J. S. Bach (BWV 815, 992 and 998) that are preserved in ‘domestic’ copies. Combined with works by the most important musical figures in Bach’s musical life: Böhm, one of his teachers; Kuhnau, his predecessor as Thomaskantor; Telemann, friend and godfather to Bach’s second son Carl Philipp Emanuel; Hasse and François Couperin. The resulting programme is an unconventional Bachian harpsichord recital, a mixture of different genres and composers, that is probably much closer to the ‘home concert’ of the period than to the standard modern recital.

Valeria Stoppa trabaja en una residencia de enfermos de Alzhéimer en Roma. Les da de comer, les cuenta historias y atiende a aquellos que van perdiendo poco a poco su memoria.

When a double volume featuring Ivan Moravec was included in the 1999 Great pianists of the 20th Century box set (Philips Records), many a music lover was taken aback. Although Americans knew the Czech artist, owing mainly to the Connoisseur Society, a lot of European listeners and critics had overlooked him yet the recordings contained in the edition certainly attested to Moravec being a pianist of global calibre. Repertoire magazine referred to him as the most closely guarded secret of the classical music world. The 90th anniversary of Ivan Moravecs birth is a very good reason to for come up with a special project. The most complete collection of his recordings to date, the present Supraphon release encompasses 11 albums and a documentary and unique, previously unseen footage from the Czech Television archives. Moravec recorded his core repertoire for the Connoisseur Society, Supraphon, Dorian, Nonesuch and Vox labels. Some of his recordings are now being released on album for the first time. A number of older recordings have been remastered from the original analogue tapes. The set includes the complete Moravec repertoire of Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy, solo Franck, Janácek and Chopins Mazurkas. The booklet provides an exhaustive account of one of the greatest 20th-century pianists artistic development, from the early 1960s to the end of the millennium. Most significantly, the release affords the listener the opportunity to revel in the music that due to its sheer profundity, myriad colour shades and irresistibly personal delivery touches ones very heart. A portrait of a great artist.

Texto promocional de la editorial: Las memorias gráficas del gran maestro de la historieta Latinoamericana (1947-2020)
Juan Padrón, el mítico creador de Elpidio Valdés y Vampiros en la Habana, empezó en 2017 a dibujar su vida, atravesada por el siglo XX: la llegada a Cuba de sus antepasados españoles, el imperialismo de EE.UU., la Revolución, los estragos de la Guerra Fría, el paraguas de la Unión Soviética# Componen su relato una gran variedad de historias familiares y personales que tejen a su vez una Historia en mayúscula, individual y colectiva. En todas ellas destaca su testimonio sincero, al tiempo que nos cuenta cómo desarrolló su pasión por el dibujo en una profesión en el que, probablemente, sea el país más imprevisible de Latinoamérica.