El estudio sobre la cortesía ha crecido considerablemente en los últimos años, aunque no tengamos aún una descripción completa de su sistema verbal, algo fundamental para la enseñanza del español como E/LE. Esta “gramática de la cortesía” se ofrece como un muestrario de opciones expresivas para la relación social, describiendo sus claves de empleo y las variaciones que el contexto comunicativo en sentido general (participantes, sociedad, historia, cultura, etc.) opera sobre ellas. …
Un método práctico y sencillo para comunicarse en vacaciones, viajes de negocios o desplazamientos a través del mundo. Incluye una sección dedicada a la pronunciación y unas nociones básicas de gramática, bloques temáticos centrados en situaciones típicas en los viajes: …
Ambroisie presents a new edition of one of Handel's Italian period masterpieces, Rodrigo, with an exceptional cast led by Maria Riccarda Wesserling in the title role, María Bayo as his wife Esilena, Sharon Rostorf-Zamir as his young lover Florinda and Max Emanuel Cencic as Fernando. Following Amadigi di Gaula earlier this year, Rodrigo is the second Handel opera on the label conducted by Eduardo López Banzo. The release follows a European tour with the same cast and orchestra, Al Ayre Español, resulting in an interpretation that will undoubtedly lead to a new understanding of the piece almost exactly 300 years after it was written.
Prolific saxophonist, composer, and arranger David Murray has made a number of tribute recordings during his career to jazz luminaries such as Albert Ayler and Don Pullen, among others. Nat King Cole may seem an unlikely choice initially, and it might never have happened if Murray had not been recording at Cuba's Studio Egrem and saw a photograph of Cole with Armando Romeu from a pre-revolution session. Cole recorded a pair of Latin-inspired records, Cole Español and More Cole Español, in 1958 and 1962 respectively - one in Spanish and one in Portuguese (the singer spoke neither but learned standards and folk songs phonetically). The audiences these albums were directed at were already Cole fans, and while they weren't very good, they thought them amusing and flattering. Murray draws from these records here…