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Jordi Savall - Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga - L'Œuvre orchestrale - Orchestral Works (1995) {Astrée Auvidis E 8532}
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© 1995 Astrée Auvidis | E 8532
Classical / Viennese School / Orchestral / Symphony

Born in Bilbao, Arriaga was a violinist and composer named in his time the Spanish Mozart. At 9, he was already composing his first quartet. Sent to Paris at the age of 17 by his father organist training, he will have the best teachers of violin and harmony. A brilliant student, he composed many works before tuberculosis prevailed at 19. It was in Paris that he composed this Symphonie à Grand Orchester en Ré, an astonishing and very classical work that was only performed for the first time in 1888. The present recording of the original version is a world first that the Concert of Nations led by Jordi Savall offers us brilliantly.

Composers with the technical ability, application, mental concentration and sheer physical strength to compose a symphony do not usually leave it at that unless circumstances prevent them from writing a second. Often these unfavourable circumstances centre round public and professional apathy, poor presentation of their efforts, bad reviews, or a combination of these factors. In both cases under consideration here, it was the tragedy of early death that interrupted highly promising careers that might well have witnessed a whole succession of fine symphonies. Jan Václav Voríšek was only thirty-four (a year younger than Mozart) when death claimed him, and Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (to give him his full name) died just ten days short of his twentieth birthday.