Luis de Pablo

Luis de Pablo - Las Orillas & Dvořák - Symphony No.8 (1991)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 273 Mb
Label: col legno - Date: 1991

Luis de Pablo (born 28 January 1930) is a Spanish composer.He was born in Bilbao, living in Madrid from age six and starting to compose aged 12. Although he received composition lessons from Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he was essentially an autodidact in composition. His participation at the Darmstadt courses in 1959 led to the performance of some of his works under Boulez and Maderna…

It is good news that this unique work is now available on CD. It is, in many ways, of its time; the late '70s. It should appeal both to World Music devotees and to people who have enjoyed such music as Stockhausen's 1968 STIMMUNG (TUNING) for 6 vocalists and sound projection. The notes are very comprehensive; Luis de Pablo characterises his Poem of Wood as "a long meditation with no sense of direction"; the conductor describes it as one of de Pablo's masterpieces, "a calm, reflective journey through the Basque landscape". This 1992 studio recording made in Madrid is a great success.

Innovative, whimsical, lyrical, and leader of Spanish contemporary school, Luis de Pablo is one of the major figures in living music. Awarded countless prizes, international commissions and solo programs, his work gradually detached itself from any and all influences, finding in the use of non-European musical traditions an original source of inspiration. The eclectic composer wrote : “The birth of this CD (and the collaboration between the NEM and I ranks among my best experiences of the last few years.[…] I also witnessed several of my works ……..

In 1968, in the entry for the “ Dictionary of Contemporary Music “ (Ed. Larousse), Claude Rostand wrote: "Luis de Pablo is not only the leading figure of the Spanish contemporary school as well as one of the first composers who have carried Spanish music outside the borders of its strict nationalism, giving it a universal intonation, but he also is one of the most prominent figures in the international music panorama, thanks to the impulse that he has given to innovative techniques, and above all, thanks to the original solutions that he has created in order to express an exceptionally inventive and poetic temperament. In this research, indeed, the man always stands behind his music, as a presence which is natural and dear to him".

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati - Cathédrale - Giovanna Reitano (2004)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 154 Mb
Label: col legno - Date: 2004

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (27 February, 1919, in Kraków – 3 March, 1994, in Vienna) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna…