Spanish Music

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Music of Antón Alcalde


Collected from varied public sources.  To the best of my knowledge, none of these have been offered for sale.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/brqyvcdddtwy9ec/Music_of_Alcalde.zip

Works:

1. Symphony No. 2, "La Lenda de Paio Gómez Chariño” 
Utah State University Wind Orchestra,
Thomas P. Rohrer conductor,
Spring 2014.

• 1. A Lenda (The Legend)
• 2. A Paisaxe (The Landscape)
• 3. A Battalla (The Battle)

2.  Dolmen
Banda de Música Popular de Rubios
Rafael Dopeso
V Galician Music Bands Contest. November 2011
Galicia Auditorium. Santiago de Compostela

• I. Alla alborada
• II. Alla balada
• III. Alla muiñeira

3.  Symphony 1, Marea Negra ("Black Tide")
Union Musical de Valladares
November, 2010

• I. Amencer nas Rías Baixas
• II. Prestige
• III. Marea Negra
• IV. Marea Branca

4. Portico
Banda las Nieves Olivares
Conductor:  Manuel Granado
2013


5. Suite Galacia
Banda Xiuvenil de Xinzo
Date, Venue unknown

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Music of Jose Alberto Pina


Collected from varied public sources.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/9d4oaqntjha7x7t/Music_of_Jose_Alberto_Pina.zip


Works:

1.  Sendes: Variations on the Life of a Mortal
Banda De Musica Popular de Rubios
Conductor Rafael Dopeso
November, 2011
Auditorio de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela

• • The Alma
• • Love
• • Confusion
• • Fear and Anger
• • The Conflagration
• • Despair
• • La Soledad
• • The Longing
• • The Hope

2.  Legend of the Maricaibo

Banda de música de Calasparra (Murcia)
Director: Julián Andreo Jiménez
Date, Venue unknown

3.  The Island of Light
Banda de Amarante. Portugal
Dir José Rafael Pascual Vilaplana
TV Broadcast, Date Unknown

• 1. Cova d’en Xoroi.
• 2. Sobre las Nubes.
• 3. Los Gigantes.

4. The Bermuda Triangle
Het Noord Nederlands Jeugd Orkest
May 13 2012
Dir: van Erik Janssen

• I. The Triangle, The Legend
• II. The Island of Eternal Love
• III. The End

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Music of Ferrer Ferran


Collect from various public sources.

Ferrer Ferran is not only a very prolific composer for symphonic band, but also one whose output ranges from the most audience-friendly to some very muscular work that flirts with the Avante Garde.  In particular, I can't stop listening to his 4th Symphony, the Colossus- it is on the same cosmic level of grandeur as Scriabin's later orchestral works, or the symphonies of Robert Simpson.  This mixes some interesting techniques (bowing a gong, chanting from the musicians), a lot of percussion, a string section only of cellos and basses, a pipe organ, and a wind machine-- there are some very hair raising climaxes in this work, and the end has the same type of primal howl that Scriabin realized at the end of Prometheus.  It also, unlike some of the other Spanish Symphonic band composers I've posted, really deserves to be called a symphony-- it has the architecture and lines one would expect.  Ferran really "owns" the sonorities of a symphonic band, and in this symphony you can hear how much energy one can create when a composer really decides to push the pedal to the floor.


Works:

Volume 1: Symphonies, etc. 
http://www.mediafire.com/download/kk0nk23v25vmpg8/Ferrer_Ferran_Symphonies.zip

Sinfonia 1- Tormenta del Desierto ("Desert Storm")
The Royal Windband St.Martinus Opgrimbie/Maasmechelen,Belgium
Directed by Stephen Walker
Maaspoort,Venlo,The Netherlands
October 2002

• I.- The Invation of Kuwait
• II.- Curfew
• III.- Advance of the Allied Troops
• IV.- Basra Battle

Sinfonia 2: LA PASSIO DE CRIST

La Banda de la Asociación Musical San Isidro de Armilla.
II Concierto de Temporada "Concierto de Navidad"
Teatro Municipal de Armilla. 15/12/2013.
Director: José Melchor Perelló Lavilla.

• I. - Birth. Sacrifice of the Innocents. Baptism. I. Nacimiento...
• II. - The Three Temptations.II. Las Tentaciones
• III. - Arrival to the Temple. Santa Cena. Capture. Judgment. Crucifixión. Hope.

Sinfonia 3: The Great Spirit
Banda de Música de Lalín. Certamen Internacional de Altea 2010.
Broadcast on Programa Nuestras Bandas de Música, director Octavio Hernández Bolín.
I. Gaudi
II.- Sagrada Familia



Sinfonia 4: "The Colossus"
Banda Sinfónica SIMON BOLIVAR
Ferrer Ferran, director.
Caracas (Venezuela), 2013.
I.- Oscuridad (Darknes).
II.- Duerme (Asleep).
III.- La Huida (The Flight).
IV.- El Gigante (The Giant).

Concert #3 for Symphonic Band
Banda Sinfónica Unión Musical de Liria (World Premiere)
Enrique Artiga, director
Palau de la Música de Valencia.
Certamen Internacional de Bandas de Música "Ciutat de Valencia",
July 21, 2013.



Volume 2: Tone Poems and Programmatic Works 
http://www.mediafire.com/download/crgq6g1pe7fom7p/Ferrer+Ferran+Tone+Poems.zip

EXPEDITION de Oscar Navarro
Banda Primitiva de Paiporta,
FERRER FERRAN, Director.
"Dia de la Música", Auditorio Municipal de Paiporta (Valencia- Spain)
October 26, 2013

O CAMIÑO DAS ANIMAS EN PENA
 "THE PATH OF THE DARK SOULS (Terrifying Poem for Symphonic Band)"
La Banda de Santa Ceciliar de Cullera
Dir. by Salvador Sebastia Lopez
Date, Venue Unknown

La Ciudad Sumergida "The Submerged City"
Associaçao Recreativa e Musical de Vilela (Portugal)
Jose Ricardo Freitas, director.
Date, Venue Unknown
(NOTE: The last few bars are missing.  I applied a fade to the last ten seconds

• Omen of the earthquake (presagios del seismo)
• The destruction of the city. Earthquake of 1692
• Final submersion (sumersión final)
• Prayer for the victims of the catastrophe
• "Port Royal", the new city (la nueva ciudad)

La Cuidad Supresa "The Suprise City"
Societa Filarmonica de Bussoleno (Italia),
Ferrer Ferran, Director.
Auditorio de Bussoleno, Italy
April 26, 2014


Abraham
La Banda de Música Federal de Navarra
Composer, Conductor
November 1, 2011


Abu Simbel
La Banda de Música Federal de Navarra
Dir by Composer
Teatro Municipal de Ansoain (Navarra)
November 1, 2011

Salamon Leyenda Africana
BandaLarga Valsusa
Dir: Danilo Trolton
Concerto di Solidarietà 2013 - Salone Polivalente Bussoleno (TO), Italy
April 14, 2013


JUNGLA, Poema Ambientado en la Selva Africana
Banda Sinfónica SIMON BOLIVAR,
Ferrer Ferran, director.
El Palau de la Música de Valencia (España)
July, 2013

Miticaventura
Union Musical de PonteLedesma.
Conductor: Roberto Hermida Rey
VI Galician Music Bands Contest.
Galicia Auditorium. Santiago de Compostela
November 2012
I. Iberia
II. Grecia
III. Roma
IV. Egipto

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David and Bathsheba by Carlos Surinach


From the collection of Karl Miller

http://www.mediafire.com/download/hk5t80755lku52k/001_David_and_Bathsheba_Surinach,_Carlos_Surinach-_David_and_Bathsheba_Spanish_20th_Century.zip

Lee Cass, narrator
CBS Symphony Orchestra
Alfredo Antonini, conductor
[15 May 1960]



Wikipedia Bio


Carlos Surinach (or Carles Suriñach)[1] i Wrokona (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkarɫəs suɾiˈɲak], Barcelona; Spain, March 4, 1915 - New Haven, Connecticut, United States, November 12, 1997) was a Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor.

He was born in Barcelona, where he held conducting posts at the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. He studied composition with Enrique Morera at the Barcelona Conservatory, then went to Germany, where he studied in Berlin with Max Trapp, and also with Richard Strauss, taking five of Strauss's seminars. In 1948 his opera El mozo que caso con mujer brava premiered in Barcelona. In 1951, he emigrated to the United States, where he became a successful composer for the dance. He became a U.S. citizen in 1959. He composed three ballet scores for the renowned choreographer Martha Graham: Embattled Garden (1958), Acrobats of God (1960) and The Owl and the Pussycat (1978). He also composed for the Joffrey Ballet (Feast of Ashes). His harp concerto was commissioned by Charles Royce for his daughter Maria. The premiere was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1978, with Nicanor Zabaleta playing. The concerto was then performed by maria Royce at Interlochen. The Surinach harp concerto added richly to the harp concerto repertoire; but, unfortunately, it has not been played since.

From the City University of New York:
Born in Barcelona, Spain on March 4th, 1915, Carlos Suriñach arrived in the U.S. in 1951, making his home for many years in New York City. Well known and admired throughout Europe as a first-class conductor, he possessed an almost photographic memory, which allowed him to conduct without a score. Feeling his temperament was more suited to composition, Suriñach continued to conduct, but only as a means to support his composing. Once in New York, Suriñach found his style of composition, based on tonality, out of step with the growing trend among American composers toward serialism, a style which had gained academic popularity in Europe and which Suriñach had hoped to evade in the U.S. Suriñach’s compositional style ran counter to what was being presented as “contemporary” in the concert hall; to put it plainly, his melodic re-imaginings of Spanish folkloric traditions, most especially the modal scales and syncopated rhythms found in flamenco, were out of fashion.

Suriñach supported himself by conducting, and by writing music for commercials and cartoons.  In 1952, a performance of Ritmo Jondo at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City attracted the attention of dancer and choreographer Doris Humphrey. Suriñach expanded the work for Ms. Humphrey to use as a dance score. Not long after, more dance commissions came to Suriñach: from Alvin Ailey, Robert Joffrey, John Butler, Pearl Lang, Francisco Moncion, Antonio, and Martha Graham, all of whom found Suriñach to be a generous and talented collaborator. Countless others, including Paul Taylor, Norman Morrice, Garth Fagan, and Doug Varone have created dances to Suriñach’s music.

Suriñach thought that composers should write for the public rather than for themselves. He compared composing to writing a play, and believed audiences adore unpredictability and surprise. His works do not disappoint. His death in 1997 came as a shock to all who knew him. Although he taught only briefly, accepting a very few short-term positions as a visiting professor, he bequeathed his estate to the BMI Foundation. His legacy makes possible a number of awards, in the form of grants and commissions, in Suriñach’s name.
- See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/News/GC-News/Detail?id=5860#sthash.dmzJWc3u.dpuf


Interview with Bruce Duffie here:  http://www.bruceduffie.com/surinach2.html

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Bertomeu  [López], Agustín    born 1939
Concerrto for cello & orch

Next to the 6th symphony there is also his cello concerto:


https://mega.nz/#!b51mUSZI!NYmPrM-MgJ3aXUZTIUEXjQZzSF0UAbxqtr1s3o9VdyM

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Manuel Blancafort [i de Roselló] (1897-1987)

El rapte de les sabines [The Abduction of the Sabines] (symphonic poem, 1931)
    Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona
    Michel Swierczewski, conductor

Simfonia en tres temps [Symphony in Three Movements] (1950)
    Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona
    Edmond Colomer, conductor

Preludio, aria y giga (1944)
    Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona
    Franz-Paul Decker, conductor

Rapsòdia catalana [Catalan Rhapsody] (1953)
    Ernesto Xanco, cello
    Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona
    Antonio García Navarro, conductor

American Souvenir (suite, 1979-82)
        Transatlantic en ruta [Ocean Liner at Sea]
        Melodía discontínua [Discontinuous Melody]
    Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona
    Francesc Llongueras, conductor

Matí de festa a Puiggraciós [Feast Day Morning at Puiggraciós] (1929)
    Spanish National Youth Orchestra
    Joan Grimalt, conductor

    FLAC file(s) in separate RAR folders for each work.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/48860es4z2nz4/Blancafort

Recorded from RTVE internet broadcasts. A mix of concert recordings and studio performances recorded for broadcast. Dates unknown. None of these performances have been issued commercially to the best of my knowledge.