Naxos has released a disc of music by a contemporary Spanish composer whose music is completely unknown to me. The RI description reveals that Brotons' music may very well be to my liking:
Although structured symphonically, Mundus noster has a distinct program; aspects of our contemporary world - bombastic, brassy 'power' contrasting with a melancholy second subject 'poverty'; the grotesque marionette dance of 'hypocrisy'; an aggressive, percussion-driven warlike scherzo; and finally, a vision of hope rising out of chaos and despair. The composer's idiom is a thoroughly tonal, mid-20th-century one, presented in bold Romantic orchestral colors and textures. The work is very accessible, and makes a powerful statement. The concerto is an attractive three-movement piece full of elegance and charm, and a touch of melancholy - shades of Poulenc, perhaps - while the early Suite, written when the composer was seventeen, is a remarkably accomplished and expressive work in a tense, chromatic idiom, displaying the early influence of Shostakovich on the composer.
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