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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: ttle on Tuesday 28 August 2012, 21:53

Title: Ugarte's Symphony broadcast
Post by: ttle on Tuesday 28 August 2012, 21:53
Those who shall not be sleeping at 11pm ART (4am CET) may want to listen to the Symphony in A (1946) by Floro Ugarte (1884-1975), on Radio Nacional Clásica:
http://www.radionacional.com.ar/vivo/2-clasica-967.html (http://www.radionacional.com.ar/vivo/2-clasica-967.html)
The Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional shall be conducted by Jorge Fontenla.
Since I often have trouble loading programs from that website, if others feel like recording and uploading it here, please feel welcome to do so! According to Mike Herman's discography, there has been no commercial recording of this work so far, although it is regularly mentioned in surveys of Argentinian classical music.
Title: Re: Ugarte's Symphony broadcast
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 28 August 2012, 23:33
We'd have to be persuaded that this work falls within UC's revised remit; but persuade away...
Title: Re: Ugarte's Symphony broadcast
Post by: eschiss1 on Wednesday 29 August 2012, 01:32
the Spanish Wikipedia article suggests that whether or not it is Romantic, it will probably be accessible, which is not (erm... ok, maybe it is... Liszt's B minor sonata's reception being a case in point... but that's another topic) the same thing...
Title: Re: Ugarte's Symphony broadcast
Post by: JimL on Wednesday 29 August 2012, 03:39
Is it just me, or does Peter Lorre spring into mind whenever the name Ugarte pops up?  ;D
Title: Re: Ugarte's Symphony broadcast
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 29 August 2012, 12:41
There's lovely piano piece called Preludio Romántico by Ugarte on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHXbdsM52rY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHXbdsM52rY)
Title: Re: Ugarte's Symphony broadcast
Post by: ttle on Friday 31 August 2012, 17:35
Well, I have listened to part of the piece and it definitely sounds much more like Romantic-era music than post-WWII... However, this may be a subjective opinion  8)