Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Wheesht on Monday 04 July 2022, 19:20

Title: Granados – Cant de les Estrelles
Post by: Wheesht on Monday 04 July 2022, 19:20
This poem for Piano, Organ and Voices received its first modern performance 96 years after its premiere in Barcelona in 1911. This  article  (https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/10444/An-Overdue-Welcoming-from-Obscurity#) tells the story of the rediscovery of this composition (which I think is very beautiful and certainly unusual in its combination of instruments and voices).
There is a recording available on Youtube with Douglas Riva as the soloist  here  (https://youtu.be/wV_trrowy7U) and one of the Australian premiere with Carolina Estrada, which I like at least as much,  here  (https://youtu.be/Yi3smRsv5cc).
Title: Re: Granados – Cant de les Estrelles
Post by: Alan Howe on Monday 04 July 2022, 20:04
Yes, very lovely indeed.

Translation: 'Song of the Stars'.
Title: Re: Granados – Cant de les Estrelles
Post by: Ebubu on Thursday 07 July 2022, 18:27
WOULD have been very lovely indeed had the chorus been at the required level... I gave up after a few minutes of choral massacre.
Title: Re: Granados – Cant de les Estrelles
Post by: Wheesht on Thursday 07 July 2022, 18:43
Which of the two recordings are you referring to?
Title: Re: Granados – Cant de les Estrelles
Post by: Ebubu on Saturday 09 July 2022, 20:08
Sorry, the 2nd (Australian) one.  I'll have an ear to the 1st link.