Impressive in Chandos’s\u00a0ongoing, very successful Spanish music series, the BBC Philharmonic and its chief conductor, Juanjo Mena, also explores the works of the Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera in three orchestral volumes. Not only acknowledged as a leading South-American composer of his day, Ginastera is also seen as one of the heroes of Latin-American music in general, whose enduring source of inspiration was Argentina itself: its pre-Columbian legacy on the one hand and the vast landscapes of the pampas on the other.<\/p>\n
Indeed, if\u00a0Ollantay<\/em>\u00a0is inspired by the former, and more especially by a dramatic poem of Inca origin, Ginastera turned to the latter for the setting of his second ballet,\u00a0Estancia<\/em>, based on the life of the\u00a0gauchos<\/em>\u00a0who work in those wide open spaces. The essential genre of music in this piece is the\u00a0malambo<\/em>, an exclusively masculine, competitive traditional dance, far from the seductive tangos of Ginastera\u2019s now more famous compatriot and pupil Astor Piazzolla. While the landscape is the same in\u00a0Pampeana<\/em>\u00a0No. 3, the music is more abstract and contrasted, marking the transition from what the composer called a compositional period of \u2018objective nationalism\u2019 to a \u2018subjective one\u2019.<\/p>\n Alberto Ginastera\u00a0(1916-1983)<\/strong> Ollantay, Op 17 (1947)<\/strong>\u00a013:30 Estancia, Op 8 (1941)<\/strong>\u00a034:17 TT 66:18<\/p>\n Recorded at MediaCity UK, Salford<\/strong> Producers<\/strong> Sound Engineers<\/strong>Tracks<\/h2>\n
\nPampeana N\u00ba3, Op 24\u00a0(1954, revised 1967)<\/strong>\u00a018:11
\nPastoral Sinf\u00f3nica en Tres Movimientos<\/i>
\n(Symphonic Pastorale in Three Movements)
\n1 I Adagio contemplativo – Poco pi\u00f9 mosso – Tempo I – A tempo ma pochissimo pi\u00f9 lento 6:49
\n2 II Impetuosamente – Intermezzo quasi Trio. Un poco meno mosso [Tempo I] –\u00a05:38
\n3 III Largo con poetica esaltazione – Piochissimo pi\u00f9 lento 5:37
\nBBC Philharmonic<\/a>
\nJuanjo Mena<\/a><\/p>\n
\nTres Movimientos Sinf\u00f3nicos<\/i>
\n(Three Symphonic Movements)
\nA Erich Kleiber, afectuosamente
\n4 Paisaje de Ollantaytambo (The Landscape of\u00a0Ollantaytambo). Lento 4:25
\n5 Los guerreros (The Warriors). Allegro –\u00a0Poco pi\u00f9 mosso – Tempo I – Presto e agitato 3:02
\n6 La muerte de Ollantay (The Death of Ollantay) Andante – Adagio – Presto e agitato 5:53
\nBBC Philharmonic<\/a>
\nJuanjo Mena<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBallet in One Act and Five Scenes
\nCuadro I (Scene 1). El Amanecer (Dawn)
\n7 I Introducci\u00f3n y escena (Introduction and Scene).\u00a0Allegro – Andante – 3:15
\n8 II Peque\u00f1a danza (Little Dance). Allegro –\u00a0Meno mosso 1:34
\n9 III Danza del trigo (Wheat Dance). Tranquillo – [ ] –\u00a0Tempo I ma un poco rubato 3:12
\n10 IV Los trabajadores agricolas (The Farm Workers).\u00a0Tempo gusto 3:05
\n11 V Los peones de hacienda (The Cattlemen).\u00a0[ ] – Mosso e ruvido\u00a01:58
\n12 VI\u00a0Los puebleros (The Townsfolk). [ ]\u00a02:32
\n13 VII Triste pampeano (Pampas Melancholy).\u00a0Lento 3:24
\n14 VIII La doma (The Rodeo). Allegro molto 2:02
\n15 IX Idilio crepuscular (Twilight Idyll). Adagio 2:47
\nCuadro IV (Scene 4). La noche (Night)
\n16 X Nocturno (Nocturne). Lento – Pi\u00f9 lento –\u00a0Tempo I – Pi\u00f9 lento, quasi larguetto\u00a04:24
\nCuadro V (Scene 5). El Amanecer (Dawn)
\n17 XII Escena (Scene). Andantino – Lento 1:43
\n18 XII Danza final. Malambo (Final Dance. Malabo).\u00a0Allegro – Tempo di malambo 3:43
\nLucas Somoza Osterc<\/strong>\u00a0speaker \/ baritone
\nBBC Philharmonic<\/a>
\nJuanjo Mena<\/a><\/p>\n
\n14 January 2014 (Estancia<\/i>) and 4 March 2015 (other works)<\/p>\n
\nRalph Couzens (Executive)
\nMike George<\/p>\n
\nStephen Rinker
\nSharon Hughes\u00a0(Assistant)
\nOwain Williams (Assistant,\u00a0Estancia<\/i> only)<\/p>\n