Golden Ages

Pianist and researcher Ricardo Gosalbo is a champion of Spanish and Hispano-American song and a director of the Hispanic Music Series. He introduces some of the principal poets of these divergent but connected art song traditions, from the ‘Golden Age’ of Spanish poets in the 16th and 17th centuries, through Romanticism and into the 20th- century. Joined by the Colombian soprano Julieth Lozano, Ricardo references the poetry of Cervantes, Bécquer, Neruda and others, and their settings by composers including Obradors, Turina and Revueltas.

PROGRAMME

Fernando Obradors (1897 – 1945)
Consejo
from Canciones Clásicas Españolas, Vol. 2
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre (1901 – 1999)
Coplas del pastor enamorado
Eduard Toldrà (1895 – 1962)
Madre, unos ojuelos vi
from Seis canciones castellanas
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Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946)
Olas gigantes
José María Guervós y Mira (1870 – 1944)
XXI: ¿Qué es poesía?
from Rimas de Bécquer
Joaquín Turina (1882 – 1949)
Rima
from Tres arias
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Frederic Mompou (1893 – 1987)
Pastoral
from Deux mélodies
Federico García Lorca (1898 – 1936)
El café de Chinitas
from Canciones españolas antiguas
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Modesta Bor (1926 – 1998)
Canción de cuna para dormir un negrito
from Tríptica de poesía cubana
Xavier Montsalvatge (1912 – 2002)
Canto negro (1945)
from Cinco canciones negras
Carlos Guastavino (1912 – 2000)
Encantamiento (1922)
Ernesto Lecuona (1895 – 1963)
Canción del amor triste
from Cinco canciones con versos de Juana de Ibarbourou
Carlos Guastavino (1912 – 2000)
Milonga de dos Hermanos
Yvette Souviron (1914 – 2015)
Al banco solitario