Raquel Lojendio, Irene Alfageme – Cuadernos Secretos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Raquel Lojendio, Irene Alfageme - Cuadernos Secretos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Raquel Lojendio, Irene Alfageme – Cuadernos Secretos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:29 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Eudora Records

Jesús Legido, one of the greatest composers of contemporary Art song in Spain, is portrayed here in this first recording of a selection of his voice and piano songs, which draw inspiration from folklore and his poetic influences (like Antonio Machado and Federico García Lorca). Renowned Spanish soprano Raquel Lojendio, accompanied by pianist Irene Alfageme, invites us to this marvelous voyage through love, death and life, the three pillars of Legido’s poetic and powerful language.
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Raquel Lojendio – P’ra você (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Raquel Lojendio – P’ra você (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:42 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IBS Classical

“I compose music because I love it. I love melodies, I love singing. And I have found out with pleasure that there is a public out there who is very interested in my music whenever I publish it. That’s fantastic! I refuse to just compose music designed to be discovered and understood by future generations.” With these words Carlos Guastavino (Santa Fe, 1912 – Buenos Aires, 2000) expressed himself, aware that his art belonged to those who wanted to hear and sing it, reneging on the customary exercise of the composer who seeks to be recognized by the umpteenth harmonic discovery never before tried out. Guastavino enriched the young voice of the Argentine people with his music, giving it a unique and identifiable tone, supporting the tip of his feet in a folklore to which he gave wings to surpass himself. “Cinco canciones argentinas” (Five Argentinean songs), Op. 10. This work exemplarily shows the most characteristic features of what has come to be known as Ginastera’s period of objective nationalism. Namely, the use of folkloric elements and tonal techniques together with other techniques which are typical of atonalism, especially in piano accompaniment.

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