Rodrigo: Retablo De Navidad

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Cat No: 8557223

Release Date: 01 September 2003

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 747313222322

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: RODRIGO

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Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)Retablo de Navidad (Christmas Carols and Songs)Himnos de los neofitos de Qumran (Hymns of the Neophytes ofQumran) M??sica para un codice salmantino (Music for a SalamancanCodex)Cantico de San Francisco de Asis (Canticle of Saint Francisof Assisi)Joaquin Rodrigo was born on 22nd November 1901 in Sagunto,in the Spanish province of Valencia; he was the son of a businessman and theyoungest of ten children. A bout of diptheria left him blind from the age ofthree, but as a result of this misfortune he developed a strong internal worldand ultimately decided to dedicate himself to music. In 1906 the family movedto the city of Valencia, where Joaquin attended the local school for the blind.There he received his first music lessons and, on hearing Verdi's Rigoletto,became convinced that his vocation was to be a composer. Between 1917 and 1922he studied composition privately with Francisco Antich, a professor at theValencia Conservatory. His earliest compositions date from 1922 and anorchestral work, Juglares, was first performed two years later. By then Rodrigohad come into contact with the new wave of avant-garde composers active inMadrid at the time, but in 1927 he decided to move to Paris, where he studiedunder Dukas. He married the Turkish pianist Victoria Kamhi in 1933 -- they wereseparated briefly before being reunited in Paris in 1935, Rodrigo havingexpressed his yearning for his wife in his Cantico de la esposa. The Conciertode Aranjuez, the work that established his reputation as a composer, was firstperformed by the guitarist Regino Sainz de la Maza after the end of the SpanishCivil War. There followed the Concierto heroico for piano (1943), the Conciertode estio for violin (1944), Ausencias de Dulcinea for bass, four sopranos and orchestra(1948) and the Concerto in modo galante for cello (1949): the central works ofhis catalogue. During the Franco regime, Rodrigo's works were the solerepresentatives of Spanish music abroad, at least until the appearance on thescene of the innovation of the Generation of '51, and his international renownreached its height in 1958 with the premi?¿re in San Francisco of Fantasia paraun gentilhombre. The guitarist Andres Segovia, the work's dedicatee, was thesoloist. The 1950s also saw the composition of two stage works: the balletPavana real (1955), on the life of the sixteenth-century Valencian composerLuis de Milan, and the zarzuela El hijo fingido (1955-60, after Lope de Vega).The latter was first staged in 1964 but was then neglected until 2001 when itwas revived as part of the composer's centenary celebrations with a productionat Madrid's Teatro de la Zarzuela. Rodrigo was also awarded an honorarydoctorate by the University of Salamanca in 1964, a significant recognition onthe part of the academic world of his creative efforts. In subsequent years therise of a new generation of Spanish composers meant he was no longer in the
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