Espiral: Spanish Chamber Orchestral Works

Description

The world of modern musical composition—as opposed to the arguably linear path followed for centuries by Western Music—emerges as a fascinating crossroads where different realities, styles, forms, and sounds meet. This album, besides placing particular attention on the bonds between Spanish and Latin American music, constitutes a breathtaking journey through today’s musical scene, as it ranges from minimalism to abstract, traditional, and folk music, thus becoming a small sample of a big musical world. Camerata Gala owes its current name to the renowned Spanish poet, playwright, novelist, and writer Antonio Gala, whose similarly named foundation enjoys a close cooperation with the Camerata Gala. In 2015, for instance, the Camerata Gala undertook the concert for the 60th anniversary of the Madrid-based Juan March Foundation, which was met with great success and was broadcast live on Spain’s national radio service (Radio Nacional de España). Alejandro Muñoz, as principal conductor of the Camerata Gala, Alejandro Muñoz has performed in over a hundred concerts as well as in numerous recordings. Currently, he is also the principal conductor of the Sinfonietta Córdoba and of the Youth Orchestra of Cordoba (Orquesta Joven de Córdoba), combining his activities as conductor with those of teacher at the Cordoba Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta de Córdoba) and at Academia Córdoba Music, where he teaches violin, viola, and conducting.