Utwory na płycie:

• Gerhard - Alegrias - Preambulo. Allegro - Listesso tempo -
• Gerhard - Alegrias - Jacara. Allegretto
• Gerhard - Alegrias - Farruca. Andante (tempo di farruca) - Pochissimo piu animato -
• Gerhard - Alegrias - Jaleo. (Crotchet = c.160) - Allegrissimo - Poco accelerando -
• Gerhard - Pedrelliana - Pedrelliana
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - [Introduction.] Andante maestoso -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - [Andante maestoso] - Poco piu largamente - Incalzando -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Don Quixotes vision of Dulcinea. Calmo -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Sancho Panza. Allegretto -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Interlude I (The Plain of La Mancha) -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Allegretto giocoso - Poco piu mosso - Brisk -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - The Vigil at Arms (Vigilia de las armas). Listesso tempo -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - The duel with the muleteer. Alquanto animato -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - The knighting of Don Quixote. [Andante] -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Interlude II. Poco piu lento - Poco pesante - Incalzando -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - The Windmills (Molinos de viento). Andante - Poco agitato -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - The village barber and his basin. Allegretto trivale -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - The Golden Age (La Edad de Oro). Adagietto - Poco piu mosso -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - the galley-slaves (Paso doble de los galeotes). [Allegro] -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Interlude III. Listesso tempo - Andante -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Allegro moderato -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Interlude IV. Maestoso (Tempo I) -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Con moto - Poco piu mosso quasi vivace -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Dulcinea revealed as Aldonza. Larghetto -
• Gerhard - Don Quixote - Epilogue. Adagietto - Tempo I

Gerhard:
Don Quixonte (complete ballet)
Suite from Alegrías
Pedrelliana

The Catalan Roberto Gerhard studied piano with Granados, and was the only Spanish composer to study with Arnold Schoenberg. It was, however, over twenty years before he committed himself to writing twelvetone music. In the interim, his output brought a new focus and precision (owing more to Stravinsky and Bartók) to the Spanish style. All the works on this album were composed in that period. Dating from the early 1940s, his ballet Alegrías was originally conceived for two pianos, but soon evolved into the four-movement suite heard here. The flamenco-inspired movements are linked in pairs, and show Gerhard’s brilliance and humour in equal measure. During this same period Gerhard decided to mark the centenary of his first teacher, Felipe Pedrell (who had also taught Albéniz, Granados, and de Falla), with a three-movement symphony, Homenaje a Pedrell (CHAN 9693). Gerhard failed to secure a performance of the work, but in 1954 was invited to re-work the final movement for a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert, which became Pedrelliana. Gerhard’s ballet on episodes from Cervantes’s Don Quixote evolved for almost a decade, from a work for chamber orchestra, for a touring company (abandoned because of the war), via a version for radio and an expanded orchestral suite, to the work recorded here, in its full and final orchestration for performances at the Royal Opera House in 1950, choreographed by Ninette de Valois. Robert Helpmann danced the title role and Margot Fonteyn Dulcinea.

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Recorded in Dolby Atmos and available in Spatial Audio