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Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Suite sobre cantos gallegos
Torrijos (Incidental Music) • Marcha de los vencidos
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Suite sobre cantos gallegos
“Under its former music director Pablo González, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra makes the most of this material, with fresh and expressive woodwind (the oboist is outstanding), bright brass and silky strings, captured in a clear recording.”BBC Music Magazine ★★★★

“Under Pablo González, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra play with style and evident affection”Gramophone
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Enrique GRANADOS (1867–1916)
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Liliana – Lyric Poem† (arr. Casals)
Suite oriental† • Elisenda*
Dani Espasa, Piano* • Barcelona Symphony Orchestra • Pablo González
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†WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING
In the last of this three volume series devoted to Granados’s orchestral music, two very different compositional strands are explored. The early Suite oriental reveals his sense of vivid orchestral colour and melodic imagination, couched in the exotic language of the time. Written in a more pared-down style, the one-act ‘lyric poem’ Liliana, a collaboration with the writer Apel·les Mestres, is a four-movement suite in which Granados conjures up a vivid, mythical world. Elisenda is another impressionistic score, both emotive and ethereal, here performed in its arrangement for piano and chamber orchestra.
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Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Dante – Symphonic Poem
La nit del mort • Intermezzo from Goyescas
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La nit del mort
“The performances are of good quality, allowing the listener to discover some pieces from Granados that are not so typical for him.”Pizzicato ★★★★

“The slightly hazy Naxos sound complements performances that are affectionate and characterful”Gramophone
Pablo González| Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
About Pablo González
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The conductor Pablo González was born in 1975 in Oviedo. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and went on to become winner of the Donatella Flick Competition and the Cadaqués International Conducting Competition. He has held the positions of Associate Conductor with both the London Symphony Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, as well as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra of the City of Granada. From 2010 to 2015 he was Music Director of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. His recordings include Prokofiev’s The Prodigal Son with the SWR Sinfonie-orchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg and discs with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie-Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern with whom he has enjoyed an ongoing collaboration for many years. His recording of Schumann’s works for violin and orchestra with Lena Neudauer and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie won the International Classical Music Award.

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About the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
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The OBC (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra – the National Orchestra of Catalonia) was founded in 1944 by Eduard Toldrà. Its commitment is to promote classical and contemporary music of all cultures, giving special attention to Catalan composers. Since its foundation more than 70 years ago, the orchestra’s Music Directors have been Eduard Toldrà, Rafael Ferrer, Antoni Ros Marbà, Salvador Mas, Franz-Paul Decker, García Navarro, Lawrence Foster, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, Eiji Oue and Pablo González. Kazushi Ono took over as Music Director in September 2015. It has made more than 100 recordings for Decca, EMI, Auvidis, Koch, Claves, Naxos, Telarc, Tritó, Columna Música and BIS, combining Catalan with wider repertoire. The OBC has visited some of the world’s major concert halls, including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and has taken part in international festivals including the Proms in London at the Royal Albert Hall and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival.
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of the Canadian artist Norbert Kraft … the overall effect is delightful”

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“Riva lovingly delivers these works with a richly seductive piano sound.”
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“You’ll be treated to pleasing performances of Apparitions (Romantic Waltzes), and there's rich humour in Riva’s accounts of the ten Stories of Youth.”
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