Americascapes 2: American Opus Basque National Orchestra & Robert Trevino
Album info
Album-Release:
2024
HRA-Release:
01.11.2024
Label: Ondine
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Artist: Basque National Orchestra & Robert Trevino
Composer: George Walker (1922-2018), George Crumb (1929-2022), Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- George Walker (1922 - 2018): Address for Orchestra:
- 1 Walker: Address for Orchestra: I. Poco adagio - Molto più mosso 08:14
- 2 Walker: Address for Orchestra: II. Molto adagio 02:24
- 3 Walker: Address for Orchestra: III. Dramatico 07:20
- George Crumb (1929 - 2022): A Haunted Landscape:
- 4 Crumb: A Haunted Landscape 16:47
- Silvestre Revueltas (1899 - 1940): La coronela:
- 5 Revueltas: La coronela: I. Damitas de aquellos tiempos 04:46
- 6 Revueltas: La coronela: II. Danza de los desheredados 07:25
- 7 Revueltas: La coronela: III. Pesadilla de don Ferruccio 08:50
- 8 Revueltas: La coronela: IV. Juicio final 12:23
Info for Americascapes 2: American Opus
Diese Fortsetzung des für den Gramophone Award nominierten Albums „Americascapes“ des Baskischen Nationalorchesters und Robert Treviño ist eine spannende und zutiefst persönliche Reise in die Musik dreier amerikanischer Komponisten, mit zweien arbeitete der Dirigent Robert Treviño auch direkt künstlerisch zusammen. George Walkers dreisätzige „Address for Orchestra“ (1959) war das erste Orchesterwerk des mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichneten Komponisten. Walker hatte die Hoffnung geäußert, dass Treviño dieses Stück eines Tages aufnehmen würde. George Crumb war ein kreatives Genie und ein bedeutender Komponist der amerikanischen Avantgarde-Schule. „A Haunted Landscape“ (1984), geschrieben für das New York Philharmonic, ist ein Werk mit einer rätselhaften Klangwelt und umfasst neben dem Sinfonieorchester 20 Schlaginstrumente. Die Musik von Silvestre Revueltas (1899–1940), der in Mexiko geboren wurde, aber einen Großteil seines Lebens in den Vereinigten Staaten verbrachte, hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen. Das in diesem Album enthaltene Werk war das letzte des Komponisten vor seinem frühen Tod und wurde für ein Ballett geschrieben. Das Baskische Nationalorchester ist eines der renommiertesten symphonischen Ensembles Spaniens, dessen Chefdirigent Robert Treviño seit 2017 ist.
Basque National Orchestra
Robert Treviño, Dirigent
The Basque National Orchestra
the leading symphony orchestra from an autonomous region nationwide, was created in 1982 on the basis of a project assigned to Imanol Olaizola, at that time music director with the Basque Government Department of Culture. Since Enrique Jordá took up the baton of a newly born formation as its artistic advisor and directed its first steps, different conductors have played their part in nurturing the quality and reach of the Basque Orchestra. Today Robert Treviño is its chief conductor. Jun Märkl, Andrey Boreyko (as principal guest conductor), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Gilbert Varga and Cristian Mandeal, Mario Venzago, Hans Graf, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Matthias Kuntzsch, Maximiano Valdés and Jordá himself, its honorary conductor, have governed the fate of the Orchestra in its rising trajectory. A well-structured, dynamic activity with its roots in Basque cultural life has prompted the Basque National Orchestra to give more than 100 concerts every season, distributed into different cycles and in collaboration with different national and international institutions.
Robert Trevino
Trevino’s star has risen rapidly among American conductors. The past three years have seen his appointments as Music Director of the Basque National Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Trevino burst into the international spotlight at the Bolshoi Theater in December 2013, leading a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo. He was nominated for a Golden Mask award, and one reviewer wrote, “There has not been an American success of this magnitude in Moscow since Van Cliburn.” Recent seasons have seen an ever-growing number of major debuts – among them the London Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, San Francisco Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Sao Paulo Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Nationale de France, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and Helsinki Philharmonic. In the pandemic-shortened 2019–20 season Robert led the Basque National Orchestra, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra on European tours and made debut conducting appearances with Orchestre de Paris and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His reengagements included the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Sao Paulo Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, SWR Symphony, and RAI Torino. Upcoming debut appearances include Filarmonica della Scala and Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. The 2020/21 season sees returns to RAI Torino, Tonkunstler Orchestra and NDR Radiophilharmonie, among others.
Booklet for Americascapes 2: American Opus