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
This sequel to the Gramophone Award-nominated album ‘Americascapes’ by the Basque National Orchestra and Robert Treviño is an exciting and deeply personal journey into the music of three American composers, two of whom the conductor Robert Treviño also worked with directly as an artist. George Walker's three-movement ‘Address for Orchestra’ (1959) was the first orchestral work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. Walker had expressed the hope that Treviño would one day record this piece. George Crumb was a creative genius and an important composer of the American avant-garde school. ‘A Haunted Landscape’ (1984), written for the New York Philharmonic, is a work with an enigmatic sound world and includes 20 percussion instruments in addition to the symphony orchestra. The music of Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), who was born in Mexico but spent much of his life in the United States, has gained increasing attention in recent decades. The work included on this album was the composer's last before his untimely death and was written for a ballet. The Basque National Orchestra is one of Spain's most renowned symphonic ensembles, with Robert Treviño as its chief conductor since 2017.
Basque National Orchestra
Robert Treviño, conductor
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