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The Spanish Hour 2402: Invitation to the Dance
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
A program recorded live in concert of Spanish and Latin American music of some of the most recognizable and beloved popular dances of Spain. Habaneras, fandangos, and more, by Ravel (yes, some French music too,) Falla, Sierra, and Águila.
Work by Falla, Sierra, and Águila on the next program presented in collaboration with the Manhattan School of Music.
The Spanish Hour 2403: Music for a Pilgrimage
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
From as far back as the ninth century, perhaps earlier, pilgrims have followed El Camino de Santiago to the shrine of St. James in Compostela. On this edition of The Spanish Hour, we hear selections from the Codex Calixtinus, a 12th-century guidebook of sorts, containing advice and music for the pilgrimage. We’ll hear selections, as performed by Ensemble Organum.
Since the ninth century, the routes to Santiago de Compostela leading to the sanctuary of St. James have attracted countless pilgrim and exercised a potent mystique. What has achieved less attention is the music originally sung during the services in honor of the saint. Marcel Pérès's in-depth study of the Codex Calixtinus, preserved at the Cathedral of Santiago, has led to a reconstruction of the musical gems contained in the rare twelfth-century manuscript. This recording attest to the multiple stylistic influences encountered on the pilgrimage in the early 12th century.
The Spanish Hour 2404: The Genius of Isaac Albéniz
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
Keyboard masterpieces by the Spanish compsoer and piano virtuoso Isaac Albéniz, performed by Miguel Baselga and Judith Jáuregui
Pianists Miguel Baselga and Judith Jáuregui interpret two masterworks by Albéniz: Seis danzas españolas/Six Spanish Dances and Suite española.
The Spanish Hour 2405: Dances, Impressions & Rhapsodies
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
From Joaquín Rodrigo to Ernesto Lecuona to Alberto Ginastera to Gabriela Lena Frank, old and new favorites from Spain and Latin America.
From a Valencian medieval legend to the seat of the ancient Incan empire to pre-Colombian Peru and Bolivia to Cuba and the Argentine tango, works by Ginastera, Rodrigo, Lecuona and Frank, featuring flutist Eugenia Zukerman, pianist Thomas Tirino, and conductors Enrique Bátiz and Keith Lockhart, exploring contemporary visions of times gone by.
The Spanish Hour 2406: Spanish Love Songs for Valentine's Day
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
Love songs, nothing but love songs! Spanish love songs for El Día de los Enamorados – Valentine’s Day from Sephardic romances from the Middle Ages to love songs by Granados and Falla.
Over 500 years of Love Iberian style! Sephardic romances of the Jews of mediaeval Spain, Spanish love songs by Catalan Enrique Granados, and a gitanería of ghostly love by Manuel de Falla.
The Spanish Hour 2407: Classics from Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
20th-century South American classcis from Argentina’s Carlos Guastavino to Chile’s Juan Antonio Sánchez to Venezuela’s Evencio Castellanos.
One was born of Italian immigrants, another was born in Berlin, and yet another was born into one of South America's most distinguished musical families. Yet Carlos Guastavino, Juan Antonio Sánchez, and Evencio Castellanos all contributed to and enriched not only the musical life of Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela, but of Western classical music.
The Spanish Hour 2408: Transcribed and Transformed
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
A program of well-known Spanish keyboard and orchestral treasures transcribed for guitar and heard anew.
Guitarist Jorge Caballero and the Brazilian Guitar Quartet in transcriptions of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Iberian-inspired orchestral work Capriccio Espagnole, Isaac Albéniz piano suite Chants d'Espagne, and more.
The Spanish Hour 2409: Mexico‘s Choral Music Tradition
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
From 17th -century masters Juan García de Zéspedes and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla to modern-day composers Guillermo Alvarez Navarro and Sergio Cárdenas, enjoy a 400-year span of choral music from Mexico, presented by Vocal Essence, Andrew Lawrence King and the Harp Consort, and others.
A potpourri of over four centuries of Mexican choral music, from 17th-century master Juan Garcia de Zéspedes and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla to contemporary composers Guillermo Álvarez Navarro and Sergio Cárdenas.
The Spanish Hour 2410: Paseo Latinoamericano
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
Classical and traditional music of Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as a work by a North-American composer with Peruvian, Chinese, Lithuanian, and Jewish Roots.
Guitarists Lily Afshar and Manuel Barrueco, flutist Marco Granados, the Chiara Quartet, and Quintet of the Americas take us on a Latin-American Walkabout, exploring traditional music and contemporary compositions inspired by the melodically and rhythmically rich music of Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Peru, and Venezuela.
The Spanish Hour 2411: Music for Children
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
Music written for children -- to sing, to play, to enjoy -- by Cuban-born Paquito D'Rivera and Emilio Aragón, Catalan Xavier Montsalvatge, and Teruel native Antón García Abril.
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The Spanish Hour 2412: Profile: Teresa Berganza
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On this week’s program, we celebrate the artistic legacy of Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza, who died May 13, 2022 at the age of 89. Joining her is guitarist Narciso Yepes in music ranging from the 13 through 20th centuries.
On this week’s program, we celebrate the artistic legacy of Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza. The unique vocal characteristics that brought her accolades for her interpretations of Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, in zarzuela, and more, also made Teresa Berganza a remarkable performer in baroque and renaissance repertory. Joined by guitarist Narciso Yepes, we'll hear Teresa Berganza in works ranging from the 13th century's Alfonso X el Sabio through the 13 Old Spanish Songs of García Lorca.
The Spanish Hour 2413: Falla and the Theater
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
In 1904, Carlos Fernandez Shaw introduced Manuel de Falla to "The Three-cornered hat," Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s satire of village life in Andalucía, written in 1874. It’s best known by Manuel de Falla’s music for the ballet of 1919. Falla’s original plan for the novel was to produce it as a pantomime-farce. Joaquín Turina conducted the premiere of "The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife" on April 7, 1917. We'll hear the complete work, along with selections from "El Amor Brujo."
Many have interpreted the elegance, sensuality, and erotic suggestiveness of Manuel de Falla’s music as overt expressions of his homosexuality. Falla’s works for the stage: "El Amor Brujo "(Love, the Magician) and "El Corregidor y la molinera" (The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife), a work which would later become "El sombrero de tres picos "(The Three-Cornered Hat) are featured this week.
The Spanish Hour 2414: Cuba’s Classical Legacy
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
Whether making their homes in Spain, the United States, or never venturing from the Pearl of the Antilles, Cuba’s best-known and best-loved composers, all born in Havana, are featured on this program. Enjoy this musical cornucopia of the melodies and rhythms of Cuba.
Cuban composers and musicians have had an indelible impact on classical music through their unique combinations of European melodies and African polyrhythms. Contradances, waltzes, mazurkas and more by Leo Brouwer, Joaquín Nin, Tania León, and the composer known as “the Cuban Gershwin,” Ernesto Lecuona.
The Spanish Hour 2415: Music for the Festival of Sant Jordi
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30
The Spanish Hour celebrates the Catalan national holiday with Catalan classics from the Renaissance through the 20th century.
Whether you know April 23rd as la Diada de Sant Jordi, el día de la rosa, or el día del llibre, (St. George's Day, The Day of the Rose, or World Book Day,) The Spanish Hour celebrates the Catalan national holiday with Catalan classics from the Renaissance through the 20th century. This week's program focuses on three Spanish composers from the Catalan region. We'll hear sacred music from the Renaissance by Joan Cererols, piano miniatures reminiscent of Schumann's Album for the Young by Granados disciple Josep Martí i Cristià, and a piano trio by Granados himself, written when he was 27.
The Spanish Hour 2416: Remembering Guernica
From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:32
We commemorate the anniversary of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica (April 26, 1937) with “Guernica” Piano Trio number 1 by Octavio Vázquez,
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