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2021-03-18 09:47:36
Hilary Hahn’s Spanish composer dies at 87
The death has been announced of Antón Garcia Abril, a prolific composer of concert works and film scores for the Spanish movie industry. He was head of composition at the royal conservatoire in Madrid for 31 years.
2020-06-15 00:43:21
Composer Antón García Abril is best known in his native Spain for his extensive work in film and television, not to mention a prolific catalogue of concert works. In fact, my colleague David Hurwitz rightly praised his large-scale Concierto Aguediano for guitar and orchestra in an earlier review. Abril also wrote a piece called “Third […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-06-24 19:15:00
The best new classical albums: June 2019
[…] to Ravel's friends who died in the 1914-1918 war. A vivacious Prélude, with the oboe as lithe and athletic as a creature of the forest. The dance origins of the Forlane are sprightly, every "step" in the music vivid. The more formal Minuet and the Rigaudon are vigorous, but beneath this lies sorrow, Oboe and strings interact, two voices entwining like partners in a dance, an allusion that connects the living and the dead.Source: classical-iconoclast.blogspot.com Antón García Abril: 6 Partitas for Solo ViolinHilary Hahn, violinRecorded June 28-30, 2017 at Gore Recital Hall, Roselle Center for the Arts, and University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A.Released on May 17, 2019 by DeccaHilary Hahn never stops pushing the boundaries of classical music. An accomplished virtuoso and talented chamber musician, the American violinist plays the entire violin repertoire from Bach all the way up to the present day, including the classical and romantic period. Most of all, she likes to excite […]
2018-02-20 06:47:35
The NationalIn 2004, he participated as a judge for the XVI Doña Infanta Cristina International Guitar Competition accompanied by renowned composers Anton García Abril and Tomás Marco. We caught up with him ahead of his Dubai debut... What are your expectations ...
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