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2020-06-05 08:06:16
A sense of shimmering silence: music by the Catalan composer Josep Maria Guix on Images of broken light from Neu records
Josep Maria Guix Images of Broken Light; London Sinfonietta, Abel Tomas, Arnau Tomas, Josep Colom; Neu Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 November 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Welcome to the subtle and concentrated world of Catalan composer Josep Maria Guix with seven recent works for ensemble, and for chamber forces, all inspired by Japanese haikusStart playing this disc and it hardly seems to start at all; composer Josep Maria Guix's music contains subtle responses to silence and sense of the pared down essentials. This new disc Images of Broken Light on Neu Records features seven recent works by Guix performed by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Geoffrey Patterson, violinist Abel Tomas and cellist Arnau Tomas (both founding members of the Cuarteto Casals) and pianist Josep Colom Catalan composer Josep Maria Guix studied in Barcelona and in Paris at IRCAM, receiving lessons and advice from […]
2019-02-12 20:35:53
Anglais - A New Opera: l'Enigma di Lea
Finally, after many years, Liceu has hosted the world premiere of an opera, L’enigma di Lea by Benet Casablancas with text by Rafael Argullol. Casablancas, born in 1956, is one of the main current Catalan composers. Although his catalogue is long and varied this is his first opera. Rafael Argullol, born in 1949, is a poet, novelist, philosopher, essay writer and university professor in aesthetics and art theory. The piece, described by the librettist as a ‘mythical tale’, takes place initially in an atemporal dystopia without any references and later in a psychiatric asylum in the present time. The piece presents the figure of Lea, a woman who was possessed physically by divinity, and who therefore accessed the secret of immortality. However, because of this, she is also condemned to wonder for eternity through time and space in an eternal present and to be nothing else but fire and […]
2016-12-08 10:01:00
Catalonia is a creative powerhouse: Pau Casals*, Joan Miró, Antoni Gaudí, and Salvador Dalí were all proud Catalans, and today Barcelona is a vibrant centre of the arts. Jordi Savall is just one of the contemporary Catalan musicians who has had a global impact, and modern modal master Ross Daly's Crete-based music co-operative has an annual Labyrinth in Catalunya outreach workshop. My recent plea for the composers in the photo above taken at the summer workshop of the National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia in 2000 to be identified has been answered by Santi Barguñó of Neu Records with help from Ramón Humet who is in the photo. They are from left to right: Benet Casablancas (bio & music), Marcos Bosch (bio & music), Josep Maria Guix (bio & music), Carles Tort, Moisés Bertran (bio & music), Ramón Humet (bio & music), Enric Riu (bio & music), Joan Guinjoan […]
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