Piano, organ
SKU:
BO.B.3436A
Composed
by Granados-Riva. Parts.
Duration 15:00. Published
by Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3436A).
English
comments:
On 11th
March 1911, the great
pianist and composer
Enric Granados performed
this piece as an absolute
premiere at Barcelona's
modernista concert hall
Palau de la Musica
Catalana. In spite of the
great success achieved on
the day of the premiere
by this ambitious work
for piano, organ and
three choirs whose words
in Catalan were provided
by an unknown writer, the
piece was never again
performed or published.
Its manuscript was
assumed to be lost for
decades and it was even
thought that it might
have been burnt in a
fire. Finally, the
pianist and Granados
specialist Douglas Riva
recovered it and offered
it to Boileau Editorial
de Musica for
publication. El Cant de
les estrelles was
performed once again on
22nd March 2007, 96 years
after its first
performance, in New
York's Ascension Church,
with Douglas Riva himself
at the piano and Dennis
Keene
conducting.
Come
ntarios del
Espanol:
El 11 de
marzo de 1911 el gran
pianista y compositor
Enric Granados interpreto
esta obra, con caracter
de estreno absoluto, en
el modernista Palau de la
Musica Catalana de
Barcelona. Esta ambiciosa
obra para piano, organo y
tres coros, con texto en
lengua catalana de autor
desconocido, tuvo gran
exito el dia de su
estreno pero no se volvio
a interpretar mas y
tampoco fue editada. El
manuscrito de El cant de
les estrelles se dio por
perdido durante decadas e
incluso se penso que se
habia quemado en un
incendio. Finalmente, el
especialista en Granados
y pianista Douglas Riva
lo recupero y ofrecio su
edicion a Boileau
Editorial de Musica. El
Cant de les estrelles ha
sido de nuevo
interpretado el 22 de
marzo de 2007, 96 anos
despues de su estreno,
por el propio Douglas
Riva al piano bajo la
direccion de Dennis Keene
en la Iglesia de la
Ascencion de Nueva
York.
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