Geoffrey Gordon: Lorca Musica Per Cello Solo
Wouter Mijnders
Performed By
Wouter Mijnders
Album UPC
889211391462
CD Baby Account
CDB03522886
CD Baby Track ID
TR0001277961
Label
Cigar House Music
Released
2015-02-10
BPM
138
Rated
0
ISRC
uscgh1554153
Year
2015
Spotify Plays
66
Writers
Writer
Geoffrey Gordon
Pub Co
SpencerSongs Music
Composer
Geoffrey Gordon
Clearance
Sync & All Media Uses
Rights Controlled
Master and Publishing Grant
Rights
One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United Kingdom
Description
Geoffrey Gordon's Lorca Musica per cello solo is a virtuoso work for solo cello inspired by the life of poet Federico Garcia Lorca, and draws on themes and phrases from his ballet score after The House of Bernarda Alba. Fanfare calls it "remarkable."
Notes
Geoffrey Gordon's Lorca Musica per cello solo, in a performance here by Dutch cellist Wouter Mijnders, is inspired by poet Federico Garcia Lorca, as well as the work from which it is drawn: his three act ballet, The House of Bernarda Alba, after the play of the same name. Although Lorca Musica is not intended as a direct derivation of the ballet--and does not in any way attempt to follow the dramatic thread of the play--it is nevertheless intrinsically linked with that work, both thematically and spiritually. The motifs of Alba, and of Lorca’s life--lust, longing, repression, shame, passion, desire and death--provide the framework and wellspring for this music.
Thematic material--phrases, melodic fragments, harmonic and rhythmic cells--have been imported from the ballet. The opening bars recount the death of Adela which concluded both the play and the ballet. However, here it is designed to make a much broader statement. Other references--the Tango, the agitato and sereno themes--are similarly intended to expand on the Alba play, and comment more profoundly on Lorca’s life and death.
Thematic material--phrases, melodic fragments, harmonic and rhythmic cells--have been imported from the ballet. The opening bars recount the death of Adela which concluded both the play and the ballet. However, here it is designed to make a much broader statement. Other references--the Tango, the agitato and sereno themes--are similarly intended to expand on the Alba play, and comment more profoundly on Lorca’s life and death.
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