Habaneras & Tangos

Gallen, Ricardo

MV 012

This MarchVivo recording presents remastered excerpts from two recitals given by guitarist Ricardo Gallén at the Fundación Juan March in 2014 and 2017. The thread linking all the works on the album is the habanera. Although its name derives from that of the Cuban capital, this genre of song and dance had mixed European and African roots. By the late 19th century, it had travelled back from Cuba to Europe and seduced half the continent with its sensual, swaying rhythm. Having arrived on ships that docked in the ports of Cádiz and Seville, it discovered its close kinship with tango and was later assimilated by flamenco. The habanera captured the imagination of Spanish and French composers because of its power to conjure an exotic vision of “otherness”, as conveyed here by the intimate voice of the Spanish guitar.

Works:

•Vassilis Tenidis: Habanera of Smyrna
• Joaquin Turina: Habanera
• Agustin Barrios Mangore: Habanera
• Eduardo Sainz de la Maza: Habanera
• Manuel de Falla: Le tombeau de Claude Debussy
• Claude Debussy: La soiree dans Grenade
• Emmanuel Chabrier: Habanera
• Isaac Albeniz: Tango
• Francisco Tarrega: Tango "Maria"
• Ernesto Halffter: Habanera
• Emilio Pujol: 3 Spanish Pieces
• Flores Chaviano: Sonata, evocacion y boceto
• Sebastian Iradier: La paloma. Habanera

CD x 1

MarchVivo

12/2/24

8435725603472