HECHO EN SALAMANCA (MADE IN SALAMANCA):
A recording by the two most influential classic guitarists from Panama. Teresa Toro and Emiliano Pardo-Tristán. Their duet debut recital on July 6, 1989 in Panama's National Theater was well received and sold [+]HECHO EN SALAMANCA (MADE IN SALAMANCA):
A recording by the two most influential classic guitarists from Panama. Teresa Toro and Emiliano Pardo-Tristán. Their duet debut recital on July 6, 1989 in Panama's National Theater was well received and sold out. Since then, Teresa and Emiliano have performed recitals and concerts with orchestras to an enthusiastic audience of followers.
MADE IN SALAMANCA: THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR WORK.
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) a Spanish composer born in Cádiz, wrote the two act opera La Vida Breve (Brief Life) in 1905. The same year he also won the first prize in the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts composition contest. The opera script is adapted from the poem La Chavalilla (The girl) by Carlos Fernández Shaw. It tells the love story of the gypsy Salud and Paco, a wealthy young man. Paco will betray Salud and marry Carmela, a woman of his own social status. Although the entire opera is rarely performed, the first of its two dances is well known, especially the transcriptions for violin and piano, piano solo and two guitars. The first of the two dances in Brief Life is a jota, heard in the second act when Paco and Carmela are celebrating their marriage party and invite everybody to dance, while Salud watches trough a window. The gypsy is sad about her unlucky destiny, and when the dance is over she confronts Paco. After revealing to the guests Paco's treason, Salud dies at hers lover's feet. The opera is located in the Albaicín, a traditional gypsy neighborhood in the province of Granada. The argument, like a metaphoric transformation from García Lorca's romances, describes the Andalusian sorrow, the black pity that in the words of Lorca himself is "a discrepancy between the intelligence of love and its surrounding mystery, which is never understood."
Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida, better known as Leo Brouwer, was born in Havana, Cuba on March 1st, 1939. Brouwer, grandnephew of Ernesto Lecuona, is without a doubt the most important guitar composer of the Twentieth-century, having catalogued the largest number of concertos for the instrument. His four Micropiezas (Micro pieces) were dedicated to the French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), famous for the systematic use of polytonality (the simultaneous use of
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