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Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:45 am
by lito valle
ilu wrote:I am looking for "Noche de luna en la ruinas", by Mariano Valverde.
Thanks in advance.
ILU.
México.
Hola Ilu
Aquí está Noche de luna... para piano
Valverde - Noche de Luna entre Ruinas -piano.pdf
Saludos (y nos vemos!)
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 4:24 am
by ilu
Lito:
Muchas gracias, seguimos en contacto
... and I hope that the PP" members enjoy this piece and their comments will be well received.
ILU.
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 10:24 am
by alfor
fleubis wrote:...I think this piece takes one on quite an enjoyable journey. (But
medium difficulty?
)
...compared to most of Liszt's opera Fantasies...
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 12:28 pm
by alfor
The Art of Transcription...
...classical indeed (the very first bars faintly reminiscent of Schubert );
motto: „...if Mendelssohn would have written transcriptions...”
Ruperto Chapí:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruperto_Chap%C3%AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRlyoL1wI0c
nms (alfor-edited)
Gonzalez del Valle Zapateado, Jota (Chapi).pdf
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 12:32 pm
by fleubis
...compared to most of Liszt's opera Fantasies...
and of course LIszt is medium difficulty compared to Sorabji
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 12:37 pm
by alfor
fleubis wrote:
...compared to most of Liszt's opera Fantasies...
and of course LIszt is medium difficulty compared to Sorabji
...this might indeed be true...
(but, fortunately, Godowsky gave us some preparatory exercises...
)
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:48 pm
by alfor
„JUGAR CON FUEGA“ (The Play With The Fire) is a famous Zarzuela
by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (Libretto by Ventura de la Vega),
premiered in 1851 in Madrid.
nms (alfor-edited)
Gonzalez del Valle Improvisata Jugar con fuego.pdf
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 4:23 pm
by fleubis
The Gonzalez 'Improvisata Jugar con fuego' is based on yet another operetta that I've never heard of, and dates from 1874. `El Barberillo de Lavapies,' or `The Little Barber of Lavapiés (it is a district of Madrid)' is set in eighteenth-century Madrid, and its funny libretto deals comically with political intrigues in the court of Carlos III. The action follows a comic 'common' couple, the barber Lamparilla and the seamstress Paloma, who help a `romantic' aristocratic couple in trouble with some royalty, Don Luis and the Marquesita. I will have fun finding which themes Gonzales used.
Thank you, Alfred.
P.S.: Even Granados tried his hand at the zazuela genre by reworking his Goyescas into one for the Met.
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:37 pm
by alfor
To fleubis, with compliments!
Surely one of Mr. del Valle's major achievements in this genre - although on an
altogether much smaller level than Liszt.
nms (alfor-edited)
Gonzalez del Valle Rapsodia espanola op.19.pdf
Re: Composers from Central America
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:25 pm
by fleubis
I find Gonzalez Rhapsody quite something. An amazing show piece. Liszt-like indeed, and some of the thematic material will be well familiar to Lisztonians. It is difficult, but very well written for the piano. Great fun playing through this terrific piece. How can music as good as this be ignored for so long?
Alfred, thank you for rescuing this composer from undeserved obscurity. If it weren't for you combing through the libraries, how would we have ever known about Gonzalez?