Capilla Peñaflorida
Conductor: Josep Cabré
THE COMPOSER Juan Vásquez was born in Badajoz around 1510. His first association with music was recorded in 1530 when he gained admission as a chorister at Badajoz Cathedral, where five years later he served as the succentor. Evidence of his musical prowess is that he was engaged as the music master to teach the choirboys in the same year that he was admitted as a chorister. In 1533 he was taken on as the singing instructor to teach not only the choirboys but also the prebendaries. In keeping with the mobility that characterised professional Spanish musicians throughout the Old Regime...+ info
Oscar MartÃn, Piano, Trino Zurita, Violoncello, Miguel Romero, ViolÃn
Manuel castillo Navarro-Aguilera was born in Sevilla in 1930. He displayed musical talent at an early age both as a pianist and as a composer. He studied in Sevilla with Norberto Almandoz (Chapel Master at the Cathedral) and in Madrid with A. Lucas Moreno (piano) and Conrado del Campo (composition). He was awarded the Joaquin Turina Prize when he was only 19, and at 21 he debuted as a pianist with the Bética Chamber Orchestra. He continued his studies in Paris with Lazare Levy (piano) and Nadia Boulanger (composition) and, after his return to Spain, he got a professorship at the Seville...+ info
Orquesta de Cámara Galega
Conductor: Juan de Udaeta
AGOTADO - SOLD OUT Manuel García The tenor, composer, impresario and singing teacher Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García (Seville, 21-I-1775; Paris, 10-VI-1832), was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century Spanish music. The father of Pauline Viardot-García, María Felicia, the legendary Malibrán, and of Manuel Patricio García, and the inventor of the laryngoscope, he was one of the great personalities in European operatic life of the nineteenth century. Both Rossini’s and Mozart’s favourite perfor...+ info
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