ALFREDO ARACIL (b.1954): Epitafio de Prometeo, Giardino-Notte, Paisaje invisible, Parts 1 and 2, Adagio con variaciones (sobre un adagio de Hugo Wolf).

Catalogue Number: 08N113

Label: Anemos

Reference: C33009

Format: CD

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Description: Epitafio refers both to the Prometheus myth and to one of the planet Saturn's lesser moons, also named Prometheus. The orbit of the latter provides some mathematical relationships used in determining the piece's structure; the former suggests a link to Scriabin's work (in orchestral forces if not musical material), as well as suggesting the piece's somewhat disturbing and melancholy aspect. Harmonically rich - though effectively atonal - and sonorously impressive, the piece settles into a series of slow orbits, implying action on an astronomical scale and superhuman timescale. The Adagio takes its material from Hugo Wolf and Wagner, establishing a link to high romanticism and a rich, decaying tonality, which Aracil then uses as the basis for a series of distorting reflections and overlapping layers of memory, accumulating more contemporary idioms as they progress, without losing sight of the romantic lineage of the material. The two parts of Paisaje also suggest a kind of memory-variation form, the second part playing with memories and reflections of the first - the material is the same, but presented differently, in a different context, changed order, or with variations in detail, much as one's perception of a scene changes imperceptibly over time. The little Giardino takes its title and material -two chords - from Mozart's Don Giovanni and constructs a humorous fantasy on Mozart out of this very limited material. RTVE Symphony Orchestra; Adrian Leaper.

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