JOAQUÍN RODRIGO (1901-1999): Ausencias de Dulcinea (José Antonio López [baritone], Lilian Moriani, Victoria Marchante, Celia Alcedo [sopranos], María José Suárez [mezzo]), GERARDO GOMBAU (1906-1971): Don Quijote velando las armas, JOSÉ GARCÍA ROMÁN (b.1945): La resurrección de Don Quijote, JORGE FERNÁNDEZ GUERRA (b.1952): 3 momentos de Don Quichotte, FRANCISCO ASENJO BARBIERI (1823-1894): Don Quijote for Tenor and Orchestra (Fernando Cobo [tenor]).

Description: From an 1861 work commemorating the beginning of Cervantes' annual memorial (three pieces from incidental music by Barbieri for a play) to Guerra's 2005 suite of music from a newly-commissioned film score for G.W. Pabst's 1933 Quixote film, these are five Spanish composers' responses to Cervantes and his anti-hero, stylistically diverse but generally conservative and approachable with Román providing the most pungently dissonant (yet oddly minimalist) sounds among the whole group. Spanish-English texts. Chorus and Orchestra of the Comunidad de Madrid; José Ramón Encinar.