Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - Esteban Benzecry Orchestral Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Throughout the course of the 20th century, an ever greater number of artistic exchanges took place between Europe and the young nations of Latin America, which were starting to add their achievements to the history of classical music. As European composers were setting off to explore the paths of the avant-garde, their Latin American counterparts were injecting music with a vitality that sprang from folk song and dance. The early heroes of a saga still unfolding today were the Argentinian Alberto Ginastera, Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Mexicans Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas, along with other, lesser-known figures. French-Argentinian composer Esteban Benzecry is now proving himself a worthy successor to these masters, using his breathtaking talent to create vast musical landscapes inspired by his roots, his travels, his imagination and experimentation, and by a passion for and mastery of orchestral writing, as captured on this recording.

As early as the 1920s, the Provençal composer Darius Milhaud, returning from Brazil full of that country’s songs and rhythms (including the song that gave its name to the very Parisian Le Boeuf sur le toit), had dreamed of a ‘Mediterranean music’. This would not be restricted to works from the Mediterranean basin, but would embrace all music with a ‘Latin’ essence, linking countries on both sides of the Atlantic in a single dreamlike and colourful ideal. With that same ideal in mind, many South American composers travelled to Paris to complete their training—among others, Villa-Lobos studied with Fauré, and Piazzolla with Nadia Boulanger (who encouraged him to find his own path, drawing inspiration from his Argentinian roots). Similarly, Esteban Benzecry, who was born into a family of musicians in Lisbon (in 1970) but grew up in Buenos Aires—where his introduction to music came via the guitar—left Argentina for France in 1997 to study at the Paris Conservatoire.

The Paris of the late 20th century was very different from that of the années folles, when folk music was very highly regarded. A new avant-garde was setting the tone, a trend focused on radical experimentation and research. Displaying a wonderful independence of spirit, however, Benzecry continued to plough his own furrow while enriching his idiom with the processes, ideas and colours of spectralism and electroacoustic music, and acknowledging the master composers whose works most closely matched his own aspirations: figures such as Messiaen and Dutilleux, and, more generally, the French symphonic music which, in the wake of Debussy and Ravel, had turned the orchestra into a magical instrument.

TRACKLIST

01. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Violin Concerto: I. Évocation d'un rêve
02. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Violin Concerto: II. Évocation d'un tango
03. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Violin Concerto: III. Évocation d'un monde perdu
04. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Ciclo de canciones (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 1, Del encuentro al camino
05. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Ciclo de canciones (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 2, Paz
06. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Ciclo de canciones (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 3, Quiero ser
07. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Ciclo de canciones (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 4, La noche
08. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Ciclo de canciones (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 5, Altar de la existencia
09. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Clarinet Concerto: I. Ecos del horizonte
10. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Clarinet Concerto: II. Danzas volcánicas
11. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Clarinet Concerto: III. Baguala enigmática
12. Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Boggiano - Clarinet Concerto: IV. Toccata caribeña



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