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Music creation in the Canary Islands, CD-01
Piano works by Tenerife composers
Little serenade of Ramón GONZELEZ ENRÍQUEZ (1925), Lejanía and Scherzo de Blanca BÁEZ (1920), On the Night of San Juan de Francisco GONZÁLEZ AFONSO (1941), 3 Bagatelas and Fantasy by Juan VICENTE MARRERO (1954), Minimal Habanera and Elegy by Miguel Angel LINARES (1961), Six Variations on a Popular Song of Arístides PÉREZ FARIA (1934), Suite by Armando ALFONSO (1931) and Sonata by Rafael ESTÉVEZ (1961)
Performer: Moses de la Rosa (piano)
Texts: Rosario Alvarez.
Sponsored by UNELCO.
On the cover: "Arguazo" by Manuel Martín Bethencourt 
REF: GR-9633-CD/Dep.leg. G.C.392-199
6 The selection of piano works by composers linked to Tenerife in the second half of the twentieth century puts us in touch with a poetic intimacy that is heard with great pleasure. Composed of these works in solitude and apart from any rupturistic intention, their authors denote different degrees of expressive ambition and, in any case, interesting technical capabilities, always at the service of communication and beauty.
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Music creation in the Canary Islands, CD-02
Concert songs
Anaga de Enrique GUIMERÁ CORBELLA (1954), Siz y Serení de Blanca BAEZ de SILVA (1920), Songs of Love and Nostalgia of Miguel Angel LINARES PINEDA (1961), Erotic by Guillermo GARCIA-ALCALDE (1940), Child, The Comet, Temptation and Today Shines the Sun of Armando ALFONSO LOPEZ (1931) and Six Songs of Water and Wind by Lothar SIEMENS HERNANDEZ (1941)
Performers: Isabel García Soto (soprano) and Angeles García Gutiérrez (piano)
Texts: Rosario Alvarez.
Sponsored by UNELCO.
On the cover: "El bosque" by Pedro González González. 
REF: GR-9634-CD/Dep.leg.G.C.1070-1996.The song has been one of the genres preferred by Canarian authors since the 19th century, although many of these repertoires may be encompassed within what is known by "ballroom song". However, the content of this register offers us a very different, profound and felt lyrics, where the great sensitivity of its authors and their technical knowledge put at the service of texts of great poetic quality, canaries mostly, is manifested. The diversity of languages used shows us the varied musical world through which the creative work of its authors runs.
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Music creation in the Canary Islands, CD-03
Masters of the bands of Las Palmas, 1809-1996
March for the Canary Granadera of José PALOMINO (1755-1810), Verse for wind septimino of Benito LENTINI (1793-1846), The Surprise (Introduction and Waltz) of Agustín MILLARES TORRES (1826-1896), Las Palmas, April 29 (civil march) of Attilio LEY de la PEA (1844-1878), The Sword of Pain (processional march) of Santiago TEJERA OSSAVARRY (1854-1936), Santiago ASCANIO (pasodoble) by Rafael D'VILA MACAS (1850-1934) , Canar song (Fantasy) by Bernardino VALLE CHINIESTRA (1849-1928), Polka-pasodoble by Antonio MANCHADO VIGLIETTI (1843-1910), Moño and pepper (chotis) by Luis MANCHADO MEDINA (1873-1958) and Carmen MARTINON NAVARRO (1877-1947), Brisas of yesteryear (military march) by José MOYA GUILLON (military march) (1877-1947), Brisas of yesteryear (military march) by José MOYA GUILLON (military march) (military march) 1901-1970), Memories of the Canary Islands (pasodoble) by Pedro REVENTUS GASPAR (1919), The Christ of the Good End (processional march) by Antonio HANNA RIVERO (1 Pepín FORRIOL (pasodoble) by Francisco BRITO BEZEZ (1943) and Los guanches (pasodoble) by Josep María TARRIDAS (1908-1992)
Performers: Municipal Band of Music of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria directed by Felipe Amor Tovar.
Texts: Lothar Siemens Hernandez.
Sponsored by La Caja de Canarias.
On the cover: "Risco" by José Jorge Oramas
REF: GR-9736-CD/Dep.leg.G.C.228-1997
Tour of the repertoires generated by the municipal and military bands of the city of Las Palmas through its history. It contains a sample of most of the directors-composers who were at the forefront of them. They are all small works and circumstances that tell us about the spirit that encouraged its protagonists when it came to creating compositions that had a marked social function.
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Music creation in the Canary Islands, CD-04
Richard H. Stein (1882-1944)
Suite "Canarias", op. 34 / Kanarische Suite, op. 34
Performer: Sergio Alonso (piano) T
exts (in Spanish and German): Lothar Siemens Hernández.
Sponsored by Domingo Alonso-AUDI.
On the cover: "Marina" by Manuel López Ruiz.
REF: GR-9737-CD/Dep.leg.G.C.1222-1997
This German composer of Jewish origin took refuge in Gran Canaria at the height of Hitler, living here from 1934 until his death. He had been music director of Radio Berlin and has a fairly respectable catalogue, as seen in the New Grove. In his adopted country he wrote several works such as this long piano suite consisting of 21 issues: Moon night in the Valley of La Orotava.- Songs with shoeed chorus of La Gomera.- Twilight in the cathedral of Las Palmas.- Verbena in La Gomera.- Twilight in the cathedral of Las Palmas.- Verbena in La Gomera. the countryside.- An oasis in Lanzarote.- Little flutists of La Palma.- The bride and groom.- A boy "well" marries.- Women's dispute.- Lonely sepulchre in the spring.- Orphans playing in an old courtyard.- Shy longings.- In memoriam de a young Canarian artist.- The two sisters (lullaby and frivolous song).- The sailor (valverde humorous song).- A "Guajira" to sing it.- Episode: German folk songs aboard a ship.- The sea.- Dances and ancient songs.- Serenata Canarian.- Tejeda.
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Music creation in the Canary Islands, CD-05
M. Bonnín, X. Zoghbi and J.V. Marrero: Cello and piano sonatas
Sonata in E minor by Manuel BONNO GUERON (1898-1993)*, Sonata for vc and piano "Kymul" by Xavier ZOGHBI MANRIQUE de LARA (1954)** and Sonata for vc and piano by Juan Vicente MARRERO CÓRDOBA (1954)**
Performers: Marks Peters (cello), Jesús Angel Rodríguez* and Sophia Bourguignon** (piano) Te
xts: Rosario Alvarez Sp
onsored by CEPSA On the
cover: "La Tarde" of the "Poema del Atlántico" by Nestor Martín-Fernández de la Torre.
REF: GR-9738-CD/Dep.leg.G.C.1223-1997
This chamber duo has been cultivated very little in the Canary Islands, which is why the few works that had been composed until then of this type are gathered here. These are three scores by composers from two different generations of the twentieth century, who manifest styles far removed from each other, albeit with a common denominator: their great expressiveness and their cult of melody.
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