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Recorded on 11/23/2005, uploaded on 03/21/2009

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Invocación y Danza                  Joaquin Rodrigo

Joaquin Rodrigo is one of Spain's most famous 20^th century composers. His music was inspired by the innumerable melodies of Spain, and despite never having seen his country's landscape (Rodrigo became blind at the age of three), with every note he describes the colors of a country he loved with all his heart. Invocation and Dance is a monumental work, composed as homage to Manuel de Falla. In it, Rodrigo creates deeply reflective passages of magic (the invocation), while others transport us to laughter or despair (the dance). In the pieces' arpeggios and harmonics, Rodrigo very cleverly conceals some fragments of de Falla's work such as El Amor brujo, or Noches en los Jardines de España.     Rafael Serrallet

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.