Alberto Rosado, José Luis Estellés & David Apellániz - Jesús Torres: Duos with Piano (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Duos With Piano with pianist Alberto Rosado presents itself before us like a photograph, still in development, of a part of the vital outline of Jesús Torres. It shows us his essential characteristics, his concerns, and the solutions he has adopted throughout the more than twenty years covered by this volume (1997-2018). Along with Rosado’s duo partners on the album.

The technical and expressive maturity of works such as the Fantasía for clarinet is surprising -to say the least-: a language already formed, solid and unambiguous, which allows him to move towards less explored fields in later works.

From there, the approach to extended techniques becomes more fluid in the Sonata for flute and piano, polymetric games in Splendens or the search for new articulations and timbral fusions in Variations, which increase Torres’ expressive palette.

All of them serve as testing grounds – what work is not? – for the progressive filtering towards Silentum Amoris (2018): a music without artifice, in search of the essential, suppressing all excess; expressive, vocal, dramatic at times and poetic from the root.

We have before us a set of pieces whose listening takes us through one of the most admired voices of our music and that can suppose the base of what, shortly, we can consider as the Spanish school of composition. But that is another story…

Duo Partners
Track 1 – José Luis Estelles, Clarinet
Track 2 – María Zubimendi, Accordion
Track 3 – Miquel Bernat, Percussion
Tracks 4 & 5 – Clara Andrada, Flute
Track 6 – David Apellaniz, Violoncello
Track 7 – Robert Silla, Oboe

Tracklist:
01. Fantasía for Clarinet & Piano
02. Accentus
03. Splendens
04. Flute Sonata: I. Inmaterial, inestable
05. Flute Sonata: II. Fluido
06. Variaciones for Cello & Piano
07. Silentium amoris (Version for Oboe & Piano)


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