Banda Municipal de Barcelona & Salvador Brotons - Catalan Wind Music (2017)

The three colourful works on this world première recording are a representative sample of 20th-century Catalan music, all of them including popular cobla band instruments such as the tible and the tenora with their bright, piercing reeds, and the flabiol flute with its high tones. Manuel Oltra’s music is deeply rooted in Catalan tradition, and L’Alimara is a symphonic poem with medieval echoes. Both Juli Garreta’s Suite empordanesa and Joan Lluís Moraleda’s epic Tirant lo Blanc are considered milestones in Catalonian symphonic music, the latter transporting us to the fights, feasts and chivalric romance of its eponymous hero.

TRACKLIST
01. L'Alimara (The Bonfire) (arr. J. León for symphonic band) : L'Alimara (The Bonfire) (arr. J. León for symphonic band)
02. Suite Empordanesa (Arr. R. Lamote de Grignon for Symphonic Band) : Suite Empordanesa (Arr. R. Lamote de Grignon for Symphonic Band): I. Introduction
03. Suite Empordanesa (Arr. R. Lamote de Grignon for Symphonic Band) : Suite Empordanesa (Arr. R. Lamote de Grignon for Symphonic Band): II. Sardana
04. Suite Empordanesa (Arr. R. Lamote de Grignon for Symphonic Band) : Suite Empordanesa (Arr. R. Lamote de Grignon for Symphonic Band): III. Scherzo
05. Suite Empordanesa (Arr. R. Lamote de Grignon for Symphonic Band) : Suite Empordanesa (Arr. R. Lamote de Grignon for Symphonic Band): IV. Final
06. Tirant lo Blanc (Version for Symphonic Band) : Tirant lo Blanc (Version for Symphonic Band): I. Casament del rei d'Anglaterra (The King of England's Wedding)
07. Tirant lo Blanc (Version for Symphonic Band) : Tirant lo Blanc (Version for Symphonic Band): II. Desfeta i mort del gran turc (Defeat and Death of the Great Turk)
08. Tirant lo Blanc (Version for Symphonic Band) : Tirant lo Blanc (Version for Symphonic Band): III. Prometage d'en Tirant i na Carmensina (The Betrothal of Tirant and Carmesina)
09. Tirant lo Blanc (Version for Symphonic Band) : Tirant lo Blanc (Version for Symphonic Band): IV. Balls i festes de la gran victoria (Dances and Celebrations of the Great Victory)