JOAQUIN NIN-CULMELL (1908-2004)
Tonadas, Vol. IV, No. 41
El cant dels ocells (The song of the birds)
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
Here Alicia de Larrocha played the piece as an encore, which she never recorded commercially.
Live from Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 03-December-1984
Broadcast on 89.9 FM (KCDS), California,1984
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Joaquín Nin-Culmell (1908-2004) was born in Berlin. He was a son of the distinguished Cuban composer, pianist and musicologist Joaquín Nin y Castellanos, Nin-Culmell was educated in New York and in Paris and had his first music lessons from his father, following whose example he became a student of the Schola Cantorum, where his teachers included the pianist Paul Braud and, for composition, Paul Dukas, and at the Paris Conservatoire. He later studied composition with Manuel de Falla in Granada, and continued his development as a pianist under the guidance of Alfred Cortot and of Ravel's friend Ricardo Viñes. He has enjoyed a distinguished career as a composer and pianist, with academic positions at Williams College, Williamstown, and subsequently at the University of California, Berkeley.
The four volumes of Tonadas were written between 1956 and 1961 and consist of versions of traditional Spanish dances and songs, treated in a manner that continues the work of Manuel de Falla and Spanish nationalist composers. Arrangements and occasional variations are subtly harmonized to reveal their nature and musical possibilities and generally treated with unobtrusive ingenuity.
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More Joaquín Maria Nin-Culmell from Alicia de Larrocha:
Tonadas, Vol.II (rec.1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2D8DdyM-PU
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ALICIA DE LARROCHA
Official website: http://www.aliciadelarrocha.com/international-pianist
Facebook official page: https://www.facebook.com/COOPERALIA?fref=ts
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Photos: All right reserved by Alicia Torra de Larrocha; Decca Ltd.
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