Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
Recorded live at Barcelona’s Teatre Liceu in September, 1989, Leonardo Balada’s newly composed opera was given a fine premiere: the Catalan composer (who studied with
Leonardo Balada’s Fifth Symphony follows a convincing emotional progression, from an ominous opening in his avant-garde style, through a largely serene “Reflection” based on a
With its series of orchestral music of the Catalan composer Leonardo Balada (b. 1933) Naxos demonstrates that this is a composer of importance. His mature
I had the misfortune to first encounter Leonardo Balada in the form of his very disagreeable Steel Symphony, an agglomeration of avant-garde orchestral clichés that
Leonardo Balada’s tragic-comic chamber opera Hangman! Hangman! is a free adaptation of an American cowboy folksong. Johnny is about to be hanged for horse theft,
This is an exceptional disc all round. Composer Leonardo Balada (b.1933) pioneered a fusion between ethnic Catalan and Moorish idioms and the most progressive avant-garde
Leonardo Balada (b. 1933) is a contemporary Spanish composer heavily influenced by native Catalan folk music who also manages to transcend the imposing presence and
