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  • JessVILLA-ROJO

    Concierto platerescoConcierto 2 Serenata

    Hansjrg Schellenberger, Oboe Asier Polo, Cello

    Orquesta de Cmara Reina Sofa Chumachenco

    SPANISH CLASSICS

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    La presencia de ciertas constantes intervlicas,meldicas, modales y tambin de color, de la tradicinmusical espaola es habitual en casi todos los trabajosde Villa-Rojo desde hace ms de dos dcadas. En elConcierto plateresco para oboe y orquesta de cuerdas,de 1997, toman forma posando su mirada en elRenacimiento, que es una de las pocas de mayoresplendor no slo de la msica, sino de todo el artehispano. Es al conocido en la arquitectura de aquelperiodo como estilo plateresco al que aluden estospentagramas, que se desarrollan en un nicomovimiento. Como en l, el concepto de ornamentacinconstituye tan slo una apariencia, porque no solamenteno se opone al de sustancialidad, sino que en realidad esella misma. Lugares comunes de lo que se ha venidoconociendo como ornamentacin gestos meldico-rtmicos ms o menos breves, a veces simplesmelismas, logran crear aqu un continuo, que repartidoentre el solista y la orquesta supone un prodigio deflexibilidad su densidad se ensancha y se encogeconstantemente, su ritmo interno se acelera y decelera,su intensidad crece y decrece, y se configura como elnico discurso, como la sustancia misma de la msica.

    Compuesta en 2004, en la Serenata tambin puedeencontrarse puntos de referencia con el pasado de lahistoria musical, sea ms remoto o ms reciente. Pero nohay citas, guios de complicidad ni cualquier otra formade potenciar el juego dialctico pasado/presente. Porquelo que Villa-Rojo persigue en esta partitura esjustamente romper esa dialctica desde dentro, desde lasonoridad propia, inconfundible, de la gran orquesta decuerdas. Esa misma sonoridad que todos tenemos ennuestra memoria de oyentes, gracias a las pginasseeras del repertorio. Se desarrolla en un nico trazo,pero pueden seguirse en ella tres grandes secciones. As,la primera responde a un impulsivo allegro rtmico; la

    segunda, a un soador y delicadsimo adagio, paravolver de nuevo en la tercera al impulso rtmico, perotamizado esta vez por la cantabilidad del segundo. De latradicin conserva igualmente la Serenata su carcter demsica espontnea, brillante, ligera o cuando menosajena a las tensiones dramticas que encontramos en elConcierto 2 y en otros ttulos de su catlogo, comocorresponde a la circunstancia para la que fue escrita, elencargo de la Orquesta de Cmara Reina Sofa paracelebrar su vigsimo aniversario.

    El Concierto 2, para violonchelo recogido aqu ensu segunda versin, con orquesta de cuerdas , es unaobra de trascendental importancia en la trayectoria deJess Villa-Rojo. Data de 1983, y en ella quedan yadefinidos los principios estticos y las constantesestilsticas que marcarn toda su produccin ulterior,hasta hoy mismo. Consta de tres movimientos y larelacin solista/orquesta es la de sendos todosautnomos y complementarios con altas dosis devirtuosismo instrumental. No debe entenderse sinembargo esta cualidad como medio de exhibicin de lascualidades del primer atril, sino como la explotacinhasta las ltimas consecuencias de una materia musicalinseparable del instrumento. Esa materia ciento porciento violonchelstica es pues la que guaimplacablemente, como una brjula, el discurso sonorode principio a fin, y guarda en sus fondos un contenidoexpresivo que es el que Villa-Rojo ha querido rescatar.De indudable tensin dramtica, honda y sorda como sien la partitura convivieran la msica que explcitamentesuena y otra ms profunda, que no llega a orse pero quese siente, de ella no se deduce una voluntad expresivaprevista por parte del compositor, sino la voluntad deque la msica se exprese a s misma.

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    Spontaneitt hat etwas Traditionelles: Es ist ein leichtesStck oder zumindest ein solches, das weit von derdramatischen Spannung des Concierto 2 und andererWerke aus Villa-Rojos Feder entfernt ist. Als solchespasst es perfekt zu dem Anlass, fr den es geschriebenwurde: als Auftrag zum 20-jhrigen Bestehen desKnigin Sofia-Kammerorchesters.

    Das Concierto 2 fr Violoncello (hier in derrevidierten Fassung mit Streichorchester) ist ein Schls-selwerk in Villa-Rojos kompositorischer Laufbahn. Esentstand 1983, und man findet darin die smtlichensthetischen Prinzipien und stilistischen Konstantenausgebildet, die das Schaffen des Komponisten bis zumheutigen Tage kennzeichnen. Das Werk besteht aus dreiStzen, und die Beziehung zwischen Solist und Orchesterzeigt sich als eine komplementre Autonomie mit groenPortionen instrumentaler Virtuositt. Darin sollte man

    allerdings nicht das Mittel sehen, die Qualitten desSolisten herauszustreichen, sondern vielmehr eineMethode zur umfnglichsten Ausbeutung jenes Materials,das untrennbar mit dem Instrument verbunden ist. Diesedurch und durch cellistische Musik leitet die Musik vonAnfang bis zum Ende wie ein Kompass: Tief im Innernliegt der Ausdrucksgehalt, den Villa-Rojo freisetzen will.Wenngleich das Werk von unterdrckter dramatischerSpannung ist als ob die Tne, die wir wirklich hren, inder Partitur neben einer tieferliegenden Musik bestnden,die nicht zu hren, sondern nur zu fhlen ist , sprichtdiese Spannung nicht von den expressiven Absichten desKomponisten, sondern vom Wunsch der Musik selbst zurKommunikation.

    Carlos VillasolDeutsche Fassung: Cris Posslac

    Jess Villa-Rojo es una de las personalidades msdinmicas de la msica espaola contempornea. Sularga labor como clarinetista y sus estudios sobre losnuevos procedimientos sonoros de su instrumento hanestimulado la creacin de decenas de obras decompositores espaoles y extranjeros, estrenadas por lmismo y por el Laboratorio de Interpretacin Musical(LIM), que fundara y dirige desde 1975. Sus trabajoscomo investigador, especialmente en el terreno de lagrafa musical, han sido sistematizados en variaspublicaciones. Como animador cultural, ha organizado ycoordinado multitud de eventos musicales, entre elloslos ciclos del LIM (Madrid), Festival BBK/MsicasActuales (Bilbao) y el Festival Internacional de

    Alicante, y dirigido el Centro para la Difusin de laMsica Contempornea. Nacido en Brihuega(Guadalajara) en 1940, y formado en Madrid e Italia, suobra de creacin se acerca a los dos centenares de ttulosencuadrados en todos los gneros, que han sidoampliamente divulgados en Europa y Amrica. Suestilo, que parte en los aos setenta de la especulacinsonora y de ciertas formas de aleatoriedad, se concentraposteriormente en depuradas expresiones en donde eljuego conceptual cobra particular relevancia. Haobtenido a lo largo de su carrera importantes galardonesy reconocimientos, como el Premio Nacional deMsica, el Gran Premio Roma, el Bla Bartk o elKoussevitzky.

    Jess Villa-Rojo (nacido 1940)

    Concierto plateresco Serenata Concierto 2

    Jess Villa-Rojo is one of the most dynamic figures ofSpanish contemporary music. His long endeavour as aclarinettist and his study of new concepts of thesonorities of his instrument, have inspired the creationof dozens of new works in Spain and abroad, premiredeither by himself or by the Laboratory for InterpretingMusic (LIM), the ensemble he founded in 1975 and hasdirected ever since. His research activities, especially inthe area of graphic notation, have been explored in anumber of publications. As a cultural director he hasorganized and co-ordinated a host of musical events,among them programmes for the LIM (Madrid), theBBK/Contemporary Music Festival (Bilbao) and theAlicante International Festival, as well as managing theCentre for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music.

    Born in Brihuega, Guadalajara, in 1940, andeducated in Madrid and Italy, Villa-Rojoscompositions, almost two hundred works, covering allgenres, have been widely performed in Europe andAmerica. His style, based during the 1970s onexperiments with sonorities and certain forms ofaleatoric music, has subsequently concentrated onrefined expressiveness in which conceptual aspectsassume particular significance. Throughout his career hehas received many important accolades including theNational Prize for Music, the Gran Premio Roma, andthe Bla Bartk and Koussevitzky Awards.

    Certain musical elements (intervallic, melodic,modal and also colour) from the Spanish musicaltradition remain constant over two decades in almost allVilla-Rojos works. In Concierto plateresco (1997) foroboe and string orchestra, these aspects take shapethrough reference to the Renaissance, one of the epochsof the greatest splendour not only in music but in allSpanish art. Composed as a single movement, theconcerto derives its inspiration from the architecturalstyle of the period known as plateresque (from platero,

    a silversmith), characterised by rich ornamentation. Asis true of architecture, the concept of ornamentation inthe concerto represents only an outward appearance,because ornamentation here is not antithetical tosubstance when in reality ornamentation and substancebecome one and the same. Stock examples of whatmight usually be regarded as ornamentation, such asfairly brief melodic and rhythmic gestures or simplemelodic embellishments, achieve here a kind ofcontinuum divided between soloist and orchestra, whichbrings about immense flexibility the density of themusic perpetually expanding and contracting, theinternal rhythm speeding up and slowing down, itsintensity increasing and decreasing, taking shapealtogether as a single discourse, the very substance ofthe music.

    Composed in 2004, the Serenata too finds referencepoints in the musical history of the past, whether longago or more recent. But here there are no directquotations, no shared indications or other ways ofrevealing the dialectic interplay between past andpresent. Villa-Rojos intention in this score is to shatterthat dialectic from within, using the characteristic,specific sound of a large string orchestra, those samesonorities that we hold in our memory as listeners,thanks to the predominant works of the repertoire. TheSerenata unfolds in a single line, but is divided intothree major sections. The first of these is an impulsiveallegro ritmico, the second a dreamy, delicate adagio,while the third returns to the original rhythmic impulsebut this time refined by the cantabile qualities of thesecond section. Drawing on tradition, La Serenatamaintains its characteristics of spontaneous, brilliant, orlight music, entirely different from the dramatictensions to be found in Concierto 2 and other works byVilla-Rojo. As such, it is ideally suited for thecircumstances in which it was written, a commission

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    Jess Villa-Rojo ist eine der dynamischsten Figuren inder aktuellen spanischen Musikszene. Mit seiner langenTtigkeit als Klarinettist und seiner Suche nach neuenklanglichen Mglichkeiten hat er spanische undauslndische Komponisten inspiriert, Dutzende neuerWerke fr sein Instrument und fr das EnsembleLaboratorio de Interpretacin Musical (LIM) zuschreiben, das er 1975 gegrndet hat und seither leitet.Die Ergebnisse seiner Studien, insbesondere auf demGebiet der Notation, hat er in verschiedenenPublikationen vorgestellt. Ferner hat er vielemusikalische Veranstaltungen organisiert. Dazu gehrenKonzertreihen seines Ensembles LIM (Madrid) sowie dasBBK-Festival fr Zeitgenssische Musik (Bilbao) unddas Internationale Festival von Alicante. berdies wirkteer fr einige Zeit als Direktor des Centro para la Difusinde la Msica Contempornea. Villa-Rojo wurde 1940 inBrihuega (in der zentralspanischen Provinz Guadalajara)geboren. Seine Ausbildung erfuhr er in Madrid und inItalien. Heute umfasst sein breitgefchertes uvre rundzweihundert Werke, die in Europa und Lateinamerikazum Teil gut bekannt sind. In den siebziger Jahrenberuhte sein Stil auf Klangexperimenten und bestimmtenaleatorischen Verfahren. In jngerer Zeit bedient er sicheiner zurckgenommeneren Kompositionsweise, und esentstand eine Musik, in der begriffliche Spiele vonbesonderem Belang sind. Im Laufe seiner Karriere hatVilla-Rojo viele Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter denspanischen Nationalpreis fr Musik, den Grand Prix vonRom, den Bla Bartk-Preis und den Kussewitzky-Preis.

    Fast alle Werke, die Villa-Rojo whrend der letztenzwei Jahrzehnte geschrieben hat, enthalten gewisseKonstanten, die aus der spanischen Tradition stammen.Einige dieser Elemente sind melodischer oder modalerNatur, andere grnden sich auf spezifische Intervalle oderFarben. In dem Concierto plateresco (1997) fr Oboe undStreichorchester werden diese durch das Prisma der

    Renaissance gefiltert, einen Hhepunkt der spanischenKultur- und Kunstgeschichte. Das einstzige Konzert istdurch einen Architekturstil jener Zeit inspiriert dendurch seine reiche Ornamentik charakterisiertenPlatereskstil, der an die Arbeit von Silberschmiedenerinnert (platero = Silberschmied). Wie in derArchitektur, so ist die Ornamentierung auch in demKonzert nur eine Erscheinung, und das nicht nur, weil sienicht im Gegensatz zu der Vorstellung von Substanzsteht, sondern weil es die Substanz ist. Versatzstckedessen, was man als Ornamentik kennt (recht kurzemelodisch-rhythmische Gesten, bisweilen einfacheMelismen) folgen aufeinander und erzeugen so einKontinuum, das zwischen Solo und Orchester aufgeteiltist und eine enorme Beweglichkeit mit sich bringt:Stndig vermindert oder vergrert sich der Dichtegrad,der innere Rhythmus wird schneller oder langsamer, dieIntensitt nimmt zu oder ab und so entsteht ein einzigerDiskurs, die eigentliche Substanz der Musik.

    Auch in der Serenata aus dem Jahre 2004 gibt esBeziehungen zur neueren oder lteren Musikgeschichte.Hier fehlen jedoch alle direkten Zitate ebenso wieAnspielungen oder sonstige Versuche, das dialektischeVerhltnis von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zuverstrken. Worauf Villa-Rojo in dieser Partitur stattdessen hinauswill, ist die Zerstrung dieser Dialektik voninnen heraus. Dazu benutzt er den charakteristischen,unmissverstndlichen Klang des groen Streich-orchesters, einen Klang, der sich im Laufe der Zeit durchein Repertoire berragender Werke ins Gedchtnis derHrer eingegraben hat. Die Serenata entwickelt sich ineinem einzigen Bogen, innerhalb dessen man allerdingsdrei groe Abschnitte erkennen kann. Der erste ist einimpulsives, rhythmisches Allegro, der zweite eindelikates, trumerisches Adagio, und der dritte kehrt zumrhythmischen Impuls des Anfangs zurck, der jetzt durchdas liedartige Adagio zart getnt ist. Die funkelnde

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    from the Queen Sofa Chamber Orchestra to celebratetheir twentieth anniversary.

    Concierto 2, for cello (presented here in a revisedversion with string orchestra), is of tremendoussignificance in Jess Villa-Rojos development. Dated1983, the aesthetic principles and stylistic character-istics that would distinguish all his subsequent work uptill now, can be found clearly defined. The concertoconsists of three movements where the relationshipbetween soloist and orchestra is that of mutualindependence with substantial amounts of instrumentalvirtuosity. This should not, however, be seen as justdemonstrating the soloists attributes but rather as ameans of developing to the full the musical material

    inseparable from the instrument itself. This entirelyidiomatic cello writing is what unerringly guides themusic, like a compass, from beginning to end,containing within its depths an expressive content thatVilla-Rojo desired to release. The concerto is full ofdramatic tension, as if the notes actually sounding co-exist in the score with something more profound, feltbut not heard, tension which represents an impulse forthe music to communicate on its own terms over andabove the composers creative intentions.

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    Translation: Graham Wade

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  • Orquesta de Cmara Reina Sofa

    In 1983 Her Majesty Queen Sofa allowed her name to be used for a group ofmusicians who made their dbut on 28th May 1984 at the Madrid Teatro Real underthe title the Chamber Orchestra of Queen Sofa. Described by the guitarist NarcisoYepes on the occasion of its first visit to Japan as the true chamber musicambassador of Spain, the ensemble has a wide-ranging repertoire ranging from Bachand Handel to Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Britten. The orchestra has paidparticular attention to Spanish music, with works such as the symphonies of CarlosBaguer (1768-1808), awarded the Ministry of Culture Premio Nacional del Disco in1986, and of composers including Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, JoaqunTurina, Eduardo Toldr, Fernando Sor, Joaqun Rodrigo, Xavier Montsalvatge, Luisde Pablo, Carlos Cruz de Castro, Claudio Prieto, David del Puerto, Toms Marco,Jos Garca Romn, Jorge Fernndez Guerra, Cristbal Halffter, Manuel Castillo,Jos Ramn Encinar, Carmelo Bernaola, Alfredo Aracil, Antn Garca Abril, andJess Villa-Rojo, among others. The orchestra has performed a number of worksdedicated to it and has been invited to leading festivals, theatres and concert venues,including the Milan Teatro alla Scala, the Lisbon Teatro San Carlo, Barcelona Palau

    de la Msica, Tokyo Nissay Theatre, Madrid Teatro Real, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, theMadrid Auditorio Nacional de Msica, the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro, the Teatro Manzoni in Milan and halls andtheatres in Zurich, Venice, Bern, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo. There have been collaborationsover the years with the most distinguished Spanish and international musicians, soloists and conductors.

    Nicols Chumachenco

    The violinist Nicols Chumachenco, of Russian descent, was born in Poland andbrought up in Argentina. He completed his studies as a violinist in the UnitedStates with the legendary Jascha Heifetz at the University of South California andwith Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute, making his European dbuts withawards at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and the Brussels QueenElisabeth, followed by invitations from leading conductors to appear in majorworks of the repertoire. He has appeared with Wolfgang Sawallisch, ZubinMehta, Ferdinand Leitner, Vaclav Smetaek, Peter Maag and Rudolf Kempe,

    among others, and collaborated regularly with Yehudi Menuhin at the Gstaad Festival. He has appeared in chambermusic, notably as first violin of the Zurich Quartet, with which he has given concerts in Europe and the Americas.His recordings include the two great monuments of music for solo violin, Bachs Sonatas and Partitas and theCaprices of Paganini. He is Professor of Violin at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, and since 1990 has served asdirector/soloist of the Queen Sofa Chamber Orchestra.

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    Hansjrg Schellenberger

    The oboist Hansjrg Schellenberger was born in 1948 into a family that encouraged his musicalproclivities from an early age. At the age of six he began to play the recorder and by the age of tenwas showing great enthusiasm for the performance of Baroque music and for composition. He beganhis study of the oboe at the age of thirteen, winning a German youth competition in 1965 and firstprize as the best conductor at the Interlochen Music Camp in America. At the age of seventeen hebegan his study of the oboe, conducting and mathematics in Munich and in Detmold. After successin various competitions, including the ARD in Munich in 1972, he started his career in 1971 with theWest German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, serving as principal oboe from 1980. He haswon an international reputation as an oboist, and has collaborated with the most distinguished

    conductors, including Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Mara Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, and James Levine.In chamber music his activities have centred on the Vienna-Berlin Ensemble. He established, with players from theBerlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Haydn Ensemble, of which he is artistic director, since 1991 playing music written byHaydn during his first years with the Esterhzys. As a member of the Berlin Philharmonic he played under leadingconductors and in 1994 began his career as a conductor, collaborating with the orchestras including the JerusalemSymphony Orchestras, Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra of the Comunidad de Madrid,among others. He has maintained a strong interest in contemporary music and has recorded with DGG, Denon, SonyClassical, Orfeo and other companies. In some of these he has collaborated with his wife, the harpist Margit-AnnaSss, winning the German Schallplatten-Preis in 1999. In 1997, together with his wife, he set up his own recordingcompany, Campanella Musica, to record the repertoire that had seemed most significant to him duing his entire career.

    Asier Polo

    The cellist Asier Polo was born in Bilbao and studied with E. Pascu, Maria Kliegel and I.Moniguetti. He won first prizes for cello and for chamber music in the ConcursosNacionales de Juventudes Musicales in 1987-1989. He has appeared as a soloist with mostSpanish orchestras, including a concert tour to South America with the Spanish NationalOrchestra under Frhbeck de Burgos. He has collaborated with leading orchestras inFrance, the Czech Republic, the United States and Germany, and with conductors ofinternational distinction, appearing at various international festivals. He has collaborated

    with well known collegaues, including J.M.Colom, Grard Causs, the Janek Quartet, and with Alfredo Kraus inthe later years of the latters career, appearing at the Maggio Fiorentino, Covent Garden, the Zurich Tonhalle andthe Vienna Musikverein. He has recorded for Claves, RTVE, Marco Polo and Naxos, with works that includeconcertos by Usandizaga, Villa-Rojo, Escudero, and Rodrigo, among others. Composers including G. Ercoreca,Luis de Pablo and Antn Garca Abril have dedicated works to him. He combines an interest in new music with acommand of classical repertoire, from Bachs Cello Suites to the contemporary. Prizes include the Ojo Crtico ofSpanish National Radio in 2002 and the 2004 Premio Fundacin C.E.O.E. for Musical Interpretation. He made asuccessful dbut at the Weill Recital Hall in New York, and enjoys a busy international career. He is a professor atthe Centro Superior de Msica del Pas Vasco. Asier Polo plays a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona 1689),acquired with the collaboration of Banesto.

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  • Orquesta de Cmara Reina Sofa

    In 1983 Her Majesty Queen Sofa allowed her name to be used for a group ofmusicians who made their dbut on 28th May 1984 at the Madrid Teatro Real underthe title the Chamber Orchestra of Queen Sofa. Described by the guitarist NarcisoYepes on the occasion of its first visit to Japan as the true chamber musicambassador of Spain, the ensemble has a wide-ranging repertoire ranging from Bachand Handel to Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Britten. The orchestra has paidparticular attention to Spanish music, with works such as the symphonies of CarlosBaguer (1768-1808), awarded the Ministry of Culture Premio Nacional del Disco in1986, and of composers including Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, JoaqunTurina, Eduardo Toldr, Fernando Sor, Joaqun Rodrigo, Xavier Montsalvatge, Luisde Pablo, Carlos Cruz de Castro, Claudio Prieto, David del Puerto, Toms Marco,Jos Garca Romn, Jorge Fernndez Guerra, Cristbal Halffter, Manuel Castillo,Jos Ramn Encinar, Carmelo Bernaola, Alfredo Aracil, Antn Garca Abril, andJess Villa-Rojo, among others. The orchestra has performed a number of worksdedicated to it and has been invited to leading festivals, theatres and concert venues,including the Milan Teatro alla Scala, the Lisbon Teatro San Carlo, Barcelona Palau

    de la Msica, Tokyo Nissay Theatre, Madrid Teatro Real, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, theMadrid Auditorio Nacional de Msica, the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro, the Teatro Manzoni in Milan and halls andtheatres in Zurich, Venice, Bern, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo. There have been collaborationsover the years with the most distinguished Spanish and international musicians, soloists and conductors.

    Nicols Chumachenco

    The violinist Nicols Chumachenco, of Russian descent, was born in Poland andbrought up in Argentina. He completed his studies as a violinist in the UnitedStates with the legendary Jascha Heifetz at the University of South California andwith Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute, making his European dbuts withawards at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and the Brussels QueenElisabeth, followed by invitations from leading conductors to appear in majorworks of the repertoire. He has appeared with Wolfgang Sawallisch, ZubinMehta, Ferdinand Leitner, Vaclav Smetaek, Peter Maag and Rudolf Kempe,

    among others, and collaborated regularly with Yehudi Menuhin at the Gstaad Festival. He has appeared in chambermusic, notably as first violin of the Zurich Quartet, with which he has given concerts in Europe and the Americas.His recordings include the two great monuments of music for solo violin, Bachs Sonatas and Partitas and theCaprices of Paganini. He is Professor of Violin at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, and since 1990 has served asdirector/soloist of the Queen Sofa Chamber Orchestra.

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    Hansjrg Schellenberger

    The oboist Hansjrg Schellenberger was born in 1948 into a family that encouraged his musicalproclivities from an early age. At the age of six he began to play the recorder and by the age of tenwas showing great enthusiasm for the performance of Baroque music and for composition. He beganhis study of the oboe at the age of thirteen, winning a German youth competition in 1965 and firstprize as the best conductor at the Interlochen Music Camp in America. At the age of seventeen hebegan his study of the oboe, conducting and mathematics in Munich and in Detmold. After successin various competitions, including the ARD in Munich in 1972, he started his career in 1971 with theWest German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, serving as principal oboe from 1980. He haswon an international reputation as an oboist, and has collaborated with the most distinguished

    conductors, including Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Mara Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, and James Levine.In chamber music his activities have centred on the Vienna-Berlin Ensemble. He established, with players from theBerlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Haydn Ensemble, of which he is artistic director, since 1991 playing music written byHaydn during his first years with the Esterhzys. As a member of the Berlin Philharmonic he played under leadingconductors and in 1994 began his career as a conductor, collaborating with the orchestras including the JerusalemSymphony Orchestras, Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra of the Comunidad de Madrid,among others. He has maintained a strong interest in contemporary music and has recorded with DGG, Denon, SonyClassical, Orfeo and other companies. In some of these he has collaborated with his wife, the harpist Margit-AnnaSss, winning the German Schallplatten-Preis in 1999. In 1997, together with his wife, he set up his own recordingcompany, Campanella Musica, to record the repertoire that had seemed most significant to him duing his entire career.

    Asier Polo

    The cellist Asier Polo was born in Bilbao and studied with E. Pascu, Maria Kliegel and I.Moniguetti. He won first prizes for cello and for chamber music in the ConcursosNacionales de Juventudes Musicales in 1987-1989. He has appeared as a soloist with mostSpanish orchestras, including a concert tour to South America with the Spanish NationalOrchestra under Frhbeck de Burgos. He has collaborated with leading orchestras inFrance, the Czech Republic, the United States and Germany, and with conductors ofinternational distinction, appearing at various international festivals. He has collaborated

    with well known collegaues, including J.M.Colom, Grard Causs, the Janek Quartet, and with Alfredo Kraus inthe later years of the latters career, appearing at the Maggio Fiorentino, Covent Garden, the Zurich Tonhalle andthe Vienna Musikverein. He has recorded for Claves, RTVE, Marco Polo and Naxos, with works that includeconcertos by Usandizaga, Villa-Rojo, Escudero, and Rodrigo, among others. Composers including G. Ercoreca,Luis de Pablo and Antn Garca Abril have dedicated works to him. He combines an interest in new music with acommand of classical repertoire, from Bachs Cello Suites to the contemporary. Prizes include the Ojo Crtico ofSpanish National Radio in 2002 and the 2004 Premio Fundacin C.E.O.E. for Musical Interpretation. He made asuccessful dbut at the Weill Recital Hall in New York, and enjoys a busy international career. He is a professor atthe Centro Superior de Msica del Pas Vasco. Asier Polo plays a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona 1689),acquired with the collaboration of Banesto.

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    Jess Villa-Rojo ist eine der dynamischsten Figuren inder aktuellen spanischen Musikszene. Mit seiner langenTtigkeit als Klarinettist und seiner Suche nach neuenklanglichen Mglichkeiten hat er spanische undauslndische Komponisten inspiriert, Dutzende neuerWerke fr sein Instrument und fr das EnsembleLaboratorio de Interpretacin Musical (LIM) zuschreiben, das er 1975 gegrndet hat und seither leitet.Die Ergebnisse seiner Studien, insbesondere auf demGebiet der Notation, hat er in verschiedenenPublikationen vorgestellt. Ferner hat er vielemusikalische Veranstaltungen organisiert. Dazu gehrenKonzertreihen seines Ensembles LIM (Madrid) sowie dasBBK-Festival fr Zeitgenssische Musik (Bilbao) unddas Internationale Festival von Alicante. berdies wirkteer fr einige Zeit als Direktor des Centro para la Difusinde la Msica Contempornea. Villa-Rojo wurde 1940 inBrihuega (in der zentralspanischen Provinz Guadalajara)geboren. Seine Ausbildung erfuhr er in Madrid und inItalien. Heute umfasst sein breitgefchertes uvre rundzweihundert Werke, die in Europa und Lateinamerikazum Teil gut bekannt sind. In den siebziger Jahrenberuhte sein Stil auf Klangexperimenten und bestimmtenaleatorischen Verfahren. In jngerer Zeit bedient er sicheiner zurckgenommeneren Kompositionsweise, und esentstand eine Musik, in der begriffliche Spiele vonbesonderem Belang sind. Im Laufe seiner Karriere hatVilla-Rojo viele Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter denspanischen Nationalpreis fr Musik, den Grand Prix vonRom, den Bla Bartk-Preis und den Kussewitzky-Preis.

    Fast alle Werke, die Villa-Rojo whrend der letztenzwei Jahrzehnte geschrieben hat, enthalten gewisseKonstanten, die aus der spanischen Tradition stammen.Einige dieser Elemente sind melodischer oder modalerNatur, andere grnden sich auf spezifische Intervalle oderFarben. In dem Concierto plateresco (1997) fr Oboe undStreichorchester werden diese durch das Prisma der

    Renaissance gefiltert, einen Hhepunkt der spanischenKultur- und Kunstgeschichte. Das einstzige Konzert istdurch einen Architekturstil jener Zeit inspiriert dendurch seine reiche Ornamentik charakterisiertenPlatereskstil, der an die Arbeit von Silberschmiedenerinnert (platero = Silberschmied). Wie in derArchitektur, so ist die Ornamentierung auch in demKonzert nur eine Erscheinung, und das nicht nur, weil sienicht im Gegensatz zu der Vorstellung von Substanzsteht, sondern weil es die Substanz ist. Versatzstckedessen, was man als Ornamentik kennt (recht kurzemelodisch-rhythmische Gesten, bisweilen einfacheMelismen) folgen aufeinander und erzeugen so einKontinuum, das zwischen Solo und Orchester aufgeteiltist und eine enorme Beweglichkeit mit sich bringt:Stndig vermindert oder vergrert sich der Dichtegrad,der innere Rhythmus wird schneller oder langsamer, dieIntensitt nimmt zu oder ab und so entsteht ein einzigerDiskurs, die eigentliche Substanz der Musik.

    Auch in der Serenata aus dem Jahre 2004 gibt esBeziehungen zur neueren oder lteren Musikgeschichte.Hier fehlen jedoch alle direkten Zitate ebenso wieAnspielungen oder sonstige Versuche, das dialektischeVerhltnis von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zuverstrken. Worauf Villa-Rojo in dieser Partitur stattdessen hinauswill, ist die Zerstrung dieser Dialektik voninnen heraus. Dazu benutzt er den charakteristischen,unmissverstndlichen Klang des groen Streich-orchesters, einen Klang, der sich im Laufe der Zeit durchein Repertoire berragender Werke ins Gedchtnis derHrer eingegraben hat. Die Serenata entwickelt sich ineinem einzigen Bogen, innerhalb dessen man allerdingsdrei groe Abschnitte erkennen kann. Der erste ist einimpulsives, rhythmisches Allegro, der zweite eindelikates, trumerisches Adagio, und der dritte kehrt zumrhythmischen Impuls des Anfangs zurck, der jetzt durchdas liedartige Adagio zart getnt ist. Die funkelnde

    Jess Villa-Rojo (geb. 1940)

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    from the Queen Sofa Chamber Orchestra to celebratetheir twentieth anniversary.

    Concierto 2, for cello (presented here in a revisedversion with string orchestra), is of tremendoussignificance in Jess Villa-Rojos development. Dated1983, the aesthetic principles and stylistic character-istics that would distinguish all his subsequent work uptill now, can be found clearly defined. The concertoconsists of three movements where the relationshipbetween soloist and orchestra is that of mutualindependence with substantial amounts of instrumentalvirtuosity. This should not, however, be seen as justdemonstrating the soloists attributes but rather as ameans of developing to the full the musical material

    inseparable from the instrument itself. This entirelyidiomatic cello writing is what unerringly guides themusic, like a compass, from beginning to end,containing within its depths an expressive content thatVilla-Rojo desired to release. The concerto is full ofdramatic tension, as if the notes actually sounding co-exist in the score with something more profound, feltbut not heard, tension which represents an impulse forthe music to communicate on its own terms over andabove the composers creative intentions.

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    Spontaneitt hat etwas Traditionelles: Es ist ein leichtesStck oder zumindest ein solches, das weit von derdramatischen Spannung des Concierto 2 und andererWerke aus Villa-Rojos Feder entfernt ist. Als solchespasst es perfekt zu dem Anlass, fr den es geschriebenwurde: als Auftrag zum 20-jhrigen Bestehen desKnigin Sofia-Kammerorchesters.

    Das Concierto 2 fr Violoncello (hier in derrevidierten Fassung mit Streichorchester) ist ein Schls-selwerk in Villa-Rojos kompositorischer Laufbahn. Esentstand 1983, und man findet darin die smtlichensthetischen Prinzipien und stilistischen Konstantenausgebildet, die das Schaffen des Komponisten bis zumheutigen Tage kennzeichnen. Das Werk besteht aus dreiStzen, und die Beziehung zwischen Solist und Orchesterzeigt sich als eine komplementre Autonomie mit groenPortionen instrumentaler Virtuositt. Darin sollte man

    allerdings nicht das Mittel sehen, die Qualitten desSolisten herauszustreichen, sondern vielmehr eineMethode zur umfnglichsten Ausbeutung jenes Materials,das untrennbar mit dem Instrument verbunden ist. Diesedurch und durch cellistische Musik leitet die Musik vonAnfang bis zum Ende wie ein Kompass: Tief im Innernliegt der Ausdrucksgehalt, den Villa-Rojo freisetzen will.Wenngleich das Werk von unterdrckter dramatischerSpannung ist als ob die Tne, die wir wirklich hren, inder Partitur neben einer tieferliegenden Musik bestnden,die nicht zu hren, sondern nur zu fhlen ist , sprichtdiese Spannung nicht von den expressiven Absichten desKomponisten, sondern vom Wunsch der Musik selbst zurKommunikation.

    Carlos VillasolDeutsche Fassung: Cris Posslac

    Jess Villa-Rojo es una de las personalidades msdinmicas de la msica espaola contempornea. Sularga labor como clarinetista y sus estudios sobre losnuevos procedimientos sonoros de su instrumento hanestimulado la creacin de decenas de obras decompositores espaoles y extranjeros, estrenadas por lmismo y por el Laboratorio de Interpretacin Musical(LIM), que fundara y dirige desde 1975. Sus trabajoscomo investigador, especialmente en el terreno de lagrafa musical, han sido sistematizados en variaspublicaciones. Como animador cultural, ha organizado ycoordinado multitud de eventos musicales, entre elloslos ciclos del LIM (Madrid), Festival BBK/MsicasActuales (Bilbao) y el Festival Internacional de

    Alicante, y dirigido el Centro para la Difusin de laMsica Contempornea. Nacido en Brihuega(Guadalajara) en 1940, y formado en Madrid e Italia, suobra de creacin se acerca a los dos centenares de ttulosencuadrados en todos los gneros, que han sidoampliamente divulgados en Europa y Amrica. Suestilo, que parte en los aos setenta de la especulacinsonora y de ciertas formas de aleatoriedad, se concentraposteriormente en depuradas expresiones en donde eljuego conceptual cobra particular relevancia. Haobtenido a lo largo de su carrera importantes galardonesy reconocimientos, como el Premio Nacional deMsica, el Gran Premio Roma, el Bla Bartk o elKoussevitzky.

    Jess Villa-Rojo (nacido 1940)

    Concierto plateresco Serenata Concierto 2

    Jess Villa-Rojo is one of the most dynamic figures ofSpanish contemporary music. His long endeavour as aclarinettist and his study of new concepts of thesonorities of his instrument, have inspired the creationof dozens of new works in Spain and abroad, premiredeither by himself or by the Laboratory for InterpretingMusic (LIM), the ensemble he founded in 1975 and hasdirected ever since. His research activities, especially inthe area of graphic notation, have been explored in anumber of publications. As a cultural director he hasorganized and co-ordinated a host of musical events,among them programmes for the LIM (Madrid), theBBK/Contemporary Music Festival (Bilbao) and theAlicante International Festival, as well as managing theCentre for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music.

    Born in Brihuega, Guadalajara, in 1940, andeducated in Madrid and Italy, Villa-Rojoscompositions, almost two hundred works, covering allgenres, have been widely performed in Europe andAmerica. His style, based during the 1970s onexperiments with sonorities and certain forms ofaleatoric music, has subsequently concentrated onrefined expressiveness in which conceptual aspectsassume particular significance. Throughout his career hehas received many important accolades including theNational Prize for Music, the Gran Premio Roma, andthe Bla Bartk and Koussevitzky Awards.

    Certain musical elements (intervallic, melodic,modal and also colour) from the Spanish musicaltradition remain constant over two decades in almost allVilla-Rojos works. In Concierto plateresco (1997) foroboe and string orchestra, these aspects take shapethrough reference to the Renaissance, one of the epochsof the greatest splendour not only in music but in allSpanish art. Composed as a single movement, theconcerto derives its inspiration from the architecturalstyle of the period known as plateresque (from platero,

    a silversmith), characterised by rich ornamentation. Asis true of architecture, the concept of ornamentation inthe concerto represents only an outward appearance,because ornamentation here is not antithetical tosubstance when in reality ornamentation and substancebecome one and the same. Stock examples of whatmight usually be regarded as ornamentation, such asfairly brief melodic and rhythmic gestures or simplemelodic embellishments, achieve here a kind ofcontinuum divided between soloist and orchestra, whichbrings about immense flexibility the density of themusic perpetually expanding and contracting, theinternal rhythm speeding up and slowing down, itsintensity increasing and decreasing, taking shapealtogether as a single discourse, the very substance ofthe music.

    Composed in 2004, the Serenata too finds referencepoints in the musical history of the past, whether longago or more recent. But here there are no directquotations, no shared indications or other ways ofrevealing the dialectic interplay between past andpresent. Villa-Rojos intention in this score is to shatterthat dialectic from within, using the characteristic,specific sound of a large string orchestra, those samesonorities that we hold in our memory as listeners,thanks to the predominant works of the repertoire. TheSerenata unfolds in a single line, but is divided intothree major sections. The first of these is an impulsiveallegro ritmico, the second a dreamy, delicate adagio,while the third returns to the original rhythmic impulsebut this time refined by the cantabile qualities of thesecond section. Drawing on tradition, La Serenatamaintains its characteristics of spontaneous, brilliant, orlight music, entirely different from the dramatictensions to be found in Concierto 2 and other works byVilla-Rojo. As such, it is ideally suited for thecircumstances in which it was written, a commission

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    Hansjrg Schellenberger, Oboe Asier Polo, Cello

    Orquesta de Cmara Reina Sofa Chumachenco

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    La presencia de ciertas constantes intervlicas,meldicas, modales y tambin de color, de la tradicinmusical espaola es habitual en casi todos los trabajosde Villa-Rojo desde hace ms de dos dcadas. En elConcierto plateresco para oboe y orquesta de cuerdas,de 1997, toman forma posando su mirada en elRenacimiento, que es una de las pocas de mayoresplendor no slo de la msica, sino de todo el artehispano. Es al conocido en la arquitectura de aquelperiodo como estilo plateresco al que aluden estospentagramas, que se desarrollan en un nicomovimiento. Como en l, el concepto de ornamentacinconstituye tan slo una apariencia, porque no solamenteno se opone al de sustancialidad, sino que en realidad esella misma. Lugares comunes de lo que se ha venidoconociendo como ornamentacin gestos meldico-rtmicos ms o menos breves, a veces simplesmelismas, logran crear aqu un continuo, que repartidoentre el solista y la orquesta supone un prodigio deflexibilidad su densidad se ensancha y se encogeconstantemente, su ritmo interno se acelera y decelera,su intensidad crece y decrece, y se configura como elnico discurso, como la sustancia misma de la msica.

    Compuesta en 2004, en la Serenata tambin puedeencontrarse puntos de referencia con el pasado de lahistoria musical, sea ms remoto o ms reciente. Pero nohay citas, guios de complicidad ni cualquier otra formade potenciar el juego dialctico pasado/presente. Porquelo que Villa-Rojo persigue en esta partitura esjustamente romper esa dialctica desde dentro, desde lasonoridad propia, inconfundible, de la gran orquesta decuerdas. Esa misma sonoridad que todos tenemos ennuestra memoria de oyentes, gracias a las pginasseeras del repertorio. Se desarrolla en un nico trazo,pero pueden seguirse en ella tres grandes secciones. As,la primera responde a un impulsivo allegro rtmico; la

    segunda, a un soador y delicadsimo adagio, paravolver de nuevo en la tercera al impulso rtmico, perotamizado esta vez por la cantabilidad del segundo. De latradicin conserva igualmente la Serenata su carcter demsica espontnea, brillante, ligera o cuando menosajena a las tensiones dramticas que encontramos en elConcierto 2 y en otros ttulos de su catlogo, comocorresponde a la circunstancia para la que fue escrita, elencargo de la Orquesta de Cmara Reina Sofa paracelebrar su vigsimo aniversario.

    El Concierto 2, para violonchelo recogido aqu ensu segunda versin, con orquesta de cuerdas , es unaobra de trascendental importancia en la trayectoria deJess Villa-Rojo. Data de 1983, y en ella quedan yadefinidos los principios estticos y las constantesestilsticas que marcarn toda su produccin ulterior,hasta hoy mismo. Consta de tres movimientos y larelacin solista/orquesta es la de sendos todosautnomos y complementarios con altas dosis devirtuosismo instrumental. No debe entenderse sinembargo esta cualidad como medio de exhibicin de lascualidades del primer atril, sino como la explotacinhasta las ltimas consecuencias de una materia musicalinseparable del instrumento. Esa materia ciento porciento violonchelstica es pues la que guaimplacablemente, como una brjula, el discurso sonorode principio a fin, y guarda en sus fondos un contenidoexpresivo que es el que Villa-Rojo ha querido rescatar.De indudable tensin dramtica, honda y sorda como sien la partitura convivieran la msica que explcitamentesuena y otra ms profunda, que no llega a orse pero quese siente, de ella no se deduce una voluntad expresivaprevista por parte del compositor, sino la voluntad deque la msica se exprese a s misma.

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  • Jess Villa-Rojo is one of the most dynamic figures on the Spanish music scene today. Almost allVilla-Rojos works of the last twenty years or more feature certain constants originating fromSpanish musical tradition, some melodic or modal, others based on specific intervals or colours.In the Concierto plateresco, he filters these through the prism of the Renaissance, a high-point inSpanish cultural and artistic history. Written in 2004 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary ofthe Reina Sofa Chamber Orchestra, the sparkling Serenata too has points of reference in musicalhistory, both past and present. Concierto 2, for cello here given in its revised version, with stringorchestra is a key work in Villa-Rojos compositional career. Dating from 1983, the work isnotable for its instrumental virtuosity and pent-up dramatic tension. DDD

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    This recording was made possible thanks to sponsorship from Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha

    Recorded at Musigrama, Madrid, Spain, on 6th May, 2006 Producer: Jess Villa-NovarroEngineer: Pepe Loeches Publisher: EMCE, Madrid Booklet notes: Carlos Villasol

    Cover image: Friso plateresco, La Piedad Church, Guadalajara, Spain

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