| Naxos | Born in Spain in 1933, Leonardo Balada became a composition student at the Juilliard School of Music in America, and has since spent much of his life in the United States. Rejecting serial techniques created by the Second Viennese School of composers, yet equally opposed to neo-classicism, Balada has fashioned a personal style of modernism. He has been strongly influenced by Catalan folk music, and it is that source that provides the thematic material for his virtuoso Violin Concerto. That inspiration continues in the Catalan dance, the Sardana, with Balada finding additional folk material in Ireland and Latvia for the surrealistic score, Folk Dreams. The highly festive mood for Fantasias Sonoras (Fantasies in Sound) came in response to a commission for a work to mark the opening of the Benedum Center for Performing Arts in Pittsburgh. |
| Disc No: 8.554708 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Balada - Violin Concerto | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Leonardo Balada | Violin Concerto No. 1 | Barcelona Symphony Orchestra - Matthias Aeschbacher Andrés Cárdenes, violin | ||
| Leonardo Balada | Folk Dreams | |||
| Leonardo Balada | Sardana | |||
| Leonardo Balada | Fantasías Sonoras |