(2007) Leonardo Balada: TORQUEMADA

(2007) Leonardo Balada: TORQUEMADA
  • Artist-Title-Year
    (2007) Leonardo Balada: TORQUEMADA
  • Label Release No.
    New World Records NW80442
  • Availability

    Commercially available as CD or download

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Credits

Credits: Riccardo Schulz, Technical producer; Riccardo Schulz and Raymond Chick, engineering (3); Paul Newman, engineer (1); Michal Farrow, engineer (2); Pittsburgh Digital Recording and Editing Co, digital editing and transfer; Leonardo Balada, composer.

Artist notes

This recording was made possible from the NEA and the Department of Music, Carnegie Mellon University

Critic reception

“Transparencies of Chopin's First Ballade, for solo piano, is a trip in both drug-world usage and distance covered between one of Romanticism's tenderest melodies and Balada's untoward vehicle. To witness this behemoth striding its way to the Chopin's initial utterance is worth the price of admission. I must certainly single out Anthony di Bonaventura's performance as virtuoso-secure and apt.” Mike Silverton

This article originally appeared in Issue 17:4 (Mar/Apr 1994) of Fanfare Magazine.

Tracks

1. Concerto for piano, winds & percussion; 2. Sonata for Ten Winds; 3. Torquemada; 4. Transparency of Chopin’s First Ballade

Recording info

Recording locations, dates:

  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1992;
  2. Carnegie Hall, New York City, April 5, 1974
  3. Celebration Studios, New York City, May 6, 1981
  4. unknown

, , orchestra/ensemble (1); Robert Page, conductor (1); Harry Franklin, piano (2); Carnegie Mellon Concert Winds, Ensemble

Genre
Avante-Garde
Country
Spain
Artist
​​​​​​​Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Ensemble
Carnegie Mellon University Concert Choir
Carnegie Mellon Concert Winds
Personnel
Camille Kowash, soprano (1); Dominic Rossi, countertenor (1); Dillon McCartney, tenor (1); Stephen Totter, baritone (1); Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Ensemble, Carnegie Mellon University Concert Choir, orchestra/ensemble (1); Robert Page, conductor (1); Harry Franklin, piano (2); Carnegie Mellon Concert Winds, Ensemble (2); Richard Strange, conductor (2); Karl Kraber, flute (3); Jerry Kirkbride, clarinet (3); Gerard Reuter, oboe (3); Raymond Mase, trumpet (3); John Aley, trumpet (3); David Wakefield, French horn (3); Ronald Borror, trombone (3); David Jolley, French horn (3); Robert Biddlecome, bass trombone (3); Jane Taylor, bassoon (3); Anthony di Bonaventura, piano (4).