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Golijov: Ainadamar

Margarita Xirgu (Dawn Upshaw), Federico García Lorca (Kelley O'Connor), Nuria (Jessica Rivera), Ruiz Alonso (Arresting Officer) (Jesus Montoya), José Tripaldi (Guard) (Eduardo Chama), A Teacher (Sean Mayer), A Bullfighter (Robb Askolf), Two Voices (Anne-Carolyn Bird) & Sindhu Chandrasekaran

Atlanta...

Ainadamar has enjoyed success on stage but here proves a real 'opera of the imagination'. It is dazzlingly presented: guitars and percussion, Jesús Montoya's flamenco improvisations and Kelley... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Aug 2006
Catalogue No: 4776165
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 80 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

September 2006

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Excerpt, Golijov: Ainadamar

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Jeremy Flower (sound effects)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2005-11-15
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Atlanta

Water and Horse Prelude

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Golijov: Ainadamar / Act 1: Mariana

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Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Jesús Montoya (singer), Kelley O'Connor (mezzo-soprano), Norman Mackenzie (chorus master), Jessica Rivera (soprano)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ladies of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2005-11-15
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Atlanta

1. Balada

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2. Mariana, tus ojos

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3. Bar Albor de Madrid

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4. Desde mi ventana (Aria a la estatua de Mariana)

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5. Muerte a Caballo

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Golijov: Ainadamar / Act 2: Federico

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Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Kelley O'Connor (mezzo-soprano), Jesús Montoya (singer), Jessica Rivera (soprano), Robb Asklof (tenor), Sean Mayer (tenor), Norman Mackenzie (chorus master), Eduardo Chama (bass-baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ladies of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2005-11-15
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Atlanta

1. Balada

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2. Quiero arrancarme los ojos

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3. A La Habana

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4. Quiero cantar entre las explosiones

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5. Arresto

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6. La Fuente de las Lágrimas

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7. Confesión

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Excerpt, Golijov: Ainadamar

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2005-11-15
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Atlanta

Interludio de Balazos y Lamento por la Muerte de Federico

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Golijov: Ainadamar / Act 3: Margarita

Work length22:26

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Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Kelley O'Connor (mezzo-soprano), Norman Mackenzie (chorus master), Jessica Rivera (soprano)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ladies of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2005-11-15
Recording Venue: Symphony Hall, Atlanta

1. Balada

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2. De mi fuente tu emerges

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3. Tome su mano

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4. Crepúsculo delirante

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5. Doy mi sangre

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6. Yo soy la libertad

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August 2006

Ainadamar has enjoyed success on stage but here proves a real 'opera of the imagination'. It is dazzlingly presented: guitars and percussion, Jesús Montoya's flamenco improvisations and Kelley O'Connor's startling low mezzo as the poet, Dawn Upshaw's brilliance and tonal generosity as Xirgu, all rest on glowing orchestral colours and cunning production.

2010

Osvaldo Golijov has based this dramatic work around the life and death (at the hands of a Franco-ist Civil War firing squad) of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. Ainadamar (the 'fountain of tears', the Moorish name for the site near Grenada where Lorca died in 1936) is neither history nor fiction, rather a symbolic account of reactions to key moments in the poet's life.
The text, translated back into Spanish by the composer, suits Golijov's eclectic and anarchic mix of musics. At the start you hear low pedal notes similar to those that launch Das Rheingold or Also sprach Zarathustra. Within minutes we are closer to 'prog-rock' tracks of the 1970s like Led Zeppelin's Kashmir – a meeting of classical strings and heavy-metal beat – or the soundscapes, featuring combinations of riffs and sound effects (here horses' hooves or, chillingly in context, echoing gunshots), of Roger Waters. From a vocal point of view the score is deeply stained by alternations of the Jewish chants of Golijov's mother religion, the cante jondo of the flamenco of Lorca's homeland, or the Argentinian tangos worked up to symphonic proportions by Piazzolla and his contemporaries. American minimalism (of the John Adams variety) has left its mark too in the obsessive use of repetitive cells or phrases.
The effect is compelling: these words and scenes cry out for music, and Golijov delivers in full measure. While the whole is anchored to a subject of emotional power – Lorca, freakishly like Pushkin, almost seemed to anticipate and prepare his own fate – the lack of a conventional narrative is a great plus. Like the controversial Mass of Leonard Bernstein, Ainadamar is part lament and part celebration, an action of the mind rather than of dramatic events. The comfortable- sounding recording originates in performances by the characteristically adventurous Roberto Spano and the Atlanta SO; not all the cast are as famous as Golijov's champion Dawn Upshaw but they partner her well in few-holdsbarred commitment.

September 2006

Osvaldo Golijov has caped his Pasión…and 'cantata' Ayre… with an opera-fusion based around the life and death (at the hands of a Franco-ist Civil War firing squad) of the Spanish poet Federico Garciá Lorca. …these words and scenes cry out for music, and Golijov delivers in full measure. While the whole is anchored to a subject of emotional power - Lorca, freakishly like Pushkin, almost seemed to anticipate and prepare his own fate - the lack of a conventional narrative is a great plus. ...not all the cast are as famous as Golijov's champion Dawn Upshaw but they partner her well in few-holds-barred commitment.

Golijov: Ainadamar

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