Still a neglected work, Julián Orbón’s Partita No. 4 for piano and orchestra is one of the most important piano and orchestra works from the Spanish repertoire, and receives here a superb performance from Noelia Rodiles and the Oviedo Filarmonía under Lucas Macías’ baton. The album is completed with the first recording of Manuel Martínez Burgos’ concerto for piano and orchestra, ‘Cloches’. Based on the expressive possibilities of bells, and composed after the spectral analysis of different bells from all over Europe, ‘Cloches’ proposes a spiritual and magical voyage that ends with a frenetic and exciting movement, an exuberant and brilliantly scored finale for a fantastic album.
For her new recording project, ‘1823’, she has paired Schubert’s Moments Musicaux D. 780 with the first recording of Martín Sánchez Allú’s first Piano Sonata. Allú, a Spanish 19th Century composer with an established carrier in Spain's music scene of his time, wrote this sonata in a deliberately Classical style. Schubert’s Six Moments Musicaux, finished the year before of his premature death, belong to the most beloved group of Schubert’s piano music. Noelia Rodiles’s performances are generous, enthusiastic and rich in contrasts in a recording made in the outstanding acoustics of the Auditorio de Zaragoza, Spain.
Noelia Rodiles brings together three of her favourite Romantic composers (Schumann, Mendelssohn and Schubert) and three of the best-known Spanish composers of recent years (Jesús Rueda, David del Puerto and Joan Magrané). Noelia Rodiles commissioned them to write works freely inspired by Schumann’s Papillons, Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte, op.30 and Schubert’s Adagio, D178 respectively.
The result is a trio of pairs of mutually transformative compositions: not only do the contemporary pieces take their inspiration from the Romantic works, but the 19th-century works also acquire a new colour and focus when juxtaposed with their 21st-century counterparts.
Noelia Rodiles’s first CD as a soloist includes two of her preferred works for piano: the Musica ricercata by György Ligeti, one of the XX century’s most important works for piano and the beautiful Impromptus opus 90 by Franz Schubert.
Force and sensitivity in an album where Noelia Rodiles gives her very best.
"The pianism is both delicate and firm: the right proportion of both perfection and subtlety.”
Santiago Martín Bermúdez, El arte de la fuga
Cellist Fernando Arias and pianist Noelia Rodiles team up for this recording, portraying 30 years of Slavic masterpieces for this combination: From the still neglected Dohnányi’s Sonata, op.8 to one of 20th Century’s chamber music masterpieces: Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata op. 40. Intense and brilliant performances in this album which also includes Janacek’s gem “Pohadka”.
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