Spanish Romances

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Lorengar’s singing is luminous, passionate and technically polished in this appealing programme of songs with guitar (Siegfried Behrend) and piano (Alicia de Larrocha). — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: ELQ4825944
Label: Eloquence
Length: 84 minutes

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Milán: Durandarte

Work length4:33

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

anon.: Tres morillas m'enamoran

Work length1:29

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Milarte: A la sombra de mis cabellos

Work length1:25

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Daza: Enfermo estaba antioco

Work length1:24

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Pisador: Guarte el Rey Don Sancho

Work length1:00

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Padre Bermuda: Mira nero

Work length0:57

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Vasquez, J: De los alamos vengo

Work length0:48

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Mudarra: Isabel, perdiste la tu faxa

Work length1:10

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Narvaez: Con qué la lavaré

Work length3:32

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Handel: No se emendera jamas

Work length6:34

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Richard Klemm (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: Zorongo

Work length2:35

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: Las tres hojas

Work length1:47

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: El Café de Chinitas

Work length3:20

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: Anda, jaleo

Work length1:58

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: Los cuatro muleros

Work length1:38

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: Los Reyes de la baraja

Work length1:17

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: Romance de Don Boiso

Work length4:14

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: Los pelegrinitos

Work length3:24

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

trad.: La Tarara

Work length1:23

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Siegfried Behrend (guitar)
Recorded: 1966-01-14
Recording Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin

Granados: Tonadillas

Work length26:22

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
Recorded: 1977-07-10
Recording Venue: Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London

1. La Maja de Goya

Track length3:44

2. Amor y Odio

Track length2:20

3. El Tra-La-La y el Punteado

Track length1:15

4. El Majo Olvidado

Track length2:58

5. El Majo Tímido

Track length0:56

6. Callejeo

Track length1:29

7. El Mirar de la Maja

Track length2:50

8. Las Currutacas Modestas

Track length1:26

9. El Majo Discreto

Track length1:43

10. La Maja Dolorosa No. 1 (Oh muerte cruel!)

Track length2:26

11. La Maja Dolorosa No. 2 (Ay majo de mi vida)

Track length2:12

12. La Maja Dolorosa No. 3 (De aquel majo amante)

Track length3:03

Granados: Canciones amatorias

Work length14:01

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
Recorded: 1977-07-10
Recording Venue: Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London

1. Mira que soy Niña

Track length2:58

2. Iban al Pinar

Track length1:58

3. Mañanica era

Track length2:31

4. No lloreís Ojuelos

Track length1:19

5. Llorad Corazón

Track length2:19

6. Gracia mía

Track length2:56

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When Pilar Lorengar died, a little over 20 years ago, at the age of 68 in her adopted city of Berlin, the tributes were unanimous for ‘one of the most beautiful voices heard in the post-war era’ (The Independent). She had grown up in Zaragoza, and always treasured her introduction to the musical stage, practically as an infant, in a zarzuela troupe. Thus she learnt how to hold a stage, deliver a line and captivate an audience almost with her mother’s milk.

Those lyric-dramatic qualities distinguish the two albums compiled here. Issued originally on a DG LP, new to CD and freshly remastered are the Spanish ballads on CD1, arranged by the guitarist Siegfried Behrend for himself and Lorengar. These are vivid musical postcards, variously pastoral, sacred or vernacular in tone, with melodies which have become well-known in other contexts such as Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas and his Harpsichord Concerto. Complementing the folksongs is a genuine Handelian rarity: No se emenderá jamás, an early cantata with an original Spanish text, where Lorengar and Behrend are joined by the gambist Richard Klemm.

‘A charming voice and exemplary diction,’ Gramophone’s original reviewer could not help noticing of Lorengar in March 1967. Years later, on the 25th anniversary of Lorengar’s debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, its Intendant Götz Friedrich commented: ‘She has made our ears clear and opened our hearts … the purity of her tone is grounded in harmony of person, voice, character and personality.’

A decade on from the album of folksongs, Lorengar had become a Decca artist, making delightful contributions to complete opera sets such as Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte (conducted by Solti). With the label’s ‘house’ Spanish pianist, Alicia de Larrocha, she recorded an album of tonadillas by Granados in which native wit and warmth shines from every bar, responsive to every quick turn of emotion. Reflecting in 2003 on her career as a whole, Max Loppert in Opera noted this distinctive quality: ‘I cannot think of another soprano of the period who could so freely soar and be plangently affecting at one and the same moment.’

Reviews

Christmas 2017

Lorengar’s singing is luminous, passionate and technically polished in this appealing programme of songs with guitar (Siegfried Behrend) and piano (Alicia de Larrocha).

July 1978

[Lorengar] is at her best in some of the Canciones amatorias; in the delightful ‘Iban al pinar’ or in ‘No Iloréis ojúelos’, with its generous flowering of melody… [de Larrocha] has an utterly natural rightness of touch in this music… A record that offers playing of this quality can hardly be ignored

Spanish Romances

2 CDs

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