BBC Philharmonic- Gerhard: Don Quixote (Complete Ballet); Suite from Alegrias; Pedrelliana (CD) Zoot Money & the Big Roll Band London 2007

London 2007

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BBC Philharmonic- Gerhard: Don Quixote (Complete Ballet); Suite from Alegrias; Pedrelliana (CD) Zoot Money & the Big Roll Band London 2007The Catalan Roberto Gerhard studied piano with Granados, and was the only Spanish composer to study with Arnold Schoenberg. It was, however, over twenty years before he committed himself to writing twelve tone music. In the interim, his output brought a new focus and precision (owing more to Stravinsky and Bartok) to the Spanish style. All the works on this album were composed in that period. Dating from the early 1940s, his ballet Alegrias was