CD-Rogelio Groba

The monographic CD dedicated to Rogelio Groba Groba was recorded in 2005 on the composer´s 75th anniversary by the request of Rogelio Groba Foundation and with the collaboration of the Fundación Autor.

Conductor: Rogelio Groba Otero.
Sound technician: Paul Barreiro.

The CD includes the baroque suite "Intres boleses", and two concerts recorded for the first time: the “Concerto Arcaico in Re” for two violins (with Rogelio Groba Otero and Javier Cedrón as soloists), and the “Concerto n º 2 for violoncello and strings - Añoranzas“ (with Clara Groba Otero as the soloist).

Galician Chamber Orchestra.
Bonaerges, 2000.

The first CD recorded by the Galician Chamber Orchestra (GCO) was released by Bonaerges label in 2000. It includes Rakov´s, Groba´s, Elgar´s and Groba Otero´s works.

Director: Rogelio Groba Otero.
Sound technician: Paul Barreiro.

The recording of this CD was realized with the help of the Galician Association of Chamber music. It received great critical acclaim in the specialized press, highlighting the "five stars to the best sound” from the famous magazine “Amadeus”. The first piece in the CD is Rakov´s "Sinfonietta” edited for the first time in the world, then follows Edward Elgar´s “Serenade for strings". The rest of the pieces in the CD are works of Galician authors, among them Groba Otero´s "Divertimento para cordas ", and Rogelio Groba´s "Catro bagatelas para cordas” and "Canto de berce", all of them recorded by the GCO on this CD for the first time.

Soloists
Rogelio Groba Otero (violín - "Divertimento para cordas")
Clara Groba Otero (violoncello - "Canto de berce ").

"DON QUIXOTE "

Manuel García (Seville, 1775-1832) is one of the most outstanding and, at the same time, not much known personalities in the history of Spanish music. He was a distinguished Spanish opera singer, composer, impresario, stage manager and singing teacher. Manuel Garcia triumphed as a singer in the theatres of the Goyaesque Madrid of the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. He maintained a great friendship with Rossini and Lorenzo Daponte, the librettist of Mozart.
"Don Quixote" is an opera in two acts based on the chapters XXI - XXVIII of the first part of the “Quixote” composed by García towards 1826. The author of the libretto is unknown, though some writers believe that it might be Manuel García himself.  The libretto was recovered by Juan de Udaeta in the National Library of Paris.

It is the first recording of Garcia´s opera on the international level, made from a live performance at the Real Maestranza of Seville and is the third CD recorded by the Galician Chamber Orchestra.