Rehearsing Movimiento with Laura Klugherz, Suzanne Sieber and Agustín
León Ara in the student's residence "Francisco Franco" in Santiago de
Compostela (september 1978)
Movimiento / Movement
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It is a short work, divided into several sections united (or, better, agglutinated) by a conductive design characterized by a long note topped by an ornamental "arabesque".
It is not an excessively virtuosic work (although the appearance of passages of great difficulty, and even cadenzas in both instruments, can, in some moments, give it that aspect), but in it the expression, in its classical sense, must prevail over any other element, giving the piece a generalized tinge of intense drama.
Although it is not my first work composed, it is one of the first performed and, what is more important, it is with which the passage occurs from a period of intense academic training to another characterized by the search and evolution of a personal language that, in the long run, has been derived in the current one. Movement has for me, from that point of view, a great sentimental value, regardless of the purely aesthetic or musical values that each listener wants or not to attribute to it after listening to it.
Movimiento's premiere program (Santiago de Compostela, september 6th 1978)
Movimiento was composed during the last days of August 1978 in Santiago de Compostela, where I was participating as a student of Composition of Carmelo A. Bernaola in the XXI international course of "Music in Compostela", being performed on September 6th at the final concert held in the Chapel of the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos, played by american violinist Laura Klugherz (who also performed its American premiere, at Carnegie Hall in New York, in 1989) and the german pianist Suzanne Sieber, also students of the course.
Movimiento's first page
In 2022, Movimiento was included in the CD "Baroque/Modern", on the IBS Classical label, performed by violinist Anna Urpina and pianist Alberto Rosado.
Cover and back cover of the CD "Baroque/Modern"
(IBS Classical, 2022)
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Klugherz, Laura
A performer's analysis of three works for violin and piano by contemporary Spanish composers (Doctoral dissertation)
DMA diss.: U. of Texas, Austin, 1981 (159 p.).
Recording
Recording: Laura Klugherz (violin) and Nancy Roldán (piano) (Carnegie Hall, New York, june 1989)
Reviews
Premieres by Armenteros, José Luis Turina, and Arteaga
By Antonio Iglesias
(Review published in the newspaper Informaciones. Madrid, September 8, 1978)
21st INTERNATIONAL COURSE «MUSIC IN COMPOSTELA»
Without a doubt, the scholarship students' concerts turn out to be the most interesting among the informative and interpretative activities that culminate in the final days of Music in Compostela. Indeed, these concerts highlight the work accomplished in the classrooms over the course of the four weeks, and, when possible, serve as a platform for presenting Spanish works in their world premieres -sometimes even written here in Santiago by the most outstanding students in the composition class.
Such was the case over the past two days. [...]
José Luis Turina is the grandson of the renowned Spanish and internationally recognized composer. Perhaps due to this connection -though I honestly don't believe so- at yesterday afternoon's premiere in the Royal Chapel of the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos, despite an aesthetic that differs greatly from his grandfather's, I thought I detected contours of a similar lyricism. Nonetheless, his «Movimiento» for violin and piano is a well-crafted, balanced piece that skillfully alternates graceful arabesques in a perfectly executed dialogue between the two instruments, both of which are handled with great care. It was also generously applauded, and both in Armenteros' and José Luis Turina's cases, praise was extended to Carmelo Bernaola, who, from his composition chair, guided both works with notable skill.
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Recitals by 3 Pianists and a Violinist
By Allan Kozinn
(Review of the concert performed in the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York by Laura Kugherz and Nancy Roldán, published in the "The New York Times" on June 11th, 1989)
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José Luis Turina's "Movimiento" (1978) is contrastingly angular and severe, but Miss Klugherz and Miss Roldán found a dramatic, emotional thread within its academic form, and turned it into an evocative statement.
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Videos
| Presentation for the CD "Baroque/Modern" |
| Movimiento (Anna Urpina, violín, y José Luis Romero (piano) Madrid, Juan March Foundation, April 23, |