Madrid Comun Orch:Encinar - Don Quixote in Spanish Music

The five works that make up this CD are all based on Cervantes' masterpiece and all written by Spanish composers. They give us a musical insight into a literary work that is still vibrant and relevant today, not only as an entertaining, thought-provoking text, but also as a source of artistic inspiration. From Barbieri's mid-nineteenth-century stage work (1861) to Jorge Fern?�ndez Guerra's new soundtrack for Pabst's 1930s film (2005), from echoes of Spanish song to the European symphonic tradition, Don Quixote has inspired musical creations and re-creations ranging from the faithful to the utopian, from attempts at programmatic depictions of the knight's thousand and one tales to heartfelt idealisations.