Robert Xavier Rodriguez combines cello music on new recording
The latest release of Robert Xavier Rodriguez on Albany Records spans several years, and includes all the cello and piano works, plus a work for solo cello.
"It's wonderful to have quality recordings out, you can show what a piece is supposed to sound like. It is, of course, always great to have live performances, but I hope recordings will help generate more live performances of my music," says Rodriguez.
This release includes the husband and wife team of cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi and pianist Gloria Lin. They perform works written between 1979 and 2006: Tentado por la samba, Máscaras, Ursa, Favola I, and Lull-A-Bear.
"I called it Ursa because the double bass looks like a bear, it's a big brown bear. I decided to base it on the four seasons of what a baby bear goes through in his life: being born in the summer and learning to copy Mother. After summer comes fall, when the bears eat, they stuff themselves, so there is a lot of gobbling music. In the winter they sleep, so there is a Lull-A-Bear, which is what I call a Bear-ceuse. And finally there is spring, when they wake up and play!"
RXR references a work that SOLI Chamber Ensemble premiered, "Musica, por un Tiempo," a few years ago. Here is their performance:
- You can also listen to more of the tracks at www.arkivmusic.com
