Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar
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Brand: ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCComposer: Osvaldo Golijov
Conductor: Robert Spano
Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Dawn Upshaw
Performer: Anne Carolyn Bird
Performer: Jessica Rivera
Performer: José Eduardo Chama
Performer: Jésus Montoya
Performer: Kelley O'Connor
Performer: Robb Askof
Performer: Sean Mayer
Performer: Sindhu Chandrasekaran
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Preludio De Agua Y Caballo
- Balada
- Mariana, Tus Ojos
- Bar Albor De Madrid
- Desde Mi Ventamna (Aria A La Estatua De Mariana)
- Muerte A Caballo
- Balada
- Quiero Arrancarme Los Ojos
- A La Habana
- Quiero Cantar Entre Las Explosiones
- Arresto
- La Fuente De Las Lagrimas
- Confesion
- Interludio De Balazos Y Lamento Por La Muerte De Federico
- Balada
- De Mi Fuente Tu Emerges
- Tome Su Mano
- Crepusculo Delirante
- Doy Mi Sangre
- Yo Soy La Libertad
Music reviews of Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar
Music Review: Superb performances, but this is music theatre of the cheapest, most pedestrian kind,
Rating: 2 Stars
I knew Golijov's music primarily from the Kronos recording of The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (with David Krakauer). That is an exhilarating experience recommended to everyone - Golijov's take on kletzmer music was imaginative and inventive; it deployed all the clichés, of course, but made a point of it and ended up with something that was genuinely moving and worthwhile. His opera Ainadamar also uses clichés - as many of them as he could possibly fit in, apparently - though this time around it is primarily Spanish but also North African influences. The problem is that in Ainadamar nothing ever amounts to or achieves anything, and the result is just an admittedly superbly performed collection of the hoariest, trite pop-opera clichés.
The title means "fountain of tears", and the story concerns the death of Federico Garcia Lorca framed by events happening long afterwards. If the music is clichéd the text and story are only barely better (well, I don't speak Spanish, so it may be the English translation which is bad for all I know). If I were to find a nice thing to say about the opera, it must be that Golijov does seem to display a certain aptitude for writing for voices, especially female ones, and a skilled hand at orchestration. Otherwise, the mix of banal pop music, broadway, flamenco and touches of Andrew Lloyd Webber (yes, it is fully tonal, but in the way the flattest pop music is tonal) rarely rises above the trite, cheap, faux-multiculturalist and hackneyed, especially since Golijov seems to have no ability (in this case) to draw musical points together into anything resembling a coherent overall whole. This is a series of tracks with an overall theme, not a through-composed opera (which would be perfectly ok, however, if any of the tracks were in any way interesting).
Now, the performances are indeed admirable, and Dawn Upshaw is sometimes almost able to convince me that this is worth hearing. O'Connor and Rivera are hardly less compelling (Montoya is a flamenco singer, and seems to do a good job as well). The women's chorus is good (if you appreciate Broadway musical choruses) and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra does a stellar job under Spano's well paced, vital and spirited direction; the sound is vivid and the booklet notes excellent. So every technical aspect were in place for this to be a riveting experience. It is a pity, then, that the musical material is so desperately thin. I also find it sad (though some people obviously disagree) that record and opera companies spend their resources on this kind of thing, and that it gets so much press, given the often overlooked operatic masterpieces or near-masterpieces that are still being written by composers such as Siegfried Matthus or Detlev Glanert. Not recommended unless you have an obsession with this kind of thing.
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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-MAY-2006
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