Osvaldo Golijov: Oceana

Osvaldo Golijov: Oceana

Osvaldo Golijov: Oceana
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Composer: Osvaldo Golijov
Conductor: Robert Spano
Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Performer: Jay Anderson
Performer: John Dearman
Performer: Scott Tennant
Performer: Elizabeth Remy Johnson
Performer: Jamey Haddad
Performer: Dawn Upshaw
Performer: Luciana Souza
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
  1. Call
  2. First Wave: "Oceana nupcial, cadera de las islas" - Rain Train Interlude
  3. Second Wave: "Quiero o?r lo invisible"
  4. Second Call
  5. Third Wave: "Oceana, reclina tu noche en el castillo"
  6. Aria: "Tengo hambre de no ser sino piedra marina"
  7. Chorale of the Reef: "Oceana, dame las conchas del arrecife"
  8. Movement 1
  9. Movement 2
  10. 1. Night of the Flying Horses: Close Your Eyes - Doina - Gallop
  11. 2. L?a descolorida
  12. 3. How Slow the Wind

Music reviews of Osvaldo Golijov: Oceana

Music Review: Derivative pastiche
Rating: 2 Stars

Golijov is all the rage nowadays. Hailed by the New Yorker and the New York Times as the next big thing in classical music, he has all the right credentials to appeal to our politically-correct aesthetic. He's Argentinian, Jewish and American all at the same time. We love the idea of mixed cultural influences, I suppose because it satisfies our liberal longing for a world where everyone gets along just fine.
I have enjoyed other Golijov productions, although I doubt his ultimate talent. He's not up there with the greats. In this collection, I realized that he is a superb collector of other peoples' themes and inspirations -- rather than a bone fide creator of his own. There is one movement, superbly sung by Dawn Upshaw, where the setting is just lovely. That's where Golijov excels. But the theme is somebody else's.
The first movement with choir and guitars was just tedious. The string quartet section was better but I'd heard it before, or something remarkably similar, on many other Kronos Quartet recordings.
If Golijov is really a composer rather than an arranger, I'd like to see him compose.

Description of Osvaldo Golijov: Oceana

Oceana is the key work of this album, a composition for orchestra, three guitars, harp and voice, filled with Latin and jazz sounds. It is performed by the acclaimed Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under conductor Robert Spano (also on Ainadamar), and the multiple Grammy?? nominated Brazilian jazz singer Luciana Souza. This piece was Golijov's first commission of a choral work in the spirit of J.S. Bach and became a source of inspiration for La Pasi??n seg??n San Marcos (St. Mark Passion), a future release on DG.

Tenebrae is a collaboration with the famous Kronos Quartet--one of the most influential ensembles of our time. The meditative work in two movements "is about pain," says Golijov, "but pain seen from inside and from a distance." Despite being Golijov's reflection on today's tormented world, Tenebrae is a work of radiant beauty that offers consolation and a prayer for peace.


This stunning new CD of music by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov is a beauty. The title work, Oceana, is scored for instruments (with prominent guitars and percussion), chorus, and solo vocalist (here, the remarkable samba and jazz stylist Luciana Souza). It sets a poem by Pablo Neruda that praises the transcendent power and beauty of the ocean. Filled with dancing rhythms, the work ebbs and flows, ever-moving and fascinating at every turn. The Kronos Quartet then plays Tenebrae, a two-movement lamentation with long, almost Verdian melodies. Three Songs, sung by Dawn Upshaw, ends the CD. One is a tale about the sad fate of Jews and Gypsies during World War II. The second, "Colorless Moon," is a stunning dirge, and the last, a poem by Emily Dickinson, is also a lament about the inevitability of death. Please don't assume from these descriptions that this disc is depressing. This is stunning, original music that uplifts, and it is performed superbly by all involved. A must. --Robert Levine

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