My Secluded Garden : De Burgos / Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra, Los Romeros, Pepe Romero, Bayo

LORENZO PALOMO (b. 1938)
My Secluded Garden

Mi jardin solitario (My Secluded Garden)
La Encarnilla; Soledad!
La rueda verde (The Green Wheel)
La alondra y el ruisenor (The Skylark and the Nightingale)
Cancion burlesca (Burlesque Song)
El corazon se me parte (My heart is breaking)
Estrella de la manana (Star of the Morning)
La tarde (The Evening)
Susurros (Whispers)
Callen los pinos (Let the pine trees fall silent)
Cancion del Bambu (Song of the Bamboo)

Madrigal y Cinco canciones sefardies (Madrigal and Five Sephardic Songs)
Penas de amores Madrigal (The Pain of Love Madrigal)
Linda de mi corason (My Heart's Beauty)
Nani (Lullaby)
Pequena serenata sefardi (Little Sephardic Serenade)
Romance sefardi (Sephardic Romance)
Nana sefardi (Sephardic Lullaby)

Concierto de Cienfuegos
Noche, lago de mil fantasias (Night, Lake of a Thousand Fantasies)
Canto a la noche - Arullos (Song to the Night - Lullaby)
Las dos orillas (The Two Shores)

Maria Bayo - soprano
Pepe Romero - guitar

The Romero Guitar Quartet
Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, conductor

recorded 2001, 2008

Acclaimed for her 'beautifully clear, warm and intelligent coloratura' (The Gramophone) and 'naturally bright, vernal timbre' (BBC Music Magazine), Spanish soprano Maria Bayo has shone as a prima donna internationally, yet reserves a special place for the music of her native country. With legendary guitarist Pepe Romero, she is an ideal interpreter of the heartfelt songs of Lorenzo Palomo, one of Spain's most successful contemporary composers. The Romero Guitar Quartet premiered Palomo's beguiling Concierto de Cienfuegos. His equally appealing Andalusian Nocturnes and Spanish Songs are also available (8.557135). ( NAXOS )