{"id":1103,"date":"2015-07-15T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/discography\/cristobal-halffter-ecos-y-sombras\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:42:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:42:51","slug":"cristobal-halffter-ecos-y-sombras","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/discography\/cristobal-halffter-ecos-y-sombras\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristobal Halffter | Ecos y sombras (&#8220;Echoes and Shades&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;home-photo&#8221;][vc_column el_class=&#8221;column-no-padding &#8220;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;back-disco&#8221;]<a href=\"\/en\/discography\/\">Back to discography<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;503&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=&#8221;page-block-center page-block-title&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h1>Cristobal Halffter<\/h1>\n<h2>Ecos y sombras (&#8220;Echoes and Shades&#8221;)<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=&#8221;page-block-center page-block-mar40&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;129&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DVD Ref. KPA 111<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Koala Productions<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The composer himself conducts one of his most well-known works, his Cello Concerto N\u00ba2, \u201cNo queda m\u00e1s que el silencio\u201d (\u201cOnly silence remains\u201d, 1985). We have two notable performances of this concerto on CD: that of Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom the work was dedicated, conducted by Halffter (Erato ECD 75320), and that of Boris Pergamenschikow, also with the composer on the podium (Montaigne MO 782111). The recording that Asier Polo and Crist\u00f3bal Halffter offer us is somewhere between the two. Polo is technically exquisite, with an interpretation that\u2019s in the distinctly modern style of Pergamenschikow, but without failing to be influenced by Rostropovich\u2019s recording, with which it shares a marked use of vibrato, intense expressiveness in the more meditative passages, with a beautiful result, and excellent intonation, which is especially apparent in the cadenzas \u2013 introspective, poetic songs that explore the silence. As for the orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra exceeds expectations, making it the best performance on this Blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p>ORQUESTA NACIONAL DE ESPA\u00d1A Conductor\/Composer: Crist\u00f3bal Halffter.\u00a0Cello Concerto N\u00ba2.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;home-photo&#8221;][vc_column el_class=&#8221;column-no-padding &#8220;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;back-disco&#8221;]Back to discography[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;503&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=&#8221;page-block-center page-block-title&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Cristobal Halffter Ecos y sombras (&#8220;Echoes and Shades&#8221;) [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=&#8221;page-block-center page-block-mar40&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;129&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text] DVD Ref. KPA 111 Koala Productions The composer himself conducts one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/discography\/cristobal-halffter-ecos-y-sombras\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":961,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-style2.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1103\/revisions\/1518"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asierpolo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}