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Milà plays Falla |
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Milà plays Falla |
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Milà plays Falla. |
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Leonora Milà launches her new album dedicated to Manuel de Falla in Barcelona |
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The new album Milà plays Falla will be launched with a promotional tour across several cities, which will include performances by Leonora Milà playing some of the pieces featured in this new album dedicated to Manuel de Falla. Confirmed dates and venues are: Vilanova i la Geltrú (December 19, Foment Vilanoví), Barcelona (December 29, Ateneu Barcelonès) and Andorra la Vella (February 2, venue to be confirmed). Others cities with date to be confirmed are Madrid, Girona, Lleida, Granada, Palma de Mallorca, Maó, Bilbao, Roma and Munich. Precise dates and venues where the presentation will take place will be provided soon. |
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Milà plays Falla has been officially launched. The new album from pianist and composer Leonora Milà was presented to the media in two press conferences. With this CD Milà breaks a nine-year recording silence, and does so in the best way possible, playing Manuel de Falla’s most famous pieces. Leonora Milà is regarded as one of the great interpreters of Spanish music from the second half of the 20th century, as well as one of the artists who have most contributed to spreading the works of Spanish composers throughout the world. |
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Milà plays Falla, the new CD from Leonora Milà dedicated entirely to composer Manuel de Falla, can now be purchased via this webpage or the main classical music shops in Spain. The new CD brings together 16 of Falla’s best known pieces such as Ritual Fire Dance, The Three-Cornered Hat and Baetic Fantasy, to name a few. Milà plays Falla has been released in a Digipack Deluxe edition that includes a 28-page booklet featuring texts written by Romà Escalas, director of the Museu de la Música de Barcelona, and numerous photographs. Mila plays Falla will have an initial distribution of 3,000 copies. |
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A sad piece of news. Joan Deltell Porta, husband and personal manager of Leonora Milà, died last 26th of April, aged 65. He was a well-known promoter and advocate for a wide range of cultural and entrepreneurial initiatives, but Mr. Deltell has also been the architect of Leonora Mila’s international artistic success. We owe to him the première of Tirant lo Blanc in Saint Petersburg and the numerous tours Milà went on to China People’s Republic, the United States of America, Japan, The Philippines, Germany, Hong Kong and Spain among other countries. |
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We have a date. The new Cd of the pianist Leonora Milà will be released next December by Limit, the record label. Leonora Milà breaks her 12- year silence, when she’s been away from the recording studios, with this record devoted entirely to the composer Manuel de Falla. With the title “Milà plays Falla”, the record includes the pieces Fantasía Baética, Seven Spanish Folksongs, three dances of The Three-Cornered Hat, Four Spanish Pieces and the Ritual Fire Dance. Leonora Milà is considered one of the best performers of Spanish music, and specifically, of Manuel de Falla. She has some recordings of him scattered among different Cd’s, but now, they are finally gathered together in just one record. We will be able to enjoy the best piano pieces from Manuel de Falla, performed by someone with genuine expertise in his work. |
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Tirant lo Blanc Ballet. The first time the famous Tirant lo Blanc Ballet has ever been released in DVD format, it has had a remarkable positive public reception. Choreographed by Iuri Petukhov and filmed live on stage in Saint Petersburg by the cinema director Antoni Ribas, Tirant lo Blanc Ballet is likely to be one of the most prize-winning and best-known scores by Leonora Milà. Thanks to the brilliant work of the St. Petersburg State Ballet company and pleasing both the audience and critics, Tirant lo Blanc Ballet was on stage during five consecutive years at the Mussorgsky Theatre and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona. And now you have the chance to enjoy this magnificent performance. A fully restored and re-mastered DVD copy you can purchase directly from our web shop. |
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The Catalan Television network will broadcast the documentary Leonora Milà. The Intuitively Talented. as a chapter of the music television programme "Cànon Sons" next Tuesday, December the 9th 2008. It will be first broadcasted by 33D channel (TDT - digital) at 19:30 and again by Canal 33 channel (analogue) around 00:30. |
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The waiting is over. The well-known and famous Tirant lo Blanc ballet by Leonora Milà can be purchased in DVD format, a copy completely restored and remastered. Inspired by the chivalry novel Tirant lo Blanc, written by the Valencian author Joanot Martorell in the 15th century, this classical ballet is one of the scores by Leonora Milà most prize-winning, well-known and full of international prestige. The dancer and choreographer Iury Petukhov is the author of the spectacular staging which had its premiere in Saint Petersburg in 1994, and was filmed life by the cinema director Antoni Ribas. Thanks to being praised by critics and audience alike, Tirant lo Blanc was on stage during five consecutive years at the Mussorgsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg, and subsequently at the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona. Now you will have the opportunity to enjoy again this magnificent work you can purchase in this same web site. Tirant lo Blanc the knight rides again! |
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Official presentation of Leonora Milà. The Intuitively Talented: Sturday, November the 15th at eight o’clock in the evening, at the Foment Vilanoví (Santa Madrona street, 1) in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona). |
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The documentary Leonora Milà. The Intuitively Talented will be officially presented next Saturday, November the 15th, at the society Foment Vilanoví. It is a 57 minutes piece of work, where the experiences and the career path of the pianist and composer Leonora Milà are explained. One at the same time, the important events that belong to 20th century history are included, events that the protagonist experienced herself. Therefore, the documentary is intended to be of general interest, agile and pleasant, and suitable for all audiences, not only for music lovers. It includes other interesting points such as life of artists under Franco regime, the Chinese students’ revolt that led to Tiananmen Square tragic incidents, the fall of the Berlin wall or the way classical music fits in contemporary society, and it becomes interesting for everyone interested in current issues, history, international politics and rigorous and sound journalism. Leonora Milà. The Intuitively Talented is the first project of the independent audiovisual company El far blau. The Catalan public television has collaborated in the project as a joint producer and will soon broadcast it.
Most of the major figures taking part of the documentary film, about thirty outstanding personalities belonging to the cultural world, society and contemporary Spanish and Catalan politics will attend its presentation. Punctuality is highly recommended as the admission will be open and free of charge but limited to 200 people |
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The new cd from Leonora Milà devoted to Manuel de Falla will be launched early next year under the label Limit. There will be a public presentation in Vilanova i la Geltrú and in Barcelona as well. We will shortly inform you of the place and time of the presentation as well as the exact date when the new record cd will be released. |
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The pianist and composer Leonora Milà will record a new cd dedicated exclusively to the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. This recording will include the most famous piano pieces from Falla, like Fantasia Baetica, Siete canciones populares españolas ("Seven Spanish Folksongs"), three of the songs from The Three-Cornered Hat, Cuatro piezas españolas ("Four Spanish Pieces") and the Ritual Fire Dance. This is the way Milà breaks a discographic silence that has lasted almost eleven years, because during these period of time most of her efforts have been focussed on composition. The making of her new record will take place in an outstanding place, the Biblioteca-Museu Víctor Balaguer, in Vilanova i la Geltrú between the 10th and the 14th of November. Little groups of people will be allowed during her life performances recording process. Leonora Milà is considered one of the best performers of Spanish music, and specifically, of Manuel de Falla. She has some recordings of him scattered among different cd’s, but now, they are finally gathered together in just one record. We will be able to enjoy the best piano pieces from Manuel de Falla, performed by someone with the genuine expertise in the composer Leonora Milà has. |
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The documentary “Leonora Milà. The intuitively talented.” describing the pianist and composer’s life and artistic trajectory has become true. It’s a 60 minutes film with the special collaboration of outstanding personages belonging to current politics, society and culture who have had a particularly close friendship and professional relationship with the Catalan artist. "Leonora Milà. The intuitively talented." will be son broadcast in television and published in DVD format in a year or so. |
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The pianist and composer Leonora Milà and tenor Carles Masdeu publicly performed together for the first time in 2007, interpreting songs by Eduard Toldrà (Vilanova i la Geltrú 1895-1962). Thanks to his work as orchestra conductor and his talent as composer he is considered one of the most important figures of 20th century Catalan music. The songs for voice and piano, the opera El giravolt de maig and the string quartet Vistes al mar are the most remarkable pieces amongst his extensive work. Leonora Milà and Carles Masdeu have performed pieces by Toldrà in a series of four concerts that have been the first collaboration between the two musicians which represent and symbolize two different generations. |
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Leonora Milà and Carles Masdeu took part in the last programme of the season of Els Matins de Catalunya Radio which was recorded in Vilanova i la Geltrú, at the head office of the society El Foment Vilanoví, and broadcast live on of July the 13th, of 2007. Conducted by the journalist Antoni Bassas, this daily show leads the audience share in Catalan mornings, thanks to 600.000 radio listeners. |
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The task of Leonora Milà as a composer keeps progressing at a very good pace. She is currently writing a Requiem and several commissioned works. |
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Leonora Milà is preparing a new tour as a soloist to some countries of the Meddle East and India, where this Spanish pianist had already performed at the end of the decade of 70’s. In this tour, Milà will play some of her compositions as well as pieces by Manuel de Falla and J.S.Bach. |
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The collaboration between Leonora Milà and Quartet Barcelona keeps active. They are actually playing the Quintet for piano and strings by the Belgian composer César Frank. Their last performance together took place one year ago in a tribute to Santiago Ruisiñol in the 75th anniversary of his death. Rusiñol was a painter, writer and one of the visible heads of Catalan Modernism. This Quartet Barcelona is formed by Marc Armengol and Edurne Vila (violins), Ulrike Janssen (viola) and Sergi Boadella (cello). |
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The North-American orchestra director and composer Gordon Wright died at the age of 72 in Indian, Alaska. Mr. Wright went to Alaska in 1969 as music director of the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra. In 1989 he left that position and retired as a professor at the University of Alaska. During his tenure as music director, he took the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, an offshoot of the symphony, on tour to remote and musically bereft towns throughout the state, travelling on school buses, boats, seaplanes and even dog sleds. Concert dress sometimes included parkas. |
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Next April and completely free of charge, the society and culture magazine Serra d’Or will distribute a copy of the documentary “Leonora Milà. The Intuitively Talented”. On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the magazine, one of the main gifts Serra d’Or will offer the readers will be “Leonora Milà. The Intuitively Talented”, an hour long documentary where you can find a review of the career path of the pianist and composer connected to her historical, political and social context. The DVD also includes all the performances filmed specifically for this documentary, even those not included in the final cut, due to lack of time. “Leonora Milà. The Intuitively Talented” is a joint production by El Far Blau and Televisió de Catalunya. The documentary broadcasted last December the 9th by the “second channel” of the public (national) Catalan television, Canal 33.