Since it's premiÃ¨re in Berlin, Nocturnos de AndalucÃa has been performed on fifty occasions in Germany, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Japan, the United States (in eleven different cities), and Cuba. The official Spanish premiÃ¨re took place at the National Auditorium on 11 October 1996, during the Madrid Autumn Festival, with Pepe Romero, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and the conductor FrÃ¼hbeck de Burgos. The same soloist and conductor won the greatest acclaim for this work in the course of the American tour of the Spanish National Orchestra in 2001. The MÃ¡laga concert included the premiÃ¨re of two more songs by Lorenzo Palomo, 'Tientos' and 'Plenilunio', both of which had been written for Montserrat CaballÃ© a short time before and are based on poems by Antonio Gala. The same artists would perform them with notable success in Hamburg (October 1995) and Madrid (February - March 1996), while MarÃa Bayo would win success in Bilbao with her first public performance of Palomo's vocal music. The two cycles were published in New York and the two songs based on verses by Gala were published by SEEMSA in Madrid.

Tracklist:

A Toast To The Night
Shattered Smile Of A Star
Dance Of Marialuna
Gust Of Wind
Nocturne Of Cordoba
The Flamenco Stage
The Poplar Trees By The River
The Maiden In White
Only You
Rain, Rain
The Dawn
You Are As Beautiful As...
Tientos
Full Moon
The Door Ajar
The Door Ajar
Mother, When I Marry
The Amethyst Mountain
Song Of The Adelfa And The River

UPC: 747313213528
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 4.18.06
Format: CD

MARIA BAYO - Andalusian Nocutrnes (CD)