Description

JOAN MANÉN (BARCELONA, SPAIN, 14 MAY, 1883 – BARCELONA, SPAIN, 26 JUNE, 1971)

 

 

 

 

His progress in music was so rapid that his father exhibited him as a piano prodigy. Having studied the violin under Clemente Ibarguren, he suddenly appeared as a violinist, and met with such success that in Germany he was compared to his famous countryman Sarasate. Likewise he attracted much attention as a composer, not only in Spain, but perhaps to even a greater degree in Germany, where he resided at different times for protracted periods. His works comprise: the operas Giovanni di Napoli (1903), Der Fackeltanz (1909) and Neró i Acté (1928) with his own libretto; the symphonic poem Nova Catalonia; at least three violin concertos; “Fantasia – Sonata” for guitar; a suite for violin and piano; a piano quartet, a string quartet, and a number of exquisite miniatures for violin and orchestra. He also made a completion-cum-arrangement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in C, which otherwise only survives in its first 259 measures.

 

TRACKLIST

 

Lied (Manén) AB151 03128 067922, HMV, 29 July 1916

Miramar-Zortzico Op 42 (Sarasate) 37934 4261o, G&T 12 1 1904, Paris

Moto Perpetuo (Paganini) 5010 Scala, 1912-1914

Moto perpetuo (Paganini) E10105 P211, Parlophon, 1915 Berlin

Nocturne Op 9 No 2 (Chopin-Sarasate) 37938 4267o, G&T 1904-1905 Paris

Partita No 3 BWV1006 Prelude (Bach) 37931 4258o, G&T Paris 1904

Romanze op. 108 “Ragyogó nap” (Radieux soleil) (de Romanze und Gitarre, op. 108) (Hubay) Stgt 44656 Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft de Stuttgart, Georg Schmid, 13-04-1938

Rondeau badinerie (Bach-Manén) 20064u 67919 HMV, Apr. 1918

Serenade No. 1 (Drdla) 2044 P210, 1915 Parlophon, Berlin 1915

Serenata Andaluza (Sarasate-Manén) Antonia Pich Santasusanna, piano Grabación en estudio (Barcelona. Estudio Toreski), 14 de enero de 1954

Serenata Andaluza, Op. 28 (Sarasate-Manén) Recital violí i piano. Enregistrament en estudi (Barcelona, 1953)

Sonata nº 2, BWV 1015 (Bach) Stgt 44651, 52, 53, 54 Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft de Stuttgart, Georg Schmid, 13-04-1938