The output of the Catalan Roberto Gerhard reflects his attachment to Spanish culture; hence his Cancionero de Pedrell, based on Spanish folksongs collected by Felipe Pedrell, pays tribute to the work of his teacher. But his itinerary did not stop at national borders: after a period in Vienna and Berlin studying with Schoenberg, it was in wartime Cambridge that he composed the music for the ballet Pandora, choreographed by the German Kurt Jooss, a caustic critic of the absurd violence of the nationalist dictatorships. This title was released for the first time in 1994.
Alegrías, suite
· Preámbulo - Jácara (4'12)
· Farruca y Jaleo (8'45)
· I. Sa ximbomba (Majorca) (1'36)Cancionero de Pedrell· I. ["Au milieu de la prairie verte"] (1'49)
· II. La mal maridada (Catalonia) (1'52)
· III. Laieta (Catalonia) (1'28)
· IV. Soledad (Asturias) (2'34)
· V. Muera yo... (Asturias) (1'34)
· VI. Farruquiño (Galicia) (3'17)
· VII. Alatá (Galicia) (2'42)
· VIII. Corrandes (Valencia) (2'39)Sept Haiku / Set haikai
· II. ["J'ai caressé ta flottante chevelure de cressons bleus"] (0'41)
· III. ["Sous les lucioles"] (1'08)
· IV. ["Douce voix"] (1'44)
· V. ["Pensée"] (1'51)
· VI. ["Sous la pluie d'été"] (1'21)
· VII. ["Mais en exil"] (2'20)
· I. The Quest (4'25)Pandora Suite
· II. Psyché and the Youth (7'07)
· III. Pandora's Carnival (2'31)
· IV. The Monsters' Drill (5'02)
· V. Death and the Mothers (8'08)
