Essential Saint Saëns Josep Vicent, Damián Martínez Marco & Orquesta ADDA Simfònica

• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921):
• 1Andromaque: Overture07:45
• 2Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 in A Minor20:43
• 3Romance, Op. 3604:00
• 4Spartacus: Overture14:35
• 5Danse macabre, Op. 4007:52
• 6Ballet Ascanio: Acto III. Final. Les Déesses04:03
• 7Le carnaval des animaux, R. 125: XIII. Le cygne03:44
• Total Runtime01:02:42

Info for Essential Saint Saëns

ADDA-Simfònica is the permanent orchestra of the Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante. Its surprising trajectory has generated enormous repercussion due to the quality and energy of its sound personality. Josep Vicent is its Principal Conductor, as well as Artistic Director. A musician with a unique career, he has been at the head of some of the most prestigious symphonic ensembles in the world. Damian Martínez Marco is a cellist recognised by international critics for his expressive sensitivity and exquisite sound. Known also for his work in the Cassadó Duo, with which he has released 3 albums, Damian is a professor of cello at Musikene Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco, at ESMUC Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña and at the Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio in Madrid.

Essential Saint-Saëns is a recording made at the Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante on 30 October 2020, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Camille Saint-Saëns. It reviews some of the most significant pieces by the French composer, one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of his time. A virtuoso pianist and prolific composer, he was also a scholar of astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. A writer, caricaturist and tireless traveller, he is recognised as an essential link in the renewal that resulted in the music of Debussy and Ravel.

Damián Martínez Marco, cello
Orquesta ADDA Simfònica
Josep Vicent, conductor

Damián Martínez Marco
The cellist Damian Martinez Marco started to make a name for himself at a very early age, hence his recommendation by Mstislav Rostropovich to the Queen Sofia of Spain. He has been awarded in the international competitions in France, Spain and Portugal and is widely known for his “expressive sensibility” and “ornate tone”.

As a soloist, he has performed under the baton of renowned conductors such as, Krzysztof Penderecki, Lawrence Foster, Lorenzo Viotti, Theodor Guschlbauer, Anne Manson, David Harutyunyan, Peter Rundel, Pedro Halffter, Antoni Ros Marbà, Enrique García Asensio, Gloria Isabel Ramos, Frank Beermann, Tomás Garrido, Juan José Olives, Josep Vicent, Vasily Petrenko, Marzio Conti, Nuno Coelho, in auditoriums such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, Opera El Cairo, Leighton House Londres, Richter Galerie Tel Aviv, Auditorio Ajdal Rabat, Teatro Metropolitano de Medellín, Auditorio de Guayaquil, Nagoya Auditórium Japan, Concerthall Helsinki, Tomsk Theater, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana, Auditorio Barcelona, Auditorium Palma Mallorca, Palau de la Música Valenciana, Auditorio Zaragoza, Auditorio Pau Casals, Auditorio Príncipe Felipe Oviedo, Auditorio Conde Duque, Teatro Jovellanos Gijón, Gran Teatro Córdoba, Kursaal San Sebastián.

He has performed tours in France, Germany, England, China, United States of America, Finland, Sweden, Morocco, Lithuania, Estonia, Japan, South America, Israel and Canada.

At the age of 20, he became principal cello soloist for the Spanish Radio Television Orchestra RTVE and from 2001 to 2005 he was the principal cello soloist for the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra OBC.

He has recorded for Warner Classics, Claves, Naxos and ASV. Since the year 2000 he conforms the Duo Cassadó with the pianist Marta Moll de Alba.

His pedagogy is being undertaken at the Escola Superior de Música de Cataluña ESMUC and at the Escuela Superior de Música del País Vasco MUSIKENE as well as being invited regularly to impart master classes in different institutions and universities.

Damian graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Indiana University School of Music in USA and Musikhochschule Stuttgart under the direction of Janos Starker, Natalia Gutman, Maria de Macedo and Aldo Parisot with the support of Juventudes Musicales de Madrid, Fundación Ritz, Fundación Pau Casals, Indiana University, Banff Centre of Arts Canada and Yale University. He plays a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume made in Paris 1863.

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