BIS records launches re:orchestra first CD, with Beltrán-Zavala
Roberto Beltrán-Zavala
The essential music series presents composers in the context of the folk music of their environment. Roberto Beltrán-Zavala and the re:orchestra have prepared a program of works by Dmitri Shostakovich, surrounded by folk songs from the Balkans, Russia and Romania. In this program, Shostakovich’s works are combined with folk music traditional of the streets of Eastern Europe bringing to the audience a new and refreshing perspective of Shostakovich’s works.
Roberto Beltrán-Zavala and The re: orchestra sign to BIS records for the release of their debut album “Essential Music – Shostakovich”
Presentation tour dates in The Netherlands: October 30, 2015 | Zeeuwse concertzaal, Middelburg October 31, 2015 | MCO, Hilversum November 1, 2015 | Jurriaanse zaal, de Doelen, Rotterdam
Founded in 1973, BIS Records belongs to the most highly respected classical labels in the world, praised for the sound quality of its recordings and for the versatility and variety of its catalogue, which to date includes more than 1700 titles and is distributed in more than 46 countries. BIS records has won virtually every industry award with recordings of some of the finest conductors, soloists and orchestras in the world. With “Essential Music-Shostakovich”, Mexican-Dutch conductor Roberto Beltrán Zavala and the re:orchestra of Rotterdam join the ranks of some of the finest classical artists such as Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Valery Gergiev, Martin Fröst, and world class orchestras such as The Royal Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Dutch Radio Philharmonic among many others.
Beltrán-Zavala closes the International Spring Orchestra Festival in Malta
The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Roberto Beltrán Zavala brought the International Spring Orchestra Festival to a spectacular conclusion celebrating the struggles for freedom through Karl Fiorini’s first symphony dedicated to the golden jubilee anniversary of Malta’s independence.
Alongside the symphony, Beltrán Zavala guided us on a musical journey to the near orient with Rimsky-Korsakov’s most popular work and highly evocative Scheherazade suite, bringing the evening and the festival to a magnificent finale.
Program:
Symphony no. 1 (World Premier) – Karl Fiorini
Interval
Scheherazade Suite op.35 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov