A. Romero - Suite for Strings, IV. Fuga con Pájara Pinta Bimodal y Seis Numerao (BBO)

DISCLAIMER: This is a spliced performance.
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Violin: Alexis Cárdenas, Meelis Orgse, Lilit Tonoyan, Antonio de Sarlo, Marina Kakuno, Saaya Ikenoya, Camilo Cuellar, Malú Pomares
Viola: Luis Miguel Pinzón Acosta, Alice Vaz
Violoncello: Néstor Fabián Cortés Garzón, Azzurra Raneri
Traverso: Felipe Egaña, Dorothee Kunst
Double Bass: Jesse Solway
Guitar: Hugo Miguel de Rodas Sánchez
Harpsichord, Organ: Nadine Remmert
Percussion: Miguel Altamar
Bremer Barockorchester

Recorded live at “Unser Lieben Frauen Church”, Bremen
4 March 2022
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IV. Fuga con Pájara Pinta Bimodal y Seis Numerao: 0:00
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According to the composer, he had nothing else to do while in London and
decided to write the work in response to those who said he couldn’t write a
complex work because he hadn’t studied musical counterpoint. He insisted that
he knew the rules of counterpoint better than those who studied formally and
set out to prove it!

The complexity Romero was committed to demonstrate is a delicate interplay of
thematic statements – a fugue, in the spirit of a canon, but more intricate
because as each instrument enters with the fugue theme, instruments already
playing must continue with musical material that adds to the musical discourse
without interrupting that theme. In contrast, a canon is a series of imitations
without further expansion of the material.
New West Symphony
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Composed by Aldemaro Romero (1928-2007) in 1976 in London
Written for the English Chamber Orchestra
Dedicated to Venezuelan composer Juan Bautista Plaza