(2001) Basque Music Collection, Vol. V: Francisco Escudero Michel Sasson Surprisingly

Surprisingly

One is carried away by the beauty of its melodic lines and their emotional force

Paul Tortelier

which developed at the beginning of the 15th century and determined the stylistic norms in Western Europe for nearly two centuries

Tunder is thus far more than merely Buxtehude’s father-in-law

(2001) Basque Music Collection, Vol. V: Francisco Escudero Michel Sasson SurprisinglyIt's no coincidence that a great composer and master of orchestration such as Ravel was an admirer of the music of a young Basque student in Paris. Meanwhile, his works proved Francisco Escudero to be one of the great composers of the 20th century, and a worthy successor to Ravel, himself a descendant of the Basque country. Escudero adopted many of the stylistic and compositional techniques of that century, creating works marked by transcendent unity