The Madrid Conservatory

This album highlights a largely forgotten chapter of Spanish chamber music through a selection of string quartets written in the first half of the 20th century by composers affiliated with the Madrid Conservatory. Works by Julian Bautista, Salvador Bacarisse, Fernando Remacha, Maria de Pablos and others reflect the stylistic diversity of a generation characterized by modernism, neoclassicism and new compositional trends. The string quartets of the Madrid Conservatory reveal a rich musical heritage that combines academic training, artistic innovation and the emergence of the string quartet as a central genre of Spanish music at that time.