These soulful Spanish and Argentinean songs arranged by violist Kim Kashkashian and pianist Robert Levin are well suited to their expressive and expansive playing. Most of the songs, ranging from works by Granados, de Falla, and Montsalvatge to early Ginastera, are written in a late romantic to early modern idiom, and many incorporate a strong ...
Guitarist Christopher Parkening and baritone Jubilant Sykes sometimes perform together at the church they attend in Southern California, and their collaboration on this CD grew out of that connection. (Subtitled "A Musical Journey Through Brazil, Spain and the Americas," the album does traverse that territory, but also includes a Turkish ...
Martha Argerich does not give solo piano recitals anymore. She does something better: she plays duo piano and chamber music with her friends and students. She's been doing it for a couple of decades, and willful as she is, she probably won't change. Besides, when it comes to duo piano and chamber music recitals, Argerich with her friends and ...
This CD is a real anomaly: a recording of Latin American music for voice and eight cellos that does NOT include Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5! The repertoire presented here is so rich that the Villa-Lobos isn't even missed (and for fans who crave hearing Conjunto Ibérico perform it, the group has recorded it for Channel Classics). All ...
With this album, Anna Netrebko turns to lighter selections than her standard fare: arias and ensembles from operettas, folk, and salon songs, and crowd-pleasing favorites. She gives this repertoire the same focus, interpretive eloquence, and vocal brilliance that she brings to more "serious" material. Netrebko is notable for the absolute purity ...
The Canadian duo piano team of Anne Louise-Turgeon and Edward Turgeon are doing their part to get more music for two pianos out there with this disc of works by Latin American composers. Most of the pieces here were originally written for two pianos, including some unpublished works by Francisco Mignone, received by Duo Turgeon from the composer's ...
The songs on this album fall into the genre of canción de cámera, or chamber song -- a specifically Argentine form resulting from the efforts of Argentine composers of the early twentieth century to create a national type of art song that drew on local folk and popular forms. Most non-Argentines will think of the tango in this connection, but ...
The name of composer Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000) has often come up in connection with the new surge of interest in the music of Argentina. Known primarily for songs and piano music, Guastavino rejected modern compositional trends. The booklet notes for this album of Guastavino's piano compositions name-check Scriabin, Chopin, Brahms, and ...
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