Le Grand Tango And Other Dances For Cello And Piano

Maria Kl

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Cat No: 8550785

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 730099578523

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Le Grand Tango and Other Dances for Cello and Piano

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Le Grand Tango and other Dances for Cello and PianoThe title of the present collection of music for cello and piano is takenfrom the work of the twentieth century Argentinian master of the dance form,Astor Piazzolla (b. 1921), who has written tangos for a wide variety ofinstrumental groupings. The collection starts with another popular musical formassociated with the Spanish motherland, Huguety Tagell's evocation of the spiritof flamenco.Gaspar Cassado was also Spanish, or, more specifically, Catalan by birth. Hewas born in Barcelona in 1897, the son of the organist and composer JoaquinCassado Valls and studied the cello in Paris with his compatriot Pablo Casals.He began his concert career in 1918, appearing as a soloist, recitalist and,with the greatest distinction over many years, in chamber music together withsome of the most famous musicians of the present century. He died in Madrid onChristmas Eve 1966. As a composer Cassado was greatly influenced by hiscontemporaries in Paris, Maurice Ravel and Manuel de Falla, the first the son ofa mother from the Basque country and the second the most influential ofcontemporary Spanish composers. His Solo Suite includes, as its secondmovement, the most characteristic of Catalan dances, the Sardana.Manuel de Falla was a native of Cadiz, where he was born in 1876, movinglater to Madrid and then to Paris, where he remained until the outbreak of warin 1914. He later settled in Granada, where he formed a friendship with the poetFederico Garcia Lorca and was deeply influenced by the cante jondo of Andalusia.Although neutral in the Civil War, he left Spain in 1939, to settle inArgentina, where he died in 1946. Orchestral music from his stage-works Lavida breve (Short Life), El sombrero de tres picos (TheThree-cornered Hat) and El amor brujo (Love the Magician) form a frequentpart of concert programmes, with their characteristic dances and turns ofmelody. The Ritual Fire Dance, with its growing tension and excitement,has dramatic importance in the last of these, a ballet of gypsy love, jealousyand haunting.Sergei Rachmaninov spent the latter part of his career, after the RussianRevolution, as a virtuoso pianist, with relatively little leisure forcomposition. After earlier abortive musical training in St. Petersburg, hebecame a student at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in piano in 1891 at theage of eighteen and in composition the following year, the year of his OrientalDance, written, possibly, with the cellist Brandukovsky in mind, the lattera former pupil and protege of Tchaikovsky.The Austrian cellist David Popper was born in Prague in 1843. By 1868 he hadbecome principal cellist at the Vienna Court Opera and was for some yearscellist in the Hellmesnerger Quartet. In later years he taught at the BudapestConservatory and was cellist in the Hubay Quartet. As a composer he wrote a veryconsiderable quantity of cello music, some seventy pieces in all, in addition tohis four concertos for the instrument and his
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