Release Date: 01 November 2003
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313232925
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Latin American Guitar Music
Description
Latin American Guitar MusicThe guitar has become inextricably woven into the soul ofLatin American music since its arrival from the Iberian Peninsula. From themeditative vihuela tablatures to the gut-wrenching songs of gypsy cantaores,the guitar personified aesthetic opposites, which played a key r??le in theevolution of its sound in the Americas. European forms and dances weretransformed by the magic realism and inexhaustible angst of the New World intoa unique language full of verve, passion, defiance, pathos and ebullientsensuality. Valse-Pasillo-Joropo, Milonga-Candombe-Tango...Salsa-Merengue-Vallenato... Saudade-Samba- Bossa Nova...and so on. No onecollection could possibly represent the sheer breadth and variety of musicalforms we know today as Latin America. The music included here representscontrasting styles from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and a timeless ballad fromCuba's Leo Brouwer.Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), the controversial pioneer ofthe avant-garde Tango, transformed the music to instrumental high art. Hisrestless fusion of jazz, modern and traditional Tango yielded some of the mostsought-after compositions for arrangers and performers alike. I arranged thisversion of La muerte del angel and Primavera portena for solo guitar fromprinted chart editions and Piazzolla's 1973 recording. The bewitching melancholy of the waltzes of Dilermando Reis(1916-1977) is hard to resist on a first hearing. Se ela preguntar (If I shouldask her) and Promessa have become standards of Brazilian popular music. Unlikethe music of Gnatali, Gismonti or Pereira, Reis preferred the more traditionalBrazilian guitar style, full of tenderness and with a singular rubato. Better known for his modern virtuosic solo guitar Sambas andCh??ros, Marta by Marco Pereira (b.1956) reveals an enchanting vulnerabilitywith its folding half-step harmonies and progressions.The exceptional pianist Horacio Salgan became one of thepioneers of the 'New Tango' during the 1960s. His music elevated traditionalTango to solo and chamber music repertoire. This arrangement of Don AgustinBardi came from an old cassette recording which Jorge Morel transcribed by ear.One of the outstanding singer/composers of the Tango's earlyyears, Angel Villoldo, composed his El Choclo around 1903 in therestaurant where it was first played. Referred to as a Tango Criollo (CreoleTango), El Choclo became a classic and sold over 30,000 printed copies. Myarrangement comes from a printed piano version of the original.Born in Buenos Aires in 1957, the guitarist-composer MaximoDiego Pujol creates music that blends old and new with cosmopolitan eleganceand exciting rhythmic urgency. His innate feel for the spirit of milonga can beheard in much of his music. The haunting sadness of the simple architecture ofStella australis contrasts with the complex and dynamic mood changes outlinedin the Elegia por la muerte de un tanguero (Elegy for the Death of a Tanguero),a three-movement homage
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
