Latin American Guitar Festival

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Cat No: 8550273

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099527323

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Latin American Guitar Festival

Description
Latin American Guitar Festival Ever since the Spanish Conquistadores took various plucked instrumentssuch as the guitarra and vihuela to the New World in the 16th century, theguitar and its many relatives have flourished as the main instruments in everyday musical life in Latin America. Fur1her cultural interchange with Europe inthe 19th century resulted in syncopated and Latinised forms of popular Europeandances such as the Waltz. Schottische and Polka. Conversely, in the early 20thcentury, a purely Latin dance became the rage in European and American highsociety: this was the Tango, which was born in the brothels of Buenos Aires.The present recording draws mainly from this vast heritage of Latin Americansong and dance. Of the composers represented, all are renowned as guitarists intheir own right, or have worked closely with guitarists.Antonio Lauro was academically trained as a musician but early on wasclosely involved with the folk music of his country, singing and playing theguitar and cuatro (a tiny four-stringed guitar) in various groups. Hispopularity is based largely on his many pieces for the guitar which were firstbrought to the notice of a wider public through the work of his fellowVenezuelan and virtuoso guitarist. Alirio Diaz. His pieces are often namedafter people and places: Maria Luisai is the name of his wife, Natalia is hisdaughter, and Carora the birthplace of Diaz.Both Jorge Morel and Jorge Cardoso are Argentinian virtuoso guitaristswith very different backgrounds: Morel lives in America and is well known as anarranger and performer while Cardoso studied to be a doctor and lives in Spain.The guitar music of Leo Brouwer has become standard repertoire, and heis also renowned as a performer, conductor, composer of film scores and an avidresearcher into the musical roots of his country, Cuba. Drume Negrita (SleepLittle Black Girl) is a gentle lullaby while the Suite in D is an early piecewhich demonstates the composer's folk roots.EI Diabio Suelto (The Devil at rest) was originally a piano piece, asort of Latin American ragtime, and hasbecome one of the most popular and arranged pieces in Venezuela. The songAlfonsina y el Mar (Alfonsina and the Sea) holds a similar position inArgentina, and its composer Ariel Ramirez is a renowned keyboard player andcomposer of the popular Misa Criolla, a folk mass.The sounds of the Tango and the Milonga (a kind of cowboy music fromthe Pampas) are never far away from the music of Astor Piazzolla. Hiscompositions (he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris) and performances (he isa master of the bandoneon, a kind of large concertina) transform theArgentinian tango in the way that the Suites of Bach transformed Baroque dancessuch as the Minuet and Sarabande: that is, the dance form is used as a vehiclefor a wider musical expression. His suite of five pieces for guitar wasinspired by the Five Bagatelles for guitar written by Sir William Walton forthe great English guitarist Julian Bream, and covers a
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