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Alberto Ginastera’s dazzling Glosses on Themes of Pablo Casals, heard here in both its original version for string quartet and string orchestra and its later fully-orchestrated version, pays tribute to his close friend, the legendary cellist (and composer) on the occasion of the centenary of Casals’s birth.
The Variaciones concertantes places a variety of instruments in the limelight with featured solos, culminating in a virtuosic malambo, the archetypical gaucho ‘jousting’ dance whose vertiginous motion engenders frenetic enthusiasm among both participants and onlookers.
Alberto Ginastera: Glosses sobre temes de Pau Casals for orchestra, Op. 48
I. Introduccio
II. Romanc
III. Sardanes
IV. Cant
V. Conclusio delirant
Alberto Ginastera: Overture in E minor, D. 648
Tema per violoncello ed arpa
Interludio per corde
Variazione giocosa per flauto
Variazione in modo di scherzo per clarinetto
Variazione drammatica per viola
Variazione canonica per oboe e fagotto
Variazione ritmica per tromba e trombone
Variazione in modo di moto perpetuo per violino
Variazione pastorale per corno
Interludio per fiati
Ripresa dal tema per contrabasso
Variazione finale in modo di rondo per orchestra
Alberto Ginastera: Glosses sobre temes de Pau Casals for string quintet and string orchestra, Op. 46
I. Introduccio
II. Romanc
III. Sardanes
IV. Cant
V. Conclusio delirant
2011 edition
“if you want to explore the full range of the composer's melodic invention and vivid orchestral palette, you could hardly better this superbly played and recorded coupling...First rate recording too.”
5th February 2010
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“It's an extrovert, rather gushing work...The performances are suitably rumbustious”
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I. Introduccio
