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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Melodías de (in)dependenciaCanciones de México y Argentina
Gerardo Garciacano (baritone) & Alexandra Goloubitskaia (piano) This CD combines songs that - in different ways - illustrate the lively back and forth between the influence of European traditions and that of Latin American folklore on the composition of art songs in Argentina and Mexico. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Flores ArgentinasCanciones de Carlos Guastavino
Dalton Baldwin (piano), Desiree Halac (mezzo-soprano) Argentinian-born Désirée Halac presents a beautifully performed recital of songs by Carlos Guastavino. The obituary written for The Guardian called Guastavino the most quietly distinctive voice in 20th century Argentinian music. His distillation of local folk elements into an avowedly romantic-nationalist idiom was unique and markedly different from his colleagues. Guastavino wrote some 300 works, more than half of them the delightful songs, often winsome or tinged with sadness, on which his reputation rests. “Guastavino surely deserves greater recognition in North America. His easily accessible music bridges the gap between the...populism of Astor Piazzolla and the austere academicism of Alberto Ginastera. ...Ms. Halac...is so assured, so comfortable in her delivery...that one wonders why we have never heard her on record before” American Record Guide “Halac sounds at home in this music and never tries to overplay its fragile charms. ...This is a lovely recital and I hope it makes both the music of Carlos Guastavino and the voice of Desirée Halac better known.” MusicWeb International | |
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| |  | AsturianaHighly melodic and atmospheric ‘songs without words’ by Spanish and Argentinean composers De Falla, Granados, Ginastera, Guastavino, Montsalvatge and Buchardo, transcribed by Kashkashian and Levin
“It looks like a standard song recital, yet it's played on the viola. …the opening excerpt from Falla's Seven Popular Songs… turns up later in its usual context to hypnotic effect: slower than would be singable, and so contemplative that it sounds like Arvo Pärt. The sense of concentration, with minute inflections of line and timbre in which the pianist is caught up too, continues into the ensuing Granados set.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2007 ***** “The performances deceive the ear into thinking these idiomatic arrangements are instrumental originals.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2007 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Marina Tafur (soprano), Nigel Foster (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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