Scarlatti, D: Sonata

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Baroque - Gabriela Montero

Awards:

BBC Music Magazine

Instrumental Choice - March 2008

Label:

EMI

Catalogue No:

5148372

Discs:

1

Release date:

18th Feb 2008

Barcode:

5099951483722

Medium:

CD
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Baroque - Gabriela Montero


Improvisations on:

Albinoni:

Adagio for Strings and Organ in G minor

Bach, J S:

Prelude

Handel:

Sarabande from Suite in D minor, HWV437

Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus

Largo from Xerxes (instrumental arrangement)

Water Music: Hornpipe

Montero:

Baroque And Me

Continuum

Pachelbel:

Canon

Sanz:

Canarios

Scarlatti, D:

Sonata

Vivaldi:

The Four Seasons (extracts)


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Gabriela’s extraordinary ability as an improviser, rare in the classical world, is fast becoming her trademark. The passion, poetic musicality and sense of structure Gabriela brings to classical works translate to her classy improvisations. And no matter how complex the variations, the original melody always emerges triumphantly from a musical tapestry that might weave blues, jazz, tango, Bach or Debussy into a multihued framework. Such a skill for improvisation – to blend a vast range of styles – makes Gabriela an extremely rare talent. In “Baroque” Gabriela takes some of the best known Baroque themes, including Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major, Albinoni’s Adagio, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Boccherini’s Minuet and Handel’s Water Music, and brings to her classy improvisations the same passion, poetic musicality and sense of structure that she brings to classical works.

playSanz: Canarios

playVivaldi: Autumn

playPachelbel: Canon

playHandel: Sarabande

playMontero: Baroque & Me

playHandel: Hallelujah

playAlbinoni: Adagio

playHandel: Largo

playBach: Prelude

playVivaldi: Winter

playHandel: Hornpipe

playScarlatti (D): Sonata

playVivaldi: Spring

playVivaldi: Summer & Winter

playMontero: Continuum

BBC Music Magazine

“a ferocious young talent”

bbc.co.uk

Charlotte Gardner

4th April 2004

“In Baroque, a collection of improvisations on Baroque themes, Gabriela Montero combines musicality and technical skill with soul...Her powers of invention are truly remarkable, especially when you consider that all these tracks were improvised on the spot and recorded live...It is music to let your hair down to, without discarding your brain along the way.”

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