Ginastera: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

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Both concertos enjoy bright, barnstorming performances from pianist Xiayin Wang accompanied with matching flair by the BBC Philharmonic, whose section leaders offer some really heartfelt and... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2018
Catalogue No: CHAN10949
Label: Chandos
Series: Ginastera Orchestral Works
Length: 65 minutes

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Ginastera: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 28

Work length25:01

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Xiayin Wang (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juan José Mena
Recorded: 15 November 2016
Recording Venue: MediaCityUK, Salford, United Kingdom

I. Cadenza e varianti

Track length8:44

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$2.60

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II. Scherzo allucinante

Track length5:01

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III. Adagissimo

Track length5:47

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IV. Toccata concertata

Track length5:29

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Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes Op. 23

Work length23:05

$12.00

$15.60

$21.00

BBC Philharmonic
Juan José Mena
Recorded: 19 September 2017
Recording Venue: MediaCityUK, Salford, United Kingdom

I. Tema per violoncello ed arpa

Track length1:58

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II. Interludio per corde

Track length1:41

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III. Variazione giocosa per flauto

Track length1:01

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IV. Variazione in modo di scherzo per clarinetto

Track length1:50

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V. Variazione drammatica per viola

Track length3:25

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VI. Variazione canonica per oboe e fagotto

Track length2:25

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VII. Variazione ritmica per trombe e trombone

Track length0:35

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VIII. Variazione in modo di moto perpetuo per violino

Track length1:03

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IX. Variazione pastorale per corno

Track length2:18

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X. Interludio per fiati

Track length1:15

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XI. Ripresa dal tema per contrabasso

Track length1:52

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XII. Variazione finale in modo di rondo per orchestra

Track length3:42

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Ginastera: Concierto argentino

Work length17:49

$4.00

$5.20

$7.00

Xiayin Wang (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juan José Mena
Recorded: 20 November 2016
Recording Venue: MediaCityUK, Salford, United Kingdom

I. Allegretto cantabile

Track length8:13

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II. Adagietto poético

Track length5:03

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III. Allegro rústico

Track length4:33

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Recording of the Week, Xiayin Wang performs piano concertos by Ginastera

1st June 2018

Chandos's survey of Ginastera's orchestral music concludes with the Piano Concerto No. 1 and other works performed by pianist Xiayin Wang and the BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena.

In his final year as BBC Philharmonic’s Chief Conductor, Juanjo Mena completes a highly acclaimed Ginastera series with this third volume.

Like in his previous series ‘La Musica de España’, Mena brings the composer’s creative genius to a more deserved fame, showcasing here three works that belonged to three different period of his compositional life.

While the Concierto Argentino is the most significant score of his early years, drawing directly on Argentinian folk music and full of youthful exuberance, the Variaciones Concertantes (more a concerto for orchestra than a set of variations) assumes a more personal and abstract form in accordance with the development of his harmonic ideas in the later stage of his life.

The rhythmic energy and magic scoring of the ‘neo-expressionist’ piano concerto (as Ginastera defined the third phase of his life) is faithfully expressed by the highly technical and virtuosic playing of Xiayin Wang, widely praised for her recent solo recording of piano works by Enrique Granados.

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August 2018

Both concertos enjoy bright, barnstorming performances from pianist Xiayin Wang accompanied with matching flair by the BBC Philharmonic, whose section leaders offer some really heartfelt and magnificently projected performances…Big plaudits to the BBC Philharmonic, whose section leaders offer some really heartfelt and magnificently projected performances.

September 2018

There’s a mercurial quality in Wang’s playing that gives her performance of the First Concerto a markedly choreographic feeling…The BBC Philharmonic have gone from strength to strength in this series. They are superb, idiomatic partners for Wang in the concertos and have the opportunity for their own virtuoso display in the Variaciones concertantes…Mena’s reading is refined yet full of subtle feeling and the recorded sound is spectacular.

1st June 2018

Fine pieces from a composer whose music is well worth exploring. As advocates for their brilliance they could not have more persuasive proponents than Wang, Mena, and the BBC Philharmonic...Wang proves to be a most compelling interpreter of this magical, intoxicating piece [the Concerto]…[she] is afforded ample opportunity to show off her impressive double octaves, particularly in the piece’s final moments.

classicalsource.com June 2018

The present disc, no less well recorded than were its two predecessors, is further enhanced by extensive annotations from Gerald Larner and the conductor. Ginastera aficionados and newcomers alike need not hesitate.

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