Letizia Calandra & Marcos Madrigal - Guastavino: Song Cycles (2020) [Hi-Res]

• Title: Guastavino: Song Cycles
  
• Year Of Release: 2020
  
• Label: Brilliant Classics
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 48.0kHz +Booklet
  
• Total Time: 00:57:58
  
• Total Size: 255 / 545 mb
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Tracklist

01. Flores Argentinas I. Cortadera, plumerito
02. Flores Argentinas II. el clavel del aire blanco
03. Flores Argentinas III. Campanilla ?a donde vas
04. Flores Argentinas IV. el vinagrillo morado
05. Flores Argentinas V. ¡Que linda la madreselva!
06. Flores Argentinas VI. las flores del machachin
07. Flores Argentinas VII. las achiras coloradas
08. Flores Argentinas VIII. Jazmin del pais. ?Que lindo!
09. Flores Argentinas IX. Aromito, flor de tusca
10. Flores Argentinas X. la flor del aguape
11. Flores Argentinas XI. Ay, aljaba, flor de chilco
12. Flores Argentinas XII. Ceibo, ceibo zuinandi
13. Flores Argentinas XIII. la rosa y el sauce
14. Elegia para un gorrion
15. Se equivoco la paloma
16. Jardin de amores
17. ¡a volar!
18. Nana del nino malo
19. La novia
20. Geografia fisica
21. ¡al puente de la golondrina!
22. Elegia
23. El sampedrino


The Argentinian composer Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000) was unafraid to distance himself from contemporary modernism. He resolutely followed his own path, leaving experimentation to others, creating a catalogue of over 500 intimate, autobiographical works harking back to the 19th century, many of them for voice and piano. In keeping with the aesthetic of these songs, this album has been given a ‘vintage’ sound quality, evocative of the 45 and 78 rpm records of a bygone era. Guastavino studied chemical engineering in the Argentinian town of Santa Fe, before going to Buenos Aires in 1938, having received a district grant to study music at the National Conservatory. But on arriving there, instead of entering the conservatory, he elected to take private lessons. His earliest published songs date from around this time, and they became taken up by European artists who were entranced by Guastavino’s gift for memorable, singable melody. Concert tours took him across the world, but his music was always flavoured by the sound of his homeland nostalgia for Argentina, its people, and especially its flora and fauna in such works as Flores Argentinas (1969) and Siete Canciones sobre poesías de Rafael Alberti (1946). The intelligence and artistic sensitivity of Cuban pianist Marcos Madrigal and Italian soprano Letizia Calandra, combined with the poetics of Guastavino, make for an album of warmth, tranquillity and delight. Letizia Calandra combines perfect diction with a gift for creating different vocal colours, and a dramatic skill that conveys the theatrical quality of Guastavino’s settings. For his part, Marcos Madrigal is sensitive to all the little nods and winks in Guastavino’s writing, accentuating for example his quotation of instrumental commonplaces of other periods, such as the horn call in ‘Jardín de amores’ (Garden of love), the first of the Alberti songs.

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Year 2020 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl

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