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    Moleiro: Piano Works / Clara Rodriguez
    Nimbus

    Moleiro: Piano Works / Clara Rodriguez

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    MOLEIRO, MOISES
    Artist
    Clara Rodriguez
    Released
    Mar 01, 2009
    Attractive and unfamiliar keyboard works, well played.

    This appears to be a reissue of a recital previously available on ASV (ASV CD DCA 890), and recorded, I believe, in 1994. It is good to have it back in circulation, as it offers a well-played representation of an interesting minor composer.

    Moleiro was born in Zaraza in Venezuela and in the mid 1920s he studied piano in Caracas with a well-known teacher, Don Salvador Llamozas. He went on to make a career as a pianist, composer and teacher. This present CD includes the bulk of the work he wrote for the piano.

    Most of the music here is not strikingly Latin American in manner, although there are a few distinctive touches here and there which speak of its geographical origins. For the most part Moleiro's piano music has about it a kind of aristocratic grace, and works within mostly European models understood from a South American perspective. At times one senses a kind of nostalgia for European forms and what they might represent. One is not surprised to encounter 'El senor de la peluca' - the gentleman with the wig - or to find oneself listening to a charming Waltz.

    Moleiro's Sonatinas are written in the tradition of Scarlatti (though being far from mere pastiche); his Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor have more than a little of Bach about them; the Serenade in the Spanish Style speaks for itself; the Estudio de concierto has clear affinities with Chopin and the delightful La fuente registers its composer's knowledge of Ravel and Debussy. But everywhere there is enough evidence of a personal sensibility at work to maintain the listener's interest. At times Moleiro's programmatic miniatures - such as La muchacha de la herrería (the girl from the blacksmiths), El herrero (The blacksmith) and Los pájaros (The birds) - are attractive additions to a familiar keyboard tradition.

    The last two pieces on the CD are the most distinctive. It is unfortunate that the relatively scanty documentation that comes with this CD gives no dates for any of the compositions, so that one has no way of knowing whether or not the sequence of music heard in any way represents the composer's stylistic development. Certainly Estampas del llano (Pictures of the plains) and Joropo are far more thoroughly infused with a sense of the composer's native land, and without that nostalgic air mentioned above. Though the musical language of Estampas del llano is essentially European in nature, its evocation of the Venezuelan plains, in their contrasting fecundity and aridity, makes it music that no European composer would have written. The joropo music of Venezuela grew out of the fusion of ancient Spanish traditions, including the fandango and the malagueña (themselves incorporating Arabic influences) with the musics of African slaves and of native South American Indians. It is a heady mix and from it has grown some exciting music. A good deal of that excitement is captured in Moleiro's Joropo for piano, played with considerable panache by Clara Rodriguez.

    Throughout this recital the sureness of Rodriguez' technique is evident, and her flexibility ensures that she can sound at home in all of the various musical idioms on which Moleiro's piano music touches. This makes for a consistently entertaining programme - a CD that makes a case, without overstatement, for the music of a figure too little known beyond his native land.

    -- Glyn Pursglove, MusicWeb International 
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  • Moleiro: Piano Works / Clara Rodriguez

    Moleiro: Piano Works / Clara Rodriguez

    Nimbus Mar 2009
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    1. Dance Passion / Leticia Gomez-Tagle
    2. Dance Passion / Leticia Gomez-Tagle
    Ars Produktion

    Dance Passion / Leticia Gomez-Tagle

    SACD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    ALBENIZ BRAHMS CHOPIN
    Artist
    Leticia Gomez-Tagle
    Released
    Feb 26, 2016
    In Latin America, you don‘t only dance at parties, and so even children learn how to dance to the typical rhythms. During her studies, Leticia Gómez-Tagle taught flamenco in several ballet studios and dance schools and even had a small flamenco group. With this background it becomes clear why the pianist has chosen this title for her first CD on Ars Produktion.
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  • Dance Passion / Leticia Gomez-Tagle

    Dance Passion / Leticia Gomez-Tagle

    Ars Produktion Feb 2016
    1 disc
    SACD
    $21.99
  • Piano Music - SCRIABIN, A. / BORTKIEWICZ, S. / LIADOV, A.K.

    Piano Music - SCRIABIN, A. / BORTKIEWICZ, S. / LIADOV, A.K.

    Danacord Aug 2007
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99