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Frank: Hilos, Adagio Para Amantani, Quijotadas / Alias Chamber Ensemble

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Details

Composer
FRANK, GABRIELA LENA
Artist
Frank
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Feb 15, 2011
Catalog #
8559645
UPC
636943964521

About


Gabriela Lena Frank is the real deal: a modern composer with a personal style, one that manages to integrate a wide range of sounds and performing techniques into a cohesive language that unapologetically includes melody and tonal harmony without ever sounding anachronistic. She clearly manages to remain true to herself, but she doesn't have to write down to her listeners in order to share her thoughts and feelings. This is just good music.

Hilos is a quartet for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano inspired by Peruvian weaving. The music is colorful, vibrant, and consistently inventive; the Latin element is pervasive, but not cheap, and not overwhelming. Danza de los Saqsampillos is an arrangement for two marimbas of an earlier piano piece, and it sounds like a blast to play; Adagio para Amantaní (for cello and piano) is a soulful meditation inspired by an island landscape in the middle of Lake Titicaca. Quijotadas is a string quartet based on Cervantes' Don Quixote. Its second movement, Sequidilla para la Mancha, has to be one of the most charming pieces of its kind since the scherzo of Ravel's Quartet, which it resembles in some ways (lots of pizzicato).

The performances, with the composer's participation where the piano joins in, and presumably her supervision where it does not, are uniformly excellent, and so are the sonics. A wonderful disc of inventive, fresh, characterful music, plain and simple.

--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 I. Danza del Altiplano 02:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Danza del Altiplano
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  2. 2 II. Zapatos de Chincha 02:56
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Zapatos de Chincha
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  3. 3 III. Charanguista Viejo 03:47
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Charanguista Viejo
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  4. 4 IV. Danza de los Diablos 03:41
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Danza de los Diablos
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  5. 5 V. Zumbayllu 02:44
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Zumbayllu
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  6. 6 VI. Juegos 02:09
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Juegos
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  7. 7 VII. Yaravillosa 03:36
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Yaravillosa
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  8. 8 VIII. Bombines 05:51
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. Bombines
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  9. 9 Danza de los Saqsampillos (version for 2 marimbas) 06:55
    Track
    9
    Title
    Danza de los Saqsampillos (version for 2 marimbas)
    Duration
    06:55
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  10. 10 Adagio para Amantani 09:37
    Track
    10
    Title
    Adagio para Amantani
    Duration
    09:37
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Matt Walker, Gabriela Lena Frank
  11. 11 I. Alborada 01:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Alborada
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  12. 12 II. Seguidilla para la Mancha 04:17
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Seguidilla para la Mancha
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  13. 13 III. Moto Perpetuo: La Locura de Quijote 03:51
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Moto Perpetuo: La Locura de Quijote
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  14. 14 IV. Asturianada: La Cueva 07:04
    Track
    14
    Title
    IV. Asturianada: La Cueva
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  15. 15 V. La Danza de los Arrieros 06:24
    Track
    15
    Title
    V. La Danza de los Arrieros
    Duration
    06:24
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Ensemble
    ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
  16. 16 Adoracion para Angelitos 02:57
    Track
    16
    Title
    Adoracion para Angelitos
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
  17. 17 The Armadillo's Charango 02:38
    Track
    17
    Title
    The Armadillo's Charango
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Gabriela Lena Frank
    Performer
    Gabriela Lena Frank