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

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
February 15, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FRANK, GABRIELA LENA
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Alias Chamber Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Frank
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 15, 2011
    • UPC
      636943964521
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559645
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Danza del Altiplano

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    2. II. Zapatos de Chincha

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    3. III. Charanguista Viejo

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    4. IV. Danza de los Diablos

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    5. V. Zumbayllu

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    6. VI. Juegos

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    7. VII. Yaravillosa

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    8. VIII. Bombines

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    9. Danza de los Saqsampillos (version for 2 marimbas)

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

    10. Adagio para Amantani

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Performer: Matt Walker, Gabriela Lena Frank

    11. I. Alborada

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

    12. II. Seguidilla para la Mancha

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

    13. III. Moto Perpetuo: La Locura de Quijote

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

    14. IV. Asturianada: La Cueva

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

    15. V. La Danza de los Arrieros

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Ensemble: ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

    16. Adoracion para Angelitos

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank

    17. The Armadillo's Charango

      Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank

      Performer: Gabriela Lena Frank



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