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Guastavino: Piano Music / Marcos Madrigal

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Composer
GUASTAVINO, CARLOS
Artist
Marcos Madrigal
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Nov 20, 2020
Catalog #
PCL10203
UPC
5029365102032

About

Born in 1984, Marcos Madrigal has been studying and absorbing the piano music of Carlos Guastavino ever since his Havana childhood. This album is the outcome of decades of affection distilled into a single album, which presents a personal but carefully curated journey through over half a century of fluent composition. Born and died in the Argentinian city of Santa Fe, hundreds of kilometers from Buenos Aires, Guastavino (1912-2000) spanned the decades of modernism with all its tumultuous innovation, but his language, like most of his compatriot composers, remained rooted in the 19th century. However, while he refined his talent in both song and the piano miniature to capture a world within the space of a five-minute miniature, his idiom is not burdened by nostalgia or a regret for a lost time. Rather, Guastavino finds ever-ingenious ways to celebrate life in all its richness, and perhaps this positive outlook in his music has helped it to travel far beyond his native land. He explores the sounds of his vast nation – the folksongs, the streets and the forests are all here – without undue reliance on picture-postcard naturalism any more than Spanish masters such as de Falla and Granados. The repertoire ranges from the early and well-known Bailecito (Little dance, 1940), to El Sampedrino (The Man from San Pedro, 1992), from his final decade, via two ten-piece cycles: Diez Cantinelas Argentinas (Ten Argentinian songs), composed in the 1950s, and Diez Cantos Populares (Ten folk songs), written in 1974 – all works that reveal Guastavino’s sheer love of melody. Although his writing is never facile in terms of structure or harmony, these technical aspects are always placed in the service of a cantabile upper line that is always distinctive, catchy and clearly influenced by folk song.

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. … Santa Fe para llorar 03:21
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. … Santa Fe para llorar
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  2. 2 No. 2. Adolescencia 04:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Adolescencia
    Duration
    04:50
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  3. 3 No. 3. Jacaranda 04:55
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Jacaranda
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  4. 4 No. 4. El Ceibo 03:20
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. El Ceibo
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  5. 5 No. 5. Abelarda Olmos 05:10
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Abelarda Olmos
    Duration
    05:10
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  6. 6 No. 6. Juanita 03:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Juanita
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  7. 7 No. 7. Herbert 06:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Herbert
    Duration
    06:41
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  8. 8 No. 8. Santa Fe antiguo 03:15
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Santa Fe antiguo
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  9. 9 No. 9. Trebol 02:54
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Trebol
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  10. 10 No. 10. La casa 04:51
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. La casa
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  11. 11 No. 1. — 02:15
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 1. —
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  12. 12 No. 2. — 01:49
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2. —
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  13. 13 No. 3. — 01:11
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 3. —
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  14. 14 No. 4. — 03:36
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 4. —
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  15. 15 No. 5. — 01:00
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 5. —
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  16. 16 No. 6. — 02:49
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 6. —
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  17. 17 No. 7. — 02:40
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 7. —
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  18. 18 No. 8. — 01:59
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 8. —
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  19. 19 No. 9. — 03:18
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 9. —
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  20. 20 No. 10. — 01:39
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 10. —
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  21. 21 12 Canciones populares: No. 2. El sampedrino (arr. for piano) 03:16
    Track
    21
    Title
    12 Canciones populares: No. 2. El sampedrino (arr. for piano)
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal
  22. 22 Bailecito 03:26
    Track
    22
    Title
    Bailecito
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Marcos Madrigal