Radames Gnattali: Alma Brasileira

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BIS
Release Date
February 10, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GNATTALI, RADAMES
    • PERFORMER
      D, Wen-Sinn, F, Halasz, Halasz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 10, 2015
    • UPC
      7318599920863
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2086
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    2. II. Saudoso

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    3. III. Ritmado

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    4. Alma brasileira (Brazilian Soul) (arr. R. Rabello for guitar)

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász

    5. 3 Concert Studies for Guitar: No. 1. Dansa Brasileira

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász

    6. I. Pastoral

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász

    7. II. Toada

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász

    8. III. Frevo

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász

    9. 3 Concert Studies for Guitar: No. 2. Toccata em ritmo de samba I

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász

    10. Saudade (arr. L. Almeida for guitar)

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász

    11. 3 Concert Studies for Guitar: No. 3. Toccata em ritmo de samba II

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Franz Halász

    12. I. Allegretto comodo

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Wen-Sinn Yang, Franz Halász

    13. II. Adagio

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Wen-Sinn Yang, Franz Halász

    14. III. Con spirito

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Wen-Sinn Yang, Franz Halász

    15. Moto continuo No. 1 (version for piano)

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász

    16. Negaceando

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász

    17. Canhoto

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász

    18. Vaidosa No. 1

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász

    19. Capoeirando

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász

    20. Trapaceando

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász

    21. Manhosamente

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász

    22. Batuque

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász

    23. Toccata

      Composer: Radamés Gnattali

      Performer: Débora Halász


His parents, Italian immigrants to Brazil, named Radamés Gnattali after the male lead in Verdi’s Aida, and his mother began to teach him the piano at the age of six. But even though he did become a highly skilled pianist, performing Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto in B flat at Rio de Janeiro’s Teatro Municipal at the age of 23, it was as a composer (and arranger) of music of a distinctly Brazilian cast that he would make his name. Gnattali developed an individual style, which today might be called cross-over, by infusing inflexions of popular music into a classical framework, over a fluid harmonic technique. Jaunty rhythms and striking melodic lines appear in a wholly uncontrived manner: they formed his everyday working material, as an arranger of popular music for record companies and radio stations. When composing concert music Gnattali usually did so for musicians that he collaborated with in popular music, such as the guitarist Laurindo Almeida, as well as for himself. A large production includes works for a great variety of scorings, but for this disc Franz and Débora Halász have chosen to present chamber and solo works for guitar and piano, inviting the cellist Wen-Sinn Yang to join in for the composer's Sonata for guitar and cello. As reflected in some of the titles, Brazilian dance forms (samba, batuque, choro) play an important role in this music, which for a long time was disregarded by a musical establishment suspicious of its great fluency and popular appeal; music which in every bar expresses the soul of Brazil – Alma brasileira.