Sierra: Piano Works / Ovalles

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Label
IBS Classical
Release Date
January 13, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Roberto Sierra
    • PERFORMER
      Alfredo Ovalles
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 13, 2023
    • UPC
      8436597700399
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      IBS-122022
    • LABEL
      IBS Classical
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Rápido

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    2. II. Lento con gran expresión

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    3. III. Mecánico

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    4. IV. Salseado

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    5. No. 1. Lento

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    6. No. 2. Veloz

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    7. No. 3. Rítimico

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    8. No. 4. Brillante

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    9. No. 5. Veloz

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    10. No. 6. Misterioso

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    11. No. 7. Lento

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    12. No. 8. Vivo

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    13. I. Moderato

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    14. II. Con delicada expresión

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    15. III. Vivo

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    16. IV. Tiempo de marcha

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    17. Aphorisms

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    18. I. Movido

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    19. II. Evocativo

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles

    20. III. Intenso

      Composer: Roberto Sierra

      Performer: Alfredo Ovalles


A student of Ligeti, Roberto Sierra is the most prominent Latin American composer on the international scene. If the Piezas Íntimas were for me the concentrated version of Roberto’s language, the Aphorisms are 28 fragments that live up to their name, each of them being a short sentence proposing what for me are Roberto’s compositional principles in their purest and most concise version - each of them exploring the dynamic and sonic range of the instrument in a matter of seconds. His Sonatas, as I began to study them, opened me up to a world full of completely fresh sonorities, structures and approaches. The Sonatas span a world from Central Europe, where their structure strengthens in the second half of the 18th century, to the region of Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries, where sonata movements contained Afro-Caribbean elements linked to sudden appearances of elements as different from each other as flamenco, salsa, pasodoble or tango, followed by slow movements that seem like improvisations (despite the exactness with which they have been written), filled with nocturnal music, an aria da capo that loses its original rhythm and becomes “out of balance”.