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Sierra: Piano Works / Ovalles
IBS Classical

Sierra: Piano Works / Ovalles

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Details

Composer
Roberto Sierra
Artist
Alfredo Ovalles
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
IBS Classical
Released
Jan 13, 2023
Catalog #
IBS-122022
UPC
8436597700399

About

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”.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 I. Rápido 07:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Rápido
    Duration
    07:16
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  2. 2 II. Lento con gran expresión 04:32
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Lento con gran expresión
    Duration
    04:32
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  3. 3 III. Mecánico 02:32
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Mecánico
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  4. 4 IV. Salseado 04:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Salseado
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  5. 5 No. 1. Lento 02:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1. Lento
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  6. 6 No. 2. Veloz 01:15
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2. Veloz
    Duration
    01:15
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  7. 7 No. 3. Rítimico 01:00
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3. Rítimico
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  8. 8 No. 4. Brillante 01:00
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 4. Brillante
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  9. 9 No. 5. Veloz 00:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 5. Veloz
    Duration
    00:43
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  10. 10 No. 6. Misterioso 01:32
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 6. Misterioso
    Duration
    01:32
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  11. 11 No. 7. Lento 01:43
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 7. Lento
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  12. 12 No. 8. Vivo 01:08
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 8. Vivo
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  13. 13 I. Moderato 03:49
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  14. 14 II. Con delicada expresión 03:02
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Con delicada expresión
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  15. 15 III. Vivo 01:28
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Vivo
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  16. 16 IV. Tiempo de marcha 03:30
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Tiempo de marcha
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  17. 17 Aphorisms 12:21
    Track
    17
    Title
    Aphorisms
    Duration
    12:21
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  18. 18 I. Movido 05:38
    Track
    18
    Title
    I. Movido
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  19. 19 II. Evocativo 05:45
    Track
    19
    Title
    II. Evocativo
    Duration
    05:45
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles
  20. 20 III. Intenso 05:50
    Track
    20
    Title
    III. Intenso
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Roberto Sierra
    Performer
    Alfredo Ovalles