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The Lost Days - Music In The Latin Style / Denyce Graves
Sony Masterworks

The Lost Days - Music In The Latin Style / Denyce Graves

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Composer
DENYCE GRAVES
Artist
Denyce Graves
Format
CD
Label
Sony Masterworks
Released
Jan 21, 2003
Catalog #
09026637262
UPC
090266372621

About

This seems to me an unusually successful example of a crossover CD, with Denyce Graves applying the sultry mezzo of a Carmen to songs that demand precisely that Latin heat and passion. Piazzolla is the starting point of the collection, in the shape of the heroine’s sensual song from María de Buenos Aires; but the tone for the CD is set by its arranger, Pablo Ziegler. One of Piazzolla’s most faithful disciples, Ziegler is responsible also for the arrangements of songs by another leading 20th-century Argentinian composer, Carlos Guastavino. Though a veteran of the Buenos Aires jazz scene, Ziegler is classically trained, and it is classical textures that are the most striking feature of his instrumentally varied arrangements for four or five musicians.

Perhaps the jazziest number in the whole collection is Villa-Lobos’s Estrella é lua nóva, arranged by the composer’s New York-based fellow Brazilian Eliane Elias. She uses a trio comprising piano, acoustic bass and percussion. For performances of their own works by two Cuban musicians, José María Vitier has a quintet, while Chucho Valdés simply accompanies at the piano.

The original challenge was to synthesise classic, jazz and Latin music, to present graceful melodies in uncluttered arrangements. This has been achieved extraordinarily successfully. Nothing conspires to destroy the atmosphere of relaxed sensuality and eroticism that pervades the whole collection. Piazzolla’s Milonga sin Palabras, performed as a wordless vocalise with piano, bandoneon, bass and flute, is perhaps the most haunting item in an altogether beguiling collection.

-- Andrew Lamb, Gramophone

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Maria de Buenos Aires: Yo soy Maria (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble) 03:42
    Track
    1
    Title
    Maria de Buenos Aires: Yo soy Maria (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Susan Palma, Héctor Del Curto, Pablo Aslan, Pablo Ziegler
  2. 2 Soledad 05:15
    Track
    2
    Title
    Soledad
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    José María Vitier
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Marco Granados, Leo Grinhauz, Jay Elfenbein, José María Vitier, Memo Acevedo, John Amira
  3. 3 Las paladros perdidos (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble) 03:44
    Track
    3
    Title
    Las paladros perdidos (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Susan Palma, Héctor Del Curto, Pablo Aslan, Pablo Ziegler
  4. 4 Haabia-Tupi 05:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    Haabia-Tupi
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Eliane Elias
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias, Satoshi Takeishi
  5. 5 Los rios de la mano: No. 1. Plancha (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble) 04:06
    Track
    5
    Title
    Los rios de la mano: No. 1. Plancha (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Paquito D'Rivera, Nick Danielson, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Ziegler
  6. 6 Al alba, el basque 06:54
    Track
    6
    Title
    Al alba, el basque
    Duration
    06:54
    Composer
    José María Vitier
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Marco Granados, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Aslan, Jay Elfenbein, José María Vitier, Memo Acevedo, John Amira
  7. 7 Cancao do poeta seculo XVIII (arr. E. Elias for voice and chamber ensemble) 03:32
    Track
    7
    Title
    Cancao do poeta seculo XVIII (arr. E. Elias for voice and chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias, Satoshi Takeishi
  8. 8 Los dias perdidos (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble) 02:47
    Track
    8
    Title
    Los dias perdidos (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Susan Palma, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Aslan, Pablo Ziegler
  9. 9 Habanera de Lorraine 04:26
    Track
    9
    Title
    Habanera de Lorraine
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Chucho Valdés
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Chucho Valdés
  10. 10 Canções típicas brasileiras: No. 5. Estrella e lua nova (arr. E. Elias for voice and chamber ensemble) 02:38
    Track
    10
    Title
    Canções típicas brasileiras: No. 5. Estrella e lua nova (arr. E. Elias for voice and chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias, Satoshi Takeishi
  11. 11 Los rios de la mano: No. 7. Plomada (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble) 02:55
    Track
    11
    Title
    Los rios de la mano: No. 7. Plomada (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Carlos Guastavino
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Paquito D'Rivera, Nick Danielson, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Ziegler
  12. 12 Milonga sin Palabras (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble) 06:17
    Track
    12
    Title
    Milonga sin Palabras (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    06:17
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Susan Palma, Héctor Del Curto, Pablo Aslan, Pablo Ziegler
  13. 13 Romanza de Denyce 02:29
    Track
    13
    Title
    Romanza de Denyce
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Chucho Valdés
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Chucho Valdés
  14. 14 Te vas de mi 04:24
    Track
    14
    Title
    Te vas de mi
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    José María Vitier
    Performer
    Denyce Graves, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Aslan, Jay Elfenbein, José María Vitier, Memo Acevedo, John Amira