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

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
January 21, 2003
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DENYCE GRAVES
    • PERFORMER
      Denyce Graves
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 21, 2003
    • UPC
      090266372621
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      09026637262
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical Vocals
    Works ⌄

    1. Maria de Buenos Aires: Yo soy Maria (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Astor Piazzolla

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Susan Palma, Héctor Del Curto, Pablo Aslan, Pablo Ziegler

    2. Soledad

      Composer: José María Vitier

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Marco Granados, Leo Grinhauz, Jay Elfenbein, José María Vitier, Memo Acevedo, John Amira

    3. Las paladros perdidos (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Astor Piazzolla

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Susan Palma, Héctor Del Curto, Pablo Aslan, Pablo Ziegler

    4. Haabia-Tupi

      Composer: Eliane Elias

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias, Satoshi Takeishi

    5. Los rios de la mano: No. 1. Plancha (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Carlos Guastavino

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Paquito D'Rivera, Nick Danielson, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Ziegler

    6. Al alba, el basque

      Composer: José María Vitier

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Marco Granados, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Aslan, Jay Elfenbein, José María Vitier, Memo Acevedo, John Amira

    7. Cancao do poeta seculo XVIII (arr. E. Elias for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias, Satoshi Takeishi

    8. Los dias perdidos (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Carlos Guastavino

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Susan Palma, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Aslan, Pablo Ziegler

    9. Habanera de Lorraine

      Composer: Chucho Valdés

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Chucho Valdés

    10. Canções típicas brasileiras: No. 5. Estrella e lua nova (arr. E. Elias for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias, Satoshi Takeishi

    11. Los rios de la mano: No. 7. Plomada (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Carlos Guastavino

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Paquito D'Rivera, Nick Danielson, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Ziegler

    12. Milonga sin Palabras (arr. P. Ziegler for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Astor Piazzolla

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Susan Palma, Héctor Del Curto, Pablo Aslan, Pablo Ziegler

    13. Romanza de Denyce

      Composer: Chucho Valdés

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Chucho Valdés

    14. Te vas de mi

      Composer: José María Vitier

      Performer: Denyce Graves, Leo Grinhauz, Pablo Aslan, Jay Elfenbein, José María Vitier, Memo Acevedo, John Amira


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