The Best of Martin Jones: Discover Carlos Guastavino
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Label: Nimbus
Cat No: NI7728
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 5th October 2018
Contents
Works
BailecitoCantilenas argentinas (10)
Las Ninas
Las Presencias
Romances nuevos (3)
Artists
Martin Jones (piano)Works
BailecitoCantilenas argentinas (10)
Las Ninas
Las Presencias
Romances nuevos (3)
Artists
Martin Jones (piano)About
The history of Argentine concert music during the 20th century was a process of the absorption of various European influences and their melding with more indigenous traditions. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Argentine composers tended to study in Europe or North America, and the result was the appearance of a number of striking personalities who eventually attracted world-wide attention. Three names now stand out: Alberto Ginastera, Mauricio Kagel and Astor Piazzolla, the supreme master of the Tango, who succeeded in spanning the divide between popular and sophisticated tastes.
In addition to these stylistically extremely diverse figures, a number of composers of high quality remained known principally only within Argentina itself, working especially with a harmonic palette inspired by the guitar, and various stylizations of dance rhythms, and the leading creative figure among them was Carlos Guastavino.
Guastavino’s music remained firmly based in the language of the late 19th and early 20th century, maintaining that music should be based on singable melody and tonal harmony, and written for the here and now, not for discovery by future generations. He succeeded instead in creating a national music that was genuinely popular and accessible to a very wide audience, and he exercised a significant influence on a younger generation of composes who grew up in the 1960s and 70s. A talented pianist whose flamboyant playing style is reflected in his mode of writing for the instrument, Guastavino’s piano works enshrine the essential characteristics of his musical personality.
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