Nice review! I got to know Ginastera from his American Preludes, which was a favorite with the piano majors I knew in my college days. I'd love to hear your recommendations for his Piano Concerto. I have the ASV recording with Tarraga and Batiz, which I very much like, but I'd be interested in hearing about any alternative recordings.
Ginastera is really a great composer, and a personal favourite of mine - even his atonal, "expressionist" works. He excels in the evocation of dark, spooky atmospheres, with a touch of the preternatural. While not exactly unknown, I sense he doesn't get all the attention he deserves. One of the reasons his name gets mentioned is the version of his "Toccata" that Emerson Lake & Palmer included in their "Brain Salad Surgery" album. PS I actually went to Bomarzo with school, when I was a teen. Curious place indeed.
Frederick Fennell recorded a delightful band version of the Malumbo with the Dallas Winds. Same tempo, and with a bass drum that will test your speakers!
Ginastera is a great, great composer. He doesn’t get much of attention because he based his style on the gaucho (countryside) culture and not on the much more famous porteño (from Buenos Aires) culture - like Piazzolla, for example. So, folks, don’t expect tangos in Ginastera! More or less the same thing happened here in Brazil. Villa-Lobos represents very well the famous Rio de Janeiro culture (and shows a certain exuberance that strikes international listeners as “Amazonian”, but that’s phony. Rio is 2,000 miles away to the Amazon). Camargo Guarnieri is an equally fine composer but he created his style after the countryside music of several Brazilian regions (São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia) which nobody knows internationally.
Looking forward! There is a recently released Naxos album of works for soloist and orchestra - Guarnieri called them “choros” but they are, in fact, concertos - and they’re very, very lovely!
@@adrianosbrandao ...and I like Guarnieri just as I like Ginastera (much more than Villa-Lobos, indeed). That Naxos album is already on my list, just like the Ginastera on Bridge.
Obviously, we share the enthusiasm for one more composer. Ginastera reached from the first moment, when I heard one of his works, my "inner circle". And the first work I heard, was neither "Estancia" nor "Panambi", not even that gorgeous "Bomarzo", but the "Cantata para America magica". My comment was: Bartók thought further. And I adore Bartók... In fact, Ginastera is for me the composer, who comes closest to Bartók: Uncompromising, constructive as well passionate, creating a voice on the basis of folk tunes, but immensely sophisticated and transformed in the later works. I like to use his 1st piano concerto as exemple that 12-tone-composition can work, when an immensely gifted composer is uses that otherwise fruitless technique. My favourite works are "Bomarzo", of course, the "Cantata" and the 1st string quartet. But, like Bartók, Ginastera is a strange case: I like always that work I best, I just listen to. The cd you presented, is ordered now - thank you for the hint!
Greetings, Mr. Hurwitz. What's your opinion on Estancia/Panambi, conducted by Gisele Ben-Dor with the LSO? It's the only Ginastera disc I possess. Thank you.
que buenas descripción, ahora voy a buscar el cd para escucharlo
My favorite version is the full ballet in the Ben-Dor (Naxos) performance. Fabulous!!!
Nice review! I got to know Ginastera from his American Preludes, which was a favorite with the piano majors I knew in my college days. I'd love to hear your recommendations for his Piano Concerto. I have the ASV recording with Tarraga and Batiz, which I very much like, but I'd be interested in hearing about any alternative recordings.
ASV is the one to get, at least until the old Leinsdorf/BSO shows up.
What a hoot! - I can't imagine a less Argentina like place on the planet than Odense, Denmark. It just goes to show that music is music.
What is that absolute difference between place, according to you?
Ginastera is really a great composer, and a personal favourite of mine - even his atonal, "expressionist" works. He excels in the evocation of dark, spooky atmospheres, with a touch of the preternatural. While not exactly unknown, I sense he doesn't get all the attention he deserves. One of the reasons his name gets mentioned is the version of his "Toccata" that Emerson Lake & Palmer included in their "Brain Salad Surgery" album.
PS I actually went to Bomarzo with school, when I was a teen. Curious place indeed.
Hi Dave do you know and have an opinion on the Chandos three discs series of orchestral works?Thank you for everything
Frederick Fennell recorded a delightful band version of the Malumbo with the Dallas Winds. Same tempo, and with a bass drum that will test your speakers!
Nice video David!
Actually, Ginastera wrote 3 symphonies: No 1 "Sinfonia porteña", No 2 "Sinfonía elegiaca" & the "Sinfonía Don Rodrigo", op31a.
I sure would love to hear these! Apparently nos. 1 and 2 were withdrawn by the composer.
Yes, exactly. Let's not go there.
I do have a recording of his symphony no 2 but, sadly, the audio quality is far from great...
Ginastera is a great, great composer. He doesn’t get much of attention because he based his style on the gaucho (countryside) culture and not on the much more famous porteño (from Buenos Aires) culture - like Piazzolla, for example.
So, folks, don’t expect tangos in Ginastera!
More or less the same thing happened here in Brazil. Villa-Lobos represents very well the famous Rio de Janeiro culture (and shows a certain exuberance that strikes international listeners as “Amazonian”, but that’s phony. Rio is 2,000 miles away to the Amazon). Camargo Guarnieri is an equally fine composer but he created his style after the countryside music of several Brazilian regions (São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia) which nobody knows internationally.
Yes, but I love Guarnieri and will be talking about him too!
Looking forward! There is a recently released Naxos album of works for soloist and orchestra - Guarnieri called them “choros” but they are, in fact, concertos - and they’re very, very lovely!
@@adrianosbrandao ...and I like Guarnieri just as I like Ginastera (much more than Villa-Lobos, indeed).
That Naxos album is already on my list, just like the Ginastera on Bridge.
Obviously, we share the enthusiasm for one more composer. Ginastera reached from the first moment, when I heard one of his works, my "inner circle". And the first work I heard, was neither "Estancia" nor "Panambi", not even that gorgeous "Bomarzo", but the "Cantata para America magica". My comment was: Bartók thought further. And I adore Bartók... In fact, Ginastera is for me the composer, who comes closest to Bartók: Uncompromising, constructive as well passionate, creating a voice on the basis of folk tunes, but immensely sophisticated and transformed in the later works. I like to use his 1st piano concerto as exemple that 12-tone-composition can work, when an immensely gifted composer is uses that otherwise fruitless technique. My favourite works are "Bomarzo", of course, the "Cantata" and the 1st string quartet. But, like Bartók, Ginastera is a strange case: I like always that work I best, I just listen to. The cd you presented, is ordered now - thank you for the hint!
Greetings, Mr. Hurwitz. What's your opinion on Estancia/Panambi, conducted by Gisele Ben-Dor with the LSO? It's the only Ginastera disc I possess. Thank you.
Excellent.