Alberto Soriano Thebas - Sonata para Violín y Piano (1959)

Alberto Soriano Thebas - Sonata para Violín y Piano (1959)
Violin - Francisco Musetti
Piano - Celia Roca
0:00 I. Allegretto expressivo
2:54 II. Cantabile
7:19 III. Rondo-Scherzo
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Alberto Soriano Thebas (Santiago del Estero, February 5, 1915 - Entre Ríos, October 16, 1981) was an Argentine composer and musicologist renowned for his research in the field of Latin American music.
Alberto Soriano Thebas was born in Santiago del Estero. He spent his childhood and early youth in Salvador de Bahía since his parents, Sansón Soriano and Camila Tebas, settled there.
At an early age he began his musical studies at the Conservatory of Music of El Salvador, getting to stand out as a violin student of Maestro Dante de Souza and in harmony, composition and counterpoint with Maestro Silvio Deolindo Froes. This academic training, added to a permanent contact with the musical expressions of Afro origin cultivated by the Bahian people, marked him for the rest of his life, also dedicated to ethnomusicological research, journalism and teaching.
At a very young age, he ventured into poetry, publishing Las Cinco Llegadas de la Madre d, Agua, a book with a foreword by Jorge Amado and illustrated by Augusto Torres.
The practice of musical dictation and participation in rites and popular festivals enabled Soriano to guide more than a hundred Magical Songs and also achieve a deep knowledge of that telluric root that, years later, he would deepen in his works, musical essence, ritualism and humanism in this art. Some of the ethnomusicological immanences and Three auguric prayers and other songs of black liturgy , as well as in his chair of musical ethnology taught at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of Montevideo, in which he held the position of Director of the Department of Musicology.
Research trips to the interior of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (the country where he has settled since 1950) allowed him to broaden his continental vision. In Montevideo he received classes from Tomás Múgica and Lamberto Baldi .
This rapport with American cultural anthropology contributes to the fact that his music, oblivious to all external ornaments and in an apparent nakedness that can sometimes be disconcerting, is, according to the expressions of the Colombian musicologist Andrés Pardo Tovar: "an index of a temperament that, without prejudice to its originality finds in the roots of the vernacular tradition the deepest and truest sources of its musical aesthetics”.
In addition to numerous symphonic works, for soloist and orchestra, choral and chamber music, Soriano is the author of concertos for guitar ensembles.
The Concert Nº 1 for five guitars , premiered at the Solís theater in Montevideo , on October 16, 1952, earned praise from the prominent Brazilian critic Ricardo Nahiossy , who expressed Among the American musical monuments, the concerto for five guitars by Alberto Soriano, al Like a legendary mystery, it will endure as one of the most serious and profound works." Both this concert and Concert No. 2 for Four Guitars , premiered at the Latin American Music Festival in Montevideo in 1958, were performed and recorded by the Olga Pierri Ensemble .
Another noteworthy work is Cánticos para el Caminante (Sound Constructions), made on the basis of sounds of nature (frogs, birds, wind), recorded and organized as a musical piece. This, like several of his symphonic compositions, was released in Argentina by Discos Qualiton.
Among the renowned instrumentalists who have performed works by Alberto Soriano, it is worth noting the pianists Hugo Balzo, Celia Roca, Fanny Ingold, Wanda Lessman and the cellists Ernest Davies and Mstislav Rostropovich.
Works by Soriano have been conducted by directors such as Jascha Horenstein, who premiered his four Symphonic Rituals in 1957 in the city of Caracas (Venezuela), on the occasion of the Latin American Music Festival, Iosif Conta , director of the Radio Bucharest symphony orchestra, who performed on June 19, 1964 Three symphonic schemes on the life of Artigas and Kurt Masur , who at the head of the Radio Berlin symphony orchestra performed the Prague Triptych in 1961.
In the years of the Uruguayan military dictatorship, he was deported to Argentina, settling in the city of Concepción del Uruguay in the province of Entre Ríos where he founded the Municipal School of Music and taught at the Justo José de Urquiza Superior College, until a few days before his death on October 16, 1981.
Source: Spanish Wikipedia, Alberto Soriano Thebas (translated with Google)
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