American Music for Guitar & Piano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96089
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 13th November 2020
Contents
Works
Points on Jazz for two pianosLullaby
Melody no.17 'Sleepless night'
Cantos populares (10)
Pleasant Moments
The Easy Winners
Bambino
Nove de Julho
Odeon: tango brasileiro
Artists
Stefano Cardi (guitar)Enrico Pieranunzi (piano)
Works
Points on Jazz for two pianosLullaby
Melody no.17 'Sleepless night'
Cantos populares (10)
Pleasant Moments
The Easy Winners
Bambino
Nove de Julho
Odeon: tango brasileiro
Artists
Stefano Cardi (guitar)Enrico Pieranunzi (piano)
About
This unique recital opens with one of Joplin’s best-known piano rags, The Easy Winners, and follows it with a pair of waltzes, also in arrangements for guitar and piano. Cardi and Pieranunzi then sail down to Buenos Aires for a trio of tangos by Joplin’s Argentinian contemporary, Ernesto Nazareth (1863- 1934). The juxtaposition of Gershwin and Guastavino is more familiar, none the less beguiling for that, especially played with such easy-going charm.
The final pair of North and South American composers is the most ingenious: the Prelude and Waltz from Dave Brubeck’s 1961 album Points on Jazz, answered by two of the Cuatro Danzones by Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905), the Cuban composer who studied with Alkan at the Paris conservatoire and played an instrumental part in establishing a classically formed voice for Cuban music.
Most of the pieces chosen by Cardi and Pieranunzi were originally conceived for solo piano, but these arrangements draw out the particular, nationally accented character of their melodies when transferred to the guitar. Listened through in an hour-long sequence, the album takes the listener on an often nostalgia journey through the waltz as it was played and danced and heard throughout North and South American during the first half of the last century.
This album marks Stefano Cardi’s second appearance on Brilliant Classics after an equally novel and imaginative exploration of vocal and chamber music by Mauro Giuliani (95813), the pioneering guitar composer of 19th-century Italy.
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