MD Pujol - Cuatro Argentinas
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96703
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 18th November 2022
Contents
Works
Elegia por la muerte de un tangueroSonatine
Suite del Plata no.1
Variaciones sobre un tema de Atahualpa Yupanqui
Artists
George Tossikian (guitar)Works
Elegia por la muerte de un tangueroSonatine
Suite del Plata no.1
Variaciones sobre un tema de Atahualpa Yupanqui
Artists
George Tossikian (guitar)About
Variaciones sobre un tema de Atahualpa Yupanqui is based on a film theme by Yupanqui, possibly the most influential Argentine folk musician of the 20th century. The film, based on a book also by Yupanqui, is set in the Andes Mountains. The music therefore took inspiration from the vidala, an old folk music genre of the Argentine Northwest, which is an essential element in the festive and sacred rites of Andean communities. Pujol wrote five variations on the theme, involving rhythmic, harmonic and stylistic changes.
Elegía por la muerte de un tanguero is a three-part work for guitar dedicated to Astor Piazzolla. Pujol is a great admirer of Piazzolla, and it is notable that they both enjoy blending scholarly and popular music. In the three parts – Confuseta, En melancolía and Epílogo – the rhythmic parts contrast strikingly with the beautiful lyrical passages. The composer finishes the work using a quote from Astor Piazzolla’s La muerte del ángel, saluting the great Maestro.
Sonatina won Pujol many prestigious prizes, despite being one of his first compositions. A three-part work, it is characterised by rhythmic vitality and virtuosic energy as well as elegant melodies, and its conspicuous use of Argentinian dance forms. Suite del Plata no.1 brings together musical pieces from the area known as ‘La Cuenca del Plata’, an extensive region around the Río de la Plata. The piece begins with an atmospheric Prelude in A minor, followed by an urban and romantic Tango and then a nostalgic Milonga. The fourth part, Murga, is a form of popular music performed in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Panama and Argentina. A Candombe, an energetic dance of Uruguayan origin, closes the work.
In Pujol’s work, traditional tango and folk forms such as milonga, candombe and vals are just as present as classical forms like preludes and études, because Pujol strives for a fusion of traditional Argentine music with formal academic concepts. Máximo Diego Pujol’s guitar music is the expression of a universal lyricism, feeding on eternal feelings like melancholy, nostalgia, sensuality, passion, anger and love.
One of the most gifted and creative of modern Greek guitarists, George Tossikian was born in Piraeus in 1981. He has made several fine recordings of Greek and Latin-American music; his previous album for Brilliant Classics contained arrangements of music by Yann Tiersen.
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