Share This
Album at a Glance
Record Label - Albany Records: "Interesting, imaginative releases – many, many world premieres. The music on Albany Records is uncommonly classical."Tags
Related Posts
- ‘Similar Motion” - Works for String Quartet by Philip Glass, Arthur Kampela, and Claude Debussy / Momenta Quartet
- Music from America & Abroad for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano / John Dee, oboe; Timothy McGovern, bassoon; Cara Chowning, piano
- Abdullah Ibrahim: The Song is My Story
- Georgy Catoire (1861-1926): Piano Music / Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Remembranza - Piano pieces by Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos; Nazareth, Granados, Albeniz / Rosa Antonelli, piano
Posted by Paul Ballyk on Mar 4, 2013 in Various Periods | 10 comments
Pianist Rosa Antonelli takes us on a musical tour of South America and Spain with this collection of beguiling pieces for solo piano titled Remembranza, remembrance of Latin sounds. The melancholy romantic music by Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazareth, Enrique Granados and Isaac Albéniz forms an attractive program that Ms. Antonelli performs with complete and natural fluency for the idiom.
Considered a leading exponent of Spanish and Latin American music, Rosa Antonelli made her debut at Carnegie Hall in October of 2011 with a program of music by mostly Argentine and Spanish composers. Several of the pieces from that recital are on this CD, including music from Albéniz' Suite Espanola, Op. 47 and four tangos by Piazzolla. One of the highlights for me on this disc is the Valsa Da Dor by Villa-Lobos. It's wonderful to hear what she does to make the 3/4 time of this unhurried and sadly beautiful waltz so supple and dreamlike.
This is among the most beautifully recorded CDs that I have heard from Albany Records. If you have an interest in this repertoire, you won't go wrong adding this immediately gratifying album to your collection.
Rosa Antonelli, a leading exponent of Spanish and Latin American music, offers her second recording on Albany Records.
Rosa Antonelli evokes the memories of Latin sounds for her second recording on Albany Records. Born in Argentina, Ms. Antonelli enjoys an active and varied performance career. She has been hailed as a leading exponent of Spanish and Latin American music, which she has performed to audiences around the world in extensive tours that have taken her to Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America. Trained at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires, she was also a participant in the International University Music Program in Santiago de Compostela where she received the Rosa Sabater Award for her interpretation of Spanish music. Her first recording on Albany Records, Esperanza-Sounds of Hope, received critical praise as did her New York debut at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, where Harris Goldsmith wrote that her “…inward poetry forced me to rehear, and revalue Piazzolla’s Tangos, which she infused with an eloquence and inner communication…”
Source: Albany Records
|
Piano: Rosa Antonelli Rosa Antonelli is enjoying an active and varied performance career. Her artistic insight and flawless technique are combined to create an impressive musical vision. She has been hailed by critics as a leading exponent of Spanish and Latin American music. In 1986 she was awarded the Rosa Sabater Price from the Spanish Government, for the best interpretation of Spanish music. For more information, please visit www.rosaantonelli.com. |
|
 Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla |
Composer: Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneónist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles. For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81stor_Piazzolla. |
 Ernesto Nazareth |
Composer: Ernesto Nazareth Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (March 20, 1863 – February 5, 1934) was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative Maxixe and Choro compositions. Influenced by African rhythms and many musical styles like the Lundu and the Choro, he never fully accepted this influence, refusing to give popular names to his compositions. For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Nazareth. |
 Enrique Granados |
Composer: Enrique Granados One of the most colorful turn-of-the-century Spanish musicians, composer and pianist Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is best remembered for his evocative solo piano works; his output also includes a great deal of orchestral music and six operas (only the last of which has gained any fame). Born to an officer in the Spanish army, Granados received his first musical instruction from an army bandmaster. For more information, please visit www.last.fm/music/Enrique+Granados. |
.jpg "Heitor Villa-Lobos") Heitor Villa-Lobos |
Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as “the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music”. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his “Bachianas Brasileiras” (Brazilian Bachian-pieces). For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Villa-Lobos. |
|
Composer: Isaac Albéniz Though celebrated as a composer for the piano, Isaac Albéniz by no means confined himself to piano music. Indeed he devoted more than a decade of his almost forty-nine years to writing music for the stage, while intermittently throughout his career he wrote songs - more than two dozen of them - as well as several orchestral and chamber works. Born in Camprodón, Gerona on 29 May 1860, Albéniz began life as a prodigy. For more information, please visit www.macmcclure.com/compositors/albeniz/bioeng.html. |
About Paul Ballyk
all about Paul
Twitter •
| Thinking about purchasing this album?
Follow this link for more album details or to make the purchase. Buy it now |
“Not just recommended. Guaranteed.”
We stand behind every album featured on Expedition Audio. Our objective is to take the monetary risk out of music exploration. If you order this album from HBDirect.com and do not like it you can return it for a refund.
Rosa Antonelli performs Astor Piazzolla's (1921-1992) Adiós Nonino
This CD is a confirmation that Ms. Antonelli truly has the Latin Spirit in her blood, and more importantly, the talent to convey this to us. She seems to deeply connect with Piazzolla, especially in La Ultima Grela and Adios Nonino; it is as tho she were feeling the same beautiful melancholy and range of emotions as he was, and we feel it too. In Granados’ “Allegro de Concerto” she is much more lyrical than most other performers i have heard. Typically most others show off their ‘chops’ by playing the ‘allegro’ part as presto or presttissimo, thereby losing the musicality. Her Villa-Lobos “Valsa Da Dor” is second to none. Even tho I have listened to it a hundred times, the phrasing and poetry are breath-taking and still takes me by surprise
IN A FEW SIMPLE WORDS I MUST SAY THAT THIS CD BY ROSA ANTONELLI HAS BEEN AN EPIC EJOYMENT, IT IS BY FAR A WONDERFUL CD PLAYED WITH SOUL AND EMOTION BY A MASTER AT THE PIANO
So glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
I have to say that i understand why she is a leading exponent of Spanish and Latin American Music!her performance is so touching , each note has a feeling .I love the Allegro the Concierto by Granados !! And of course Piazzolla and Villa -Lobos absolutely fantastic , A MASTER!
Rosa Antonelli’s interpretation of Latin American and Spanish music is absolutely impressive . Her sound is so reach and warm, from the heart. Bravo!You are a Master!
The best interpretation of latin music and argentinian tango I ever heard. Rosa is really amazing. Her sound is so deep and sensitive! She is the best pianist now a days, nobody has her magic and sensibility. I had the lucky to hear her at Carneghie Hall and really, she is unique.
Really a great cd played by Rosa Antonelli , Adios Nonino really fabulous !
I am not sure if Ms. Antonelli has something special in her fingers… but the way these tangos and her other Latino music sounds, really encourage me to give the best rate for this CD… it goes deeply into my soul
This CD brings me back to when I saw her live at Carnegie Hall. These tangos are marvelous! Rosa Antonelli on the piano….what a pleasure to hear!
Rosa, I really congratule you! Not only because you are an excellent profesional pianist also your pacience and dedication on this way which has became you in the best one around the world! Excellent the interpretation in your CD!