Ginastera's Garden

[Symphonic Addict]

Ginastera has given me great pleasure lately. His chamber works are proving to be something else. Earlier I took a listen to the Guitar Sonata, and again, a wondrous creation portraying vividly his Latin American soul. Amazing stuff.

[Mirror Image]

Ginastera has given me great pleasure lately. His chamber works are proving to be something else. Earlier I took a listen to the Guitar Sonata, and again, a wondrous creation portraying vividly his Latin American soul. Amazing stuff.

I think if more orchestras/chamber ensembles would schedule Latin American music on their concert programs, especially from Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, Chávez, Revueltas and Guarnieri, then you would see an increased interest in this area of classical music.

[Roasted Swan]

I think if more orchestras/chamber ensembles would schedule Latin American music on their concert programs, especially from Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, Chávez, Revueltas and Guarnieri, then you would see an increased interest in this area of classical music.

++++1 - the neglect/ignorance of the sheer range and quality of CM from Latin America is mind-boggling.  Literally an entire continent is known by the last movement of Estancia and the Little Train of the Caipera (with a Bachianas Brasileiras and a Mexican Hat Dance thrown in too).  Gross exageration I know - but you get my drift!

[Mirror Image]

++++1 - the neglect/ignorance of the sheer range and quality of CM from Latin America is mind-boggling.  Literally an entire continent is known by the last movement of Estancia and the Little Train of the Caipera (with a Bachianas Brasileiras and a Mexican Hat Dance thrown in too).  Gross exageration I know - but you get my drift!

Absolutely!

[Uhor]

I'm listening to his last opera "Beatrix Cenci", which has all the avant-garde tricks from that time (1971): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS07-JVlzJo&t=743s

[bhodges]

A very fine performance of Ginastera's Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Unusual structure, opening with a remarkable cadenza for the violin alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UKzuLXhYCI

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Watching this, this week.

[ritter]

Looks very interesting, Karl. It seems that release isn't available in Europe

Good day to you.

[Symphonic Addict]

I found Popol Vuh and Cantata para América Mágica from this disc to be largely fascinating and both have a sort of ritualistic, ceremonial character that is quite effective. Ginastera proves to be a magician with the orchestra, especially the percussion section; those sonorities, textures and effects are something else.

[Symphonic Addict]

I was revisiting this superb disc of his two cello concertos, and wow, there's some impactful music on them. Both possess a quite dark, brooding, forbidding countenance that becomes quite baleful at times, and one thing that struck me like especially captivating and that differentiates them from works by other composers is the mystic folk element, the ritualistic feature enhancing and making the atmosphere more vivid (often helped by the masterful use of the percussion section), which often resembles nocturnal music. In fact, both concertos contain tempo markings in two of their movements making an allusion to night, the Trio notturnale in the first concerto, and Nottilucente (Noctilucent) in the second one. Really stupendous altogether.

All in all, absorbing music at its best that demands full attention.

[Symphonic Addict]

Thoroughly impressed by this recording of Ginastera's Violin Concerto (yes, I just heard this recording for the first time). Not only is it splendidly played (this work fits Hahn like a glove), but also quite well-recorded. I've listened to other two performances of this work and none has been as revelatory as this one, being the first time this work makes sense to me.

[foxandpeng]

I was revisiting this superb disc of his two cello concertos, and wow, there's some impactful music on them. Both possess a quite dark, brooding, forbidding countenance that becomes quite baleful at times, and one thing that struck me like especially captivating and that differentiates them from works by other composers is the mystic folk element, the ritualistic feature enhancing and making the atmosphere more vivid (often helped by the masterful use of the percussion section), which often resembles nocturnal music. In fact, both concertos contain tempo markings in two of their movements making an allusion to night, the Trio notturnale in the first concerto, and Nottilucente (Noctilucent) in the second one. Really stupendous altogether.

All in all, absorbing music at its best that demands full attention.

One for my listening list, thank you 😊