Barbara Nissman's excellent and authoritative recordings of the piano music of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera at one time belonged to a group of recordings purchased by Sony from Newport Classics and subsequently never used. Small Texas-based indie Pierian Recording Society deserves congratulations in recognizing the need for the return of these releases to the active catalog. This two-disc set Ginastera: The Complete Music for Piano and Piano Chamber Ensembles contains all of Ginastera's piano music save a tiny, two ...
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Barbara Nissman's excellent and authoritative recordings of the piano music of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera at one time belonged to a group of recordings purchased by Sony from Newport Classics and subsequently never used. Small Texas-based indie Pierian Recording Society deserves congratulations in recognizing the need for the return of these releases to the active catalog. This two-disc set Ginastera: The Complete Music for Piano and Piano Chamber Ensembles contains all of Ginastera's piano music save a tiny, two-minute scrap called the Peqeńa Danza. It also includes three chamber works, Pampeana No. 1 for violin and piano, Op. 16, Pampeana No. 2, Op. 21, and Sonata for cello & piano, Op. 49; and finally, Ginastera's Quintet for piano and string quartet, Op. 25.To some, Ginastera's extraordinary talents early on, and his easy assimilation of Argentine folk elements into a spicy Bartókian idiom, indicated he might become Argentina's answer to Heitor Villa-Lobos. This view also argues that...
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