Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin: Asturiana. Songs from Spain and Argentina

Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin

Asturiana. Songs from Spain and Argentina

Transcriptions for Viola and Piano

Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados,

Carlos Guastavino, Alberto Ginastera,do

Xavier Montsalvatge, Carlos Lopez Buchar

Reviews :

Gramophone : November 2007

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BBC music magazine : Robert Maycock / December 2007

Performance : *****

Sound : ****

It looks like a standard song recital, yet it’s played on the viola. Three of somebody’s favourite tracks appear twice scattered through the disc, including the opening excerpt from Falla’s Seven Popular Songs, which turns up later in its usual context to hypnotic effect: slower than would be singable, and so contemplative that it sounds like Arvo Part. The sense of concentration, with minute inflections of line and timbre in which the pianist is caught up too, continues into the ensuing Granados set.

While the Montsalvatge songs, from his Canciones negras, are nearly as familiar as the other Spanish, there are also some less familiar items. Gustavino’s wondrous ‘La rosa y el sauce’, full of haunting sequences like a Latin version of Rachmaninov’s ‘Vocalise’, well deserving its encore; then the final ‘Oye mi llanto’ by Buchardo, broad, frank, sorrowful, appearing once but destined to be replayed immediately.

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01. De Falla : Asturiana 02. Granados : El Mirar De La Maja 03. Granados : El Majo Ovidado (A Emilio De Gogorza) 04. Granados : La Maja Dolorosa 3 05. Granados : El Majo Discreto 06. Guastavino : La Rosa Y El Sauce 07. Ginastera : Triste 08. Montsalvatge : De Cuna Para Dormir Un Negrito (A Mercedes Plantado) 09. Montsalvatge : Chevere ( A Santiago Kastner) 10. Montsalvatge : Cuba Dentro De Un Piano ( A Conception Badia De Agusti) 11. Montsalvatge : Punto De Habanera ( A Lola Rodriguez De Aragon) 12. De Falla : (Sette Canciones - A Madame Ida Godebska) : El Pano Moruno 13. De Falla : Seguidilla Murciana 14. De Falla : Asturiana 15. De Falla : Jota 16. De Falla : Nana 17. De Falla : Cancion 18. De Falla : Polo 19. Ginastera : Triste 20. Guastavino : Se Equivoco La Paloma ( A Maria Pini De Chrestia) 21. Guastavino : Abismo De Sed 22. Guastavino : Pampamapa 23. Guastavino : Bonita Rama De Sauce 24. Guastavino : La Rosa Y El Sauce 25. Buchardo : Prendiditos La Mano ( A Esther Liavallol De Roca) 26. Buchardo : Oye Mi Llanto ( A Miguel Mastrogianni)

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