Time: 46:32
Size: 106.5 MB
Styles: Piano, World music
Year: 2003
Art: Front
[ 5:27] 1. Los Mareados
[ 3:54] 2. La Cumparsita
[ 5:23] 3. La Casita De Mis Viejos
[ 4:59] 4. Tema De La Nube
[ 4:14] 5. Chau Paris
[16:59] 6. Gardel X 4 (Soledad)
[ 3:13] 7. Improvisaciones I
[ 2:19] 8. Improvisaciones II
Composer and pianist, were born in Buenos Aires in 1936. He carried out composition studies with Alberto Ginastera and then in the Academy Santa Cecilia from Rome with Goffredo Petrassi. Their piano studies were carried out with the guide of Pious Sebastiani, Roberto Caamaño and Ivonne Loriod. As composer he has received numerous distinctions and scholarships. Among the last ones, that of the Institute of International Education (Young Artist Project"), in New york in 1964-1965, that of the Italian Government, in Rome, in 1966y the Guggenheim in 1982. He/she obtained the Municipal Prize of Composition (Buenos Aires, 1960), the first prize in the international competition organized by the Congress for the Freedom of the Culture (Rome, 1962), the first prize of music of camera of the Argentinean Mozarteum (1963), the Prize of the Musical Youths from Spain (1970), the prize Opera of Camera of the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires (1971); in 1974 it was selected as one of the Ten Young Sobresaliantes of the Aryan in the Argentina and in 1977, it was granted him the Premio Moliére of the government from France for music for theater. They have been commissioned him works for the Asociación Amigos of the Music of Buenos Aires, for the September Musical tucumano", the Paul Fromm music Foundation, Esso Argentina", the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires, etc.
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thanks a lot!!!
ReplyDeleteThe "Blue Moon" in the 2nd "Improvisaciones" at the end sort of jolted me out of my pleasant narcotic tango daze. But, overall, this was pretty hard to resist. Beautifully original and piano-percussive take on La Cumparsita! Made me nearly forget that it's one of the most overplayed songs in the universe. Yeah, this was really good.
ReplyDeleteA while ago, I wrote something only about 60% enthusiastic about this Gandini CD after a single distracted listening, and my conscience has been gnawing at me. Amends are in order, so, if anyone happens to read this and if you that anyone has ever discovered any weakness for latterday tango in him/herself, please, listen to this one, you won’t regret it, it’s great – of (un)equal parts tango, the conservatory, and improvisatory jazz. (If I have any reservation, it’s just that out-of-the-blue “Blue Moon” at the end.) Gandini was not just anybody, either. He played piano with Piazzola’s Sexteto Nuevo Tango. Notice that, if you search his name here on Silky D, you’ll find him credited both on Piazzola’s Lausanne concert album and also on the very familiar Yo-Yo Ma tango album. He did not, like Piazzola and virtually everybody else who mattered in 20th Century erudite music, study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, but he did attend Juilliard in New York, he studied and worked with Ginastera at home, and he served as music director both at the BsAs Philharmonic and at the Teatro Colón. (Does this make him a kind of Argentine Leonard Bernstein? Yeah, could be.) Please, give this one a shot. I’m embarrassed about what I wrote previously, and I want to make up for it. The riffs on classic tangos “El Dia que me quieras” and “Por uma cabeza” on the present CD are – no kidding – spectacular! And I would just add that I went and looked in my own collection under “Argentina” and I found I already had a Gandini item under the title “Los Mareados.” It starts off with a completely different riff on “El Dia que me quieras” – but much dreamier than the one on the CD posted here. Between the two CDs I have compared, the one here on SD is, in my opinion, the richer, in large part because it eschews the other one’s cocktail-hour seductiveness (not that there’s anything wrong w cocktail-hour seductiveness, I myself am a sucker for cocktail-hour music). FYI, Gandini composed numerous orchestral works and several operas, including one under the title “La Pasión de Buster Keaton.” It would be a treat to sample that one, but I have not done so. On a cursory Internet search, I see no evidence that it has even been recorded. Of the albums I’ve downloaded recently from SD, this is the one Barbara and I have listened to most repeatedly.
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