Ibérica
Spanish music for cello and guitar, and remarkable chemistry between players
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Composer or Director: Gaspar Cassadó, Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Manuel de Falla
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Naïve
Magazine Review Date: 3/2010
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: V5182

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(La) Vida breve, Movement: Danse espagnole No.1 |
Manuel de Falla, Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Manuel de Falla, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(7) Canciones populares españolas |
Manuel de Falla, Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Manuel de Falla, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
Leyenda catalana |
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
Catalanesca |
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
Canción de Leonardo |
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(El) Sombrero de tres picos, Movement: Suite No. 1 (Scenes and Dances) |
Manuel de Falla, Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Manuel de Falla, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(El) Amor Brujo, Movement: Song of the Will o' the Wisp |
Manuel de Falla, Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Manuel de Falla, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
Goyescas, Movement: Intermezzo |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(El) Sombrero de tres picos, Movement: Suite No. 2 (Three dances) |
Manuel de Falla, Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Manuel de Falla, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
Suite for Cello |
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Gaspar Cassadó, Composer |
(15) Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, Movement: El mirar de la Maja |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(12) Danzas españolas, Movement: Andaluza (Playera) |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(15) Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, Movement: El tra la la y el punteado |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(15) Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, Movement: Amor y odio |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(15) Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, Movement: El majo Olvidado |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(15) Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, Movement: El majo discreto |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(15) Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, Movement: La maja dolorosa |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(15) Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, Movement: El majo timido |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(15) Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, Movement: La maja de Goya |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
(El) Amor Brujo, Movement: The Magic Circle (The Fisherman's Story) |
Manuel de Falla, Composer
Anne Gastinel, Cello Manuel de Falla, Composer Pablo Márquez, Guitar |
Author: William Yeoman
This engaging new release leaves no doubt that the sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy song of the cello can pull off a Spanish accent just as well as that of the classical guitar. With “Ibérica”, French cellist Anne Gastinel and Argentinean guitarist Pablo Márquez (whose recording of the vihuela music of Luys de Narváez so impressed recently – ECM, 10/07) bring an urbane and sophisticated yet earthy and sensual quality to the songs and dances of Falla and Granados, as well as the solo guitar and solo cello music of the great Spanish cellist and friend of Andrés Segovia, Gaspar Cassadó. The opening Danza española No 1 from Falla’s La vida breve is a revelation, Gastinel’s spiccato-studded bowing showering fiery notes over Márquez’s crisply articulated accompaniment; the Intermezzo from Granados’s opera Goyescas and the same composer’s tonadilla La maja dolorosa meanwhile highlights the intense beauty of Gastinel’scantabile playing.
In another tonadilla, the well known La maja de Goya, Márquez displays the finely nuanced singing quality of his own playing; he is equally convincing in three works for solo guitar by Cassadó (here recorded for the first time), especially in the moving Canción de Leonardo, a homage to Segovia’s young son who was killed in an accident in 1951.
Gastinel also makes a solo contribution with Cassadó’s famous Suite for solo cello, fully availing herself of the expressive possibilities of this superb, multifaceted work. But this disc ultimately belongs to the chemistry that seems to exist between these two remarkable musicians.
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