La Muerte del Angel

The Ames Piano Quartet

Catalog #: TROY1052
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Format: Digital
Chamber

For all the differences among them, Joaquín Turina, Alexandre Tansman, and Carlos Surinach were alike in one regard: each was sympathetic to making his music an affirmation of his cultural heritage. At the same time, their lives spanned a period when modernism was sweeping away the romantic tenets that had upheld 19th-century nationalism. Hence, each came to fashion a distinctive amalgam of nationalist tendencies and newly emergent techniques and modes of thought. Given beautiful performances by the Ames Piano Quartet, the recording ends with a work by Astor Piazzolla that was written as part of the incidental music for a play by Alberto Rodriguez Muñoz.

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Track Listing

Title Composer Performer
Suite-Divertissement Alexandre Tansman Ames Piano Quartet
La Muerte del Ángel Astor Piazzolla Ames Piano Quartet
Quartet Carlos Surinach Ames Piano Quartet
Quartet in A Minor, Op. 67 Joaquín Turina Ames Piano Quartet

Reviews

  • "The whole program is exceptionally well performed by the Ames Piano Quartet...Their tight ensemble and rhythmic inflection show a true understanding of the Spanish idiom...Highly recommended, especially for the unusual repertoire."

    – Fanfare

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