Alma Petchersky - The Piano Music Of Alberto Ginastera (CD)

Release Date: 01/01/05Famous Argentinean composerThe piano music is at once percussive, virtuosic and lyrical, using musical forms ranging from full-scale sonatas to exquisite miniatures - preludes, dances and the work with which Petchersky's disc begins, the beautiful, songful Milonga, Op. 3. BBC Music Magazine. '...this is music of immediate communication, and for that attribute alone deserves to be played, heard, and savored. This disc of Ginastera's piano music runs the gamut from miniature to monster, early work to final statement. American Record Guide. Ginastera was a prolific Argentine composer that explored the synthesis of Latin American dance with the tradition of Western Classical Music. In this CD that includes so many of his piano works, folk idioms are at the forefront of his thinking and often made explicit by the music. Ginastera explores the piano as a percussive as well as a melodic instrument, also showing its Jazz influences. His piano music is most characteristic