Andreas Woyke - Festas Suramericanas (2018)

Tracklist
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01. Ciclo Brasileiro, W374: No. 1, Plantio do Caboclo
02. Ciclo Brasileiro, W374: No. 2, Impressões Seresteiras
03. Ciclo Brasileiro, W374: No. 3, Festa no Sertão
04. Ciclo Brasileiro, W374: No. 4, Danca do Indio Branco
05. Rudepoêma
06. Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22: I. Allegro marcato
07. Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22: II. Presto misterioso
08. Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22: III. Adagio molto appassionato
09. Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22: IV. Ruvido ed ostinato
10. 3 Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2: No. 1, Danza del Viejo Boyero
11. 3 Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2: No. 2, Danza de la Moza Donosa
12. 3 Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2: No. 3, Danza del Gaucho Matrero

The linguistically mixed title Festas Suramericanas (Portuguese- Spanish) already suggests that this recording by Andreas Woyke with piano music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Alberto Ginastera takes us into the realms of Brazil and Argentina. The release combines eruptive wildness and fragile tenderness of this strongly folklore-influenced music to untamed joy of life! The German pianist, Andreas Woyke, had an education shaped by various international influences - the Argentine pianist Aldo Antognazzi taught him in Siegen. In Cologne and Vienna he studies with the Russian pianists Pavel Gililov and Rudolf Kehrer. That time he won a number of international prizes: 1st prize at Brahms-Competition Hamburg, 1st prize at Austro Mechana in Vienna and 2nd prize and recital prize at UNISA Transnet competition in Pretoria. Andreas Woyke currently works as a freelance concert pianist living in Graz and teaches piano and chamber music at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (university for music and the performing arts) there. Between 2001 and 2010 he had been a regular guest teacher at the “Musik zentral” music festival in the Steiermark region of Austria, where, as well as giving conventional master classes, he managed an improvisation course specializing in jazz improvisation.

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