Marcela Roggeri, Florent Héau - Melodias Argentinas (2010)

Tracklist

01. Bailecito
02. Rosita Iglesias
03. Pampamapa (Doce Canciones Populares)
04. La Rosa Y el Sauce
05. Encantamiento (Seis Canciones de Cuna)
06. Gato
07. Tonada Y Cueca: Tonada
08. Tonada Y Cueca: Cueca
09. Sonatine pour piano: Allegretto
10. Sonatine pour piano: Lento muy expresivo
11. Sonatine pour piano: Presto
12. Se Equivoco la Paloma
13. Abismo de Sed (Doce Canciones Populares)
14. El Sampedrino (Doce Canciones Populares)
15. Sonate pour clarinette et piano: Allegro deciso
16. Sonate pour clarinette et piano: Andante
17. Sonate pour clarinette et piano: Rondo. Allegro spiritoso
18. Pueblito Mi Pueblo (Cancion Argentina)

Carlos Guastavino, born just four years before Ginastera and nine years before Piazzolla, was no less influenced by Argentine vernacular music than either of those other Argentine masters. But it was the Creole folk music of rural Argentina that showed up in his music, not the urban sound of the tango, and he treated that folk music in a thoroughly romantic way. Guastavino was an attractive melodist known mostly for his songs. Those are stripped of their texts here and arranged for clarinet and piano. Given the fact that an hour of Guastavino and nobody else is quite a bit, the listener may wonder about the point of this. But the program is broken up by Guastavino's brisk little Sonatine for piano, some other fun salon pieces, and a clarinet-and-piano sonata that adopts a Brahmsian idiom wholesale. It's never less than pleasant, and clarinetist Florent Héau and pianist Marcela Roggeri are in touch with its considerable charm. Probably of most interest to Argentine music fans, but quite listenable.

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