Listen & tracks
5 works · 46:26
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Six Tango Etudes for Saxophone and PianoAstor Piazzolla 6 movements24:39
- 1 Etude no 6 4:07
- 2 Etude no 5 1:57
- 3 Etude no 4 3:55
- 4 Etude no 3 4:07
- 5 Etude no 2 7:35
- 6 Etude no 1 2:58
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7 Cita Carlos Guastavino 2:41
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8 Se equivocó la paloma Carlos Guastavino 2:17
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9 La rosa y el sauce Carlos Guastavino 4:26
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Cinco canciones populares argentinasAlberto Ginastera 5 movements12:23
- 10 Chacarera 1:53
- 11 Triste 3:26
- 12 Zamba 2:00
- 13 Arrorró 2:32
- 14 Gato 2:32
Piazzolla, Ginastera and Guastavino each explore a wide range of emotional states. Beyond that expressive force, the music chosen here sits across the usual lines between jazz, folk and classical forms.
Bringing those strands together, and opening a new dimension on the composers’ own ideas, made the project both exciting and demanding.
Reviews
This is one for the jazz enthusiast who enjoys a South American flavour... saxophonist Christina Leonard and pianist Matt McMahon, set out to create new dimensions, improvising on the composers' ideas... this CD makes very interesting listening
Artists
Christina Leonard
saxophone
Christina is committed to expanding the repertoire of music for saxophone and is highly involved in the arrangement and concert promotion of music in new frameworks.
Matt McMahon
piano
Matt McMahon is a Sydney-based pianist, keyboardist and composer. After studying music and English literature at Sydney University and jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, he has performed and recorded actively since 1993.
Carlos Guastavino
composer
Carlos Guastavino wrote hundreds of songs for voice and piano that stay tonal and lushly romantic, coloured by Argentine folk music. Favourites such as La rosa y el sauce and Se equivocó la paloma still turn up in recital and in chamber transcriptions.
Astor Piazzolla
composer
Astor Piazzolla turned the tango into something sharper, more restless and chamber-like. His nuevo tango draws jazz harmony and classical counterpoint into the dance without blunting its edge.
Alberto Ginastera
composer
Alberto Ginastera’s music pulls Argentine folk and gaucho tradition into classical form: dances and songs of direct national colour give way to later scores where those roots turn abstract, fierce and rhapsodic.
Performers
- Christina Leonard · saxophone
- Matt McMahon · piano
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 46 minutes 26 seconds
- Release date
- 2008
- Category
- Classical
- Musical work copyright
- © 2008 Christina Leonard
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2008 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MCD 392
- EAN
- 9314574039221
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