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Ginastera - Panambi (complete), Estancia (complete) | Naxos 8557582

Ginastera - Panambi (complete), Estancia (complete)

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557582

Barcode: 0747313258222

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 30th October 2006

Contents

Artists

Luis Gaeta (narrator/bass-baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gisèle Ben-Dor

Works

Ginastera, Alberto

Estancia, op.8
Panambi, op.1

Artists

Luis Gaeta (narrator/bass-baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gisèle Ben-Dor

About

Both of these delightful ballets are again presented in their world première recording, given by the illustrious London Symphony Orchestra under the command of Gisele Ben-Dor (previously released and now discontinued on Conifer Classics).  Recently reviewed in Gramophone, the recording was praised in the following terms: “Strikingly virtuosic playing throughout by the LSO, and spectacular recording quality, add up to a whole-hearted recommendation of the disc.” 
 
Much admired by Copland, several of the fifty-five works composed by Alberto Ginastera stand as landmarks of Latin-American artistic creation and have earned him a place – together with the Mexican Carlos Chávez and the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos – among the greatest and most original composers of the twentieth century.  Ginastera’s two ballets are no exception to this rule. 
 
The two ballets featured on this recording belong to Ginastera’s early period when he was eager to promote an authentically national voice in his work through the use of Argentine folk and popular elements. The exotically scored Panambí is based on a romantic and supernatural legend of love and magic from the Guaraní Indians, a tribe from the headwaters of the Rio Paraná in northern Argentina.
 
Estancia (a farm or cattle ranch) is a powerful and passionate evocation of the vast and enigmatic Argentine pampas and the spirit of “the unlucky gaucho, who has no one to call to, with no place of his own in all that space, and in all that darkness”. This is the first ever complete recording of Estancia.

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