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GUARNIERI: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3

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Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993) Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mozart Camargo Guarnieri is universally recognised as the most important Brazilian...

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Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993)

Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 3

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri is universally recognised as the most important Brazilian composer after Villa- Lobos. His impact on the musical life of Brazil, as a composer, teacher, and conductor, can hardly be overestimated. Guarnieri influenced a new generation of nationalist composers for whom the use of folk material was not so much a compositional premise, as it had been earlier in the century, but rather one additional source of material that could be freely combined with elements derived from other musical traditions. This new approach lent their work an aura of universality coloured by regionalism, which remains highly appealing to a foreign audience. No one combined and balanced these materials with greater sensitivity, inspiration, and compositional virtuosity than Guarnieri, and yet the most astonishing aspect of his aesthetic approach to nationalism is that he shied away from quoting any traditional melody (as Villa-Lobos and many of Guarnieri's contemporaries did), preferring instead to evoke the particular rhythms, melodies, and sonorities that characterize Brazilian music through completely invented material.

Guarnieri's nationalism is best understood within the broader context of the aesthetic pluralism that characterized the second half of the twentieth century, when nationalism was no longer an expedient for labeling some musical cultures as peripheral or exotic.

Guarnieri's nationalism was of the same kind that made possible the highly inventive music of composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Bartok, Ginastera, and Copland.

Guarnieri's musical personality makes an immediate impression, as Copland himself had an opportunity to experience. In 1941, following an extended trip through South America, Copland reflected on his experiences and his exposure to the musical trends then in vogue in the continent. He was particularly struck with the diversity of musical traditions in Brazil, and his discovery of a thriving artmusic culture was undoubtedly surprising to him.

Among the composers he met was Guarnieri, whom he assessed in highly complimentary terms:

Guarnieri is the most exciting talent among Latin American composers. He possesses all the necessary credentials, as well as an impeccable compositional technique, a fertile imagination, and an uncommon personality... His works are more organically integrated than those of Villa-Lobos, without being any less reflective of Brazilian traditions. But what I like best about his music is its healthy emotional expression. He is the most authentic musician of the continent.

Disc 1

Piano Concerto No. 1

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Performed by: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Camargo Guarnieri
Conducted by: Thomas Conlin
Max Barros, piano

I. Salvagem - 7:30
II. Saudosamente - 6:01
III. Depressa - 6:13

Piano Concerto No. 2

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Performed by: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Camargo Guarnieri
Conducted by: Thomas Conlin
Max Barros, piano

I. Decidido - 7:44
II. Afetuoso: Scherzando - 8:24
III. Vivo - 6:42

Piano Concerto No. 3

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Performed by: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Camargo Guarnieri
Conducted by: Thomas Conlin
Max Barros, piano

I. Allegro deciso - 8:01
II. Magoado - 11:45
III. Festivo - 7:20

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Composer(s):
Guarnieri, Camargo

Conductor(s):
Conlin, Thomas

Orchestra(s):
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Artist(s):
Barros, Max

Label: Naxos Classics
UPC: 747313266623
Item Number: 8557666
Release Date: Mar 22, 2005