Alberto Ginastera Danzas Argentinas Opus 2 no. 2 - Danza de la moza donosa

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
-Danzas Argentinas Opus 2 no. 2 (1937) Danza de la moza donosa
Piano: Alberto Portugheis

Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires in 1916, and even in his childhood showed early promise as a performer and composer. His adolescent years were spent in formal studies at the Williams Conservatory, and within a few years of his admittance to the National Conservatory as an undergraduate, his music was receiving national acclaim in prominent performance venues. His initial reputation rested largely on his creative interpretations of and allusions to Argentinean folk materials, as realized in short-form pieces and suites, but by the late '40s and early '50s he had completed a number of more imposing works, such his Piano Sonata No. 1 and his first two string quartets. He had also ventured abroad, first to Tanglewood in 1941, where he became fast friends with Copland, then to other destinations throughout the U.S. in the late '40s, and finally to several venues in Europe during the early '50s, where works such as the Variaciones concertantes and Pampeana No. 3 enjoyed warm receptions. He likewise introduced internationally acclaimed composers to Argentina; he oversaw an ambitious department at Catholic University (1958-1963), and during his tenure as director of the Latin American Centre for Advanced Musical Studies (1963-1971) his invited guests included Messiaen, Nono, Dallapiccola, and Xenakis. Ginastera's works from the '60s, including the opera Don Rodrigo (1963-1964), grew more varied in their methods and ambitious in their scope.

Ginastera worked actively as a composer and champion of new music despite considerable external obstacles; his political views twice put him at odds with the Perón government, which forced his resignation from positions at the National Military Academy and the National University of La Plata (he regained the latter position after Perón's defeat). Personal problems, including marital strife, stifled his productivity in the late '60s, but his divorce and subsequent marriage to cellist Aurora Natola, and his retirement to Switzerland after decades of teaching in Argentina's most prominent musical institutions, gave Ginastera his second wind; his last years were among his most fruitful.

Alberto Portugheis was born in La Plata, Argentina, to parents of Russian and Rumanian descent. He studied in Buenos Aires with the celebrated Vincenzo Scaramuzza (who also taught Martha Argerich), in Geneva with Madeleine Lipatti, Louis Hiltbrand and Youra Güller.

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[celticbp]

@CalumMcNamaraHimself It's true that pieces are to be played and songs are to be sung, but you don't have to be so high and mighty about it. You should keep in mind that not everybody has studied music and cut them a little slack. You're like that kid that went to college and became an elitist, and nobody likes that kid. Anyway, it is an amazing piece.

[itswillo]

a song doesn't have to have words. it can be a musical composition. but i digress, appreciate the music, don't criticize it.

[ecoylly1]

beautiful



[Jessicariscless]

the repeat button is just getting hit again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. So beautiful

[crUUw]

Absolutely beautiful, my favourite piece to play(:

[TheWanderingNight]

Parts of the melody remind me of Tchaikovsky's "Autumn Song", with a touch of Debussy.

[DylanCsharpminorG]

@CalumMcNamaraHimself

It's not a simple matter of truth and falsehood. Like I said, context. Are you writing an essay? Yes? You'll bomb almightily if you write under the misapprehension that The Waste Land is a novel. But you're not writing an essay. You're talking to people who are listening to music for pleasure, to whom it makes no difference whether it's a 'song' or not, much as it makes no difference to any of us in day to day lfie that what we call our 'weight' is our 'mass'.

[DylanCsharpminorG]

@CalumMcNamaraHimself

As a student currently pursuing a degree in music, I can say with certainty songs have words. I can also say that it's completely irrelevant unless you're writing an essay for college or being an arsewipe with a superiority complex.

[junkmarmot]

If a tree falls in the forest with no one to hear it, does go shoo-doo-shoo-bee-ooo-bee?

[cutieluck15]

@forscyvus LOL it's ginastera...not danny devito

[BeeferPig]

@ragtimest same dealio piano playing buddeh