Sur - Piano Music from Argentina

Agustin Muriago

Sur - Piano Music from Argentina

Lilian SABA (b.1961)

Para Empezar a Volar

Tres Marias

Jose RESTA (1880-1962)

Tres Danzas

Aire de Tango 

Vidalita

Bailecito

Juan Jose RAMOS (1930-1995)

Vals Miraflores

Manuel GOMEZ CARRILLO (1883-1968)

Fiesta Criolla

Miguel FRANCESE (1913-1970)

Triste

Lia CIMAGLIA (1906-1998)

Recuerdos de mi Tierra

Evocacion Criolla

Danza

Milonga

Zapateado

Arturo LUZZATTI (1875-1959)

Aire de Milonga

Leonardo BRUNELLI (1929-1964)

Milonga, Op.2

Carlos AGUIRRE (b.1965)

Milonga Gris

Adolfo CIPRIOTA (1879-1944)

Bocetos del Litoral

En la Llanura

Idilio Campero

Ladera Resbaladiza

Osvaldo GOLIJOV (b.1960)

Levante

Agustin Muriago (piano)

Review:

The pianist Agustin Muriago brings us a solo listen, where he tips his hat to Argentine composers with various backgrounds and time periods whose works revolve around folk music.

“Para Empezar a Volar”, by Lillán Saba, opens with the warm keys emitting much beauty and wonder, and it isn’t long until José Resta’s “Tres Danzas” unfolds across 3 segments of dreamy and heartfelt key progressions that leave a stirring impression but can also be firm.

Further along, "Fiesta Criolla”, by Manuel Gómez Carillo, illustrates a highly melodic mood of bright finger acrobatics, while “Recuerdos de mi Tierraz” is both minimal and vivid, where the complicated keys radiate for 4 unpredictable chapters in the Lía Cimaglia original.

Moving towards the end, “Milonga, Op. 2” offers a cinematic moment of poeticism via Leonardo Brunelli’s vision, and Osvaldo Golijov’s “Levante” exits with a dense appeal of fascinating key manipulation.

A collection of songs that showcase stylized versions of milongas, tangos,and vidalas, Muriago bring incredible skill and execution to these worldly selections. 

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In his introduction, pianist Agustin Muriago says that “This recording showcases Argentine composers from different backgrounds and time periods whose works are rooted in folk music. Most of these composers combined a Eurocentric musical tradition with Argentine folk music, producing stylized versions of milongas, tangos, and vidalas…” Agustin Muriago has presented recitals featuring Latin-American music at festivals in Hong Kong, New York, the Sonus International Music Festival and the Latin American Music Center, among others and offered recitals, lectures, and master classes in China, Chile, Brazil, and the U.S. A graduate of The Hartt School, New York University, and Rowan University, he now serves on the faculty at the Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University.