Ginastera: Orchestral Works 3
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ALBERTO GINASTERA
Ginastera: Orchestral Works 3
Xiayin Wang (piano), BBC Philharmonic
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 7 September 2018
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In his final year as BBC Philharmonic's Chief Conductor, Juanjo Mena completes a highly-acclaimed Ginastera series with this third volume. Like in his previous series 'La Musica de España', Mena brings the composer's creative genius to a more deserved fame, showcasing here three works that belonged to three different period of his compositional life.
While the Concierto Argentino is the most significant score of his early years, drawing directly on Argentinian folk music and full of youthful exuberance, the Variaciones Concertantes (more a concerto for orchestra than a set of variations) assumes a more personal and abstract form in accordance with the development of his harmonic ideas in the later stage of his life.
The rhythmic energy and magic scoring of the 'neo-expressionist' piano concerto (as Ginastera defined the third phase of his life) is faithfully expressed by the highly technical and virtuosic playing of Xiayin Wang, widely praised for her recent solo recording of piano works by Enrique Granados.
"Both concertos enjoy bright, barnstorming performances from pianist Xiayin Wang accompanied with matching flair by the BBC Philharmonic, whose section leaders offer some really heartfelt and magnificently projected performances…Big plaudits to the BBC Philharmonic, whose section leaders offer some really heartfelt and magnificently projected performances." BBC Music
"There's a mercurial quality in Wang's playing that gives her performance of the First Concerto a markedly choreographic feeling…The BBC Philharmonic have gone from strength to strength in this series. They are superb, idiomatic partners for Wang in the concertos and have the opportunity for their own virtuoso display in the Variaciones concertantes…Mena's reading is refined yet full of subtle feeling and the recorded sound is spectacular." Gramophone
