Prado: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Aurora / Concerto Fribourgeois
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ALMEIDA PRADO
Prado: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Aurora / Concerto Fribourgeois
Sonia Rubinsky (piano) / Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra, Fabio Mechetti
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 May 2020
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At the time of his death in 2010, Almeida Prado was one of Brazil's most internationally admired composers, one who created music of unique sonority and colour, rooted in his native country. In Aurora ('Dawn') he employs his newly developed 'transtonality' to radiant effect, while the Concerto Fribourgeois features a collage technique. In his Piano Concerto No. 1 Almeida Prado explores a cogent structure in which the soloist opens up, rips apart or transforms the theme and variations, in a work that is both grandiose and luminous.
"José Antonio de Almeida Prado, whose massive cycle of piano tone poems, Cartas Celestes, were so brilliantly played and recorded by pianist Aleyson Scopel, here has three of his piano-orchestral works given first recordings by Brazilian-Polish-Lithuanian pianist (how's that for a combination of nationalities?) Sonia Rubinsky...This is quite a listening experience! For lovers of modern music, an indispensable disc." © 2020 The Art Music Lounge
Tracks:
Piano Concerto No. 1
Aurora
Concerto Fribourgeois
