| Montero, Gabriela / Piano Recital |
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| Album: | Piano Recital | Collection: | Classical | |
| Artist: | Montero, Gabriela | Added: | Oct 2006 | |
| Label: | Emi Classics | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-10-15 | Pull Date: | 2006-12-17 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Dec 17 | Dec 3 | Nov 26 | Nov 12 | Nov 5 | Oct 29 | Oct 22 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 11, 2015: | Subbing Scriabin - Etude In C Sharp Minor, Scriabin - Prelude In G, Scriabin - Prelude In E Flat Minor, Scriabin - Prelude In D Flat | 4. | Nov 30, 2006: | beat.net chapter 54.0: trip over beat.net [sub] Rachmaninov - Moment Musical In E Minor | |
| 2. | Jul 04, 2009: | Music Casserole Scriabin - Etude In C Sharp Minor | 5. | Nov 19, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Chopin - Fantasisie-Impormptu In C Sharp Minor | |
| 3. | Dec 14, 2006: | Old New Borrowed & Blues In The Style Of A Tango, Chopin - Fantasisie-Impormptu In C Sharp Minor | 6. | Nov 05, 2006: | Multiple Personality Disorder Ginastera - Danza Del Gaucho Matrero |
| Album Review |
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| mufaor Reviewed 2006-10-18 | ||
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Classical piano. Disc 1 is late 19th / early 20th century compositions, and disc 2 is jazzy improvisations based on (mostly) the same. Disc 1 rocks. Brilliant technique, rich tone and thoughtful interpretations. She plays some of the most comprehensible Scriabin I’ve ever heard. Track 7 blows my mind. I don’t really “get” disc 2 – most of the tracks sound like boring jazz noodling and all sound very similar. With a few exceptions, I can’t hear how these are related to the pieces she references. Wow on CD 1 though! Favs Disc 1: 1, 7, 8, 10 – Disc 2: 7, 9. FCC clean. *1. Busy romantic piano, lush, minor key. It’s by Rachmaninov but sounds very Liszt. 2. Slow and “pretty”. 3. Heavy chordal Rachmaninov. 4. Mid-slow Scriabin – slightly odd harmonic changes. 5. Very slow – only melody at beginning and end, spare chords in middle. 6. Slow Scriabin – feels crazy somehow, i.e. incoherent (which is cool here) **7. Crazier. Fuck yeah. Scriabin at his best. Fast. The jewel of this CD set. *8. Nearly as good as track 7. spanish. Cool trills and rolled chords. Fiery. 9. Slow spanish – between chopin liszt and debussy – doesn’t really go anywhere. *10. Dissonant and catchy. Fast. By Ginastera - Argentinean composer, uses lots of disjunct rhythms, 7/4 time signatures, etc. 11. Slow, a cross between Latin American, romantic classical music, and new age. 12. Fast, driving, train-like. 13. Bluesy harmonies. Chopin. 14. One of the most famous Chopin pieces. As good as I’ve ever heard it. Perfect on the rubato – not overdone and not ignored. 15. The title says it all: Mephisto Waltz. Devlish/spritely. Impossibly fast and clear scale runs. Sorta ridiculous but cool. The longest track at 11:39. Disc 2: 1. Romantic loungy, jazzy, bluesy. 2. Very slow, pretty. 3. Swirly jazz – does sound a bit like Chopin’s D flat Nocturne. 4. Sounds most like the classical piece she references of any of these here. Cool to hear the original melody lines against a less intense chordal background than in the concerto. 5. Romantic piano, lush chords. 6. More of the same… slow, romantic, lots of swirly scales, half jazz/half classical chords. *7. Ah, finally some different harmonies! Based on a tango. Great, fun. 8. Slow romantic, slightly Spanish-sounding. *9. Sounds very Bach – lots of fun trills – way more original-sounding than the other tracks here. 10. Eerie chords, then a juxtaposition of chromatic runs, blues, ragtime, and lounge jazz. 11. Very slow, relaxed. Her own composition. The next track is better though. 12. Slow and personal. Again, her own composition. | ||
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