Ginastera: Panambí; Estancia

Ginastera: Panambí; Estancia

Ginastera: Panambí; Estancia
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Composer: Alberto Ginastera
Conductor: Gisele Ben-Dor
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
  1. Moonlight On The Parana
  2. Native Festival
  3. Girls' Round Dance
  4. Warriors' Dance
  5. Scene
  6. Pantomime Of Eternal Love
  7. Guirahu's Song
  8. The Sorcerer Approaches Guirahu/The Water Sprites Appear/The Sorcerer Hides
  9. The Water Sprites Play
  10. The Sorcerer's Cries
  11. The Tribe Is Uneasy/Panambi's Prayer
  12. Invocation To The Spirits Of Power
  13. Dance Of The Sorcerer
  14. The Sorcerer Speaks
  15. The Girls' Lament
  16. Tupa Appears/The Warriors Threaten The Sorcerer
  17. Dawn
  18. Scene I: Dawn: Introduction And Scena
  19. Little Dance
  20. Scene II: Morning: Wheat Dance
  21. The Farm Labourers
  22. The Cattlemen: Entry Of The Foals
  23. The Townsfolk
  24. Scene III: Afternoon: 'Triste' From The Pampas
  25. Rodeo
  26. Twilight Idyll
  27. Scene IV: Night; Nocturne
  28. Scene V: Dawn: Scena
  29. Final Dance: Malambo

Music reviews of Ginastera: Panambí; Estancia

Music Review: Explosive sounds from Argentina
Rating: 5 Stars

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) ranks with Carlos Chavez, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Silvestre Revueltas as one of the best known (and most revered) Latin American composers. A native of Argentina, Ginastera was a "nationalist" composer who made use of his country's folk music and rhythms in many his works.

This newest addition to Naxos's LATIN AMERICAN CLASSICS series highlights two of Ginastera's earliest works, the ballets PANAMBI and ESTANCIA.

PANAMBI, Ginestera's opus 1 which was written in 1937, is based on the supernatural tales of the Guarani Indians from northern Argentina.

Brimming with suspenseful, dreamlike melodies and contrasting hard-hitting rhythms and audacious percussion, PANAMBI, something of a pagan pageant, can be easily considered the Argentinean version of THE RITE OF SPRING. In fact, I have never heard a "Stravinsky-influenced" piece sound more like Stravinsky than this. Indeed, this is not negative; Ginastera's intrinsic originality and Latin sentiment shine throughout PANAMBI even though Stravinsky's presence ever looms in the background.

More original (but no less exciting) is Ginastera's music from the ballet ESTANCIA written in 1941. Set on the vast, lonely Argentinean plains (the pampas), ESTANCIA a nostalgic glorification of the gaucho (cowboy) and of his difficult yet vigorous life.

The music of ESTANCIA is laden with Argentinean folk melodies and aesthetics, and even includes a part for bass-baritone. Like PANAMBI, there are slow, gloomy sections that seem to evoke the sprawling vastness of the pampas, but there are also moments of scintillating, percussive energy suggesting the work and play of the gauchos.

Unlike many of works from Ginastera's later period, PANAMBI and ESTANCIA avoid the severe atonality and aloofness of, for example, his two PIANO CONCERTOS (also available on Naxos).

While both pieces from the present disc can certainly be classified as "modernist," they retain a welcome accessibility that won't be a turn-off to people who usually eschew such music. Any fan of early Stravinsky or Prokofiev would relish these recordings.

And what recordings they are! Both ballets are impeccably recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra under the dynamic baton of the Uruguayan conductor Gisele Ben-Dor. Additionally, the bass-baritone Luis Gaeta is perfect in his turn as the narrator/soloist in ESTANCIA. His richly authoritative "Latin" tone adds authenticity and class to an already classy disc.

Another winning point for this recording is that the complete music from both ballets is presented; these are not just excerpts. (In fact, this CD features a world-premiere recording of the complete ESTANCIA music!)

All in all, this Naxos album is easily recommended.

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