José Serebrier is well known as a conductor, a role in which his activities have hardly slowed even in his ninth decade. He is also a composer, and even though he is much less familiar in this role, his initial fame was in this realm; Leopold Stokowski programmed his Symphony No. 1, and the 1957 Piano Sonata played here by Nadia Shpachenko was premiered by no less than Rudolf Serkin. The works on the album stretch from that year all the way up to 2018 for the titular Last Tango Before Sunrise, but there is general stylistic ...
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José Serebrier is well known as a conductor, a role in which his activities have hardly slowed even in his ninth decade. He is also a composer, and even though he is much less familiar in this role, his initial fame was in this realm; Leopold Stokowski programmed his Symphony No. 1, and the 1957 Piano Sonata played here by Nadia Shpachenko was premiered by no less than Rudolf Serkin. The works on the album stretch from that year all the way up to 2018 for the titular Last Tango Before Sunrise, but there is general stylistic consistency among them, although the sense of tonality varies. All are infused with Latin American rhythms, either the tango, as characteristic of Serebrier's native Uruguay as it is of Argentina, or from Afro-Brazilian lands, as in the Symphony for Percussion or the hyperkinetic Candombe. What makes his rhythmic treatments especially appealing is that the rhythmic influences may be direct, or more subtle, or sometimes both in the same composition. Four of the pieces here are world...
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