Nohema Fernández is probably the greatest living interpreter of Cuban music for the piano, a reputation gained through her astounding (and difficult to obtain) first recording, Caribbean Rhythms, on the now-defunct Protone label. Caribbean Rhythms, containing some 60 different pieces of music, was limited to the nineteenth century contradanzas of a handful of Cuban composers, most of whom are virtually unknown even to avid listeners north of the border. Serenata Cubana, one of Fernández's later efforts, is a comprehensive ...
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Nohema Fernández is probably the greatest living interpreter of Cuban music for the piano, a reputation gained through her astounding (and difficult to obtain) first recording, Caribbean Rhythms, on the now-defunct Protone label. Caribbean Rhythms, containing some 60 different pieces of music, was limited to the nineteenth century contradanzas of a handful of Cuban composers, most of whom are virtually unknown even to avid listeners north of the border. Serenata Cubana, one of Fernández's later efforts, is a comprehensive survey of Cuban piano music starting with the earliest known contradanza in 1805, and ending with the rise of Castro's communist regime in 1959. Serenata Cubana contains a wealth of little known or unknown music. Cuba is an extraordinarily musical nation, with its generally one-or-two page, two-strains-long contradanza serving as its central indigenous form. Some critics rank such pieces with low accord, often citing "lack of depth and substance" as justification. Fernández's warm and...
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