Leo BROUWER: Bandurria and Guitar Music

Leo BROUWER

Bandurria and Guitar Music

Bandurria: Pedro Chamororo

Guitar: Pedro Mateo

A native of Cuba, Leo Brouwer is universally acknowledged as one of the most challenging and innovative of contemporary composers. This programme brings the guitar into consort with the bandurria, a small lute dating from the 16th century and perennially popular in South America, the combination perfect for expressing the rustic rhythms of Cuban folk style in Música Incidental Campesina. This recording covers a kaleidoscopic range of techniques and emotions, from political martyrdom in Chile to the immense vistas of Brazil. The Sonata para Bandurria was composed for one of the virtuoso performers on this recording, Pedro Chamorro.

Musica Incidental Campesina

I. Preludio

II. Interludio

III. Danza

IV. Final

Variaciones sobre un tema de Victor Jara

I. Introduccion

II. Variations 1 - 4

III. Variations 5 - 7

IV. Finale

Bandurria Sonata

I. El ritmo de las luces y las sombras

II. Nocturnal

III. Introduccion y Toccata

Sonata del Caminante

I. Vision de la Amazonia

II. El Gran Sertao

III. Danza Festiva

IV. Toccata Nordestina

Micropiezas

I. Tranquillo

II. Allegro vivace

III. Vivacissimo muy ritmico

IV. —

V. Andante tranquillo