CARLOS CHÁVEZ (1899-1978): Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 4 - String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Sonatinas for Piano, for Violin and Piano & for Cello and Piano, Sextet for Piano and Strings, 3 Pieces for Guitar, 3 Spirals for Violin and Piano, Fuga H-A-G-C for String Trio and Double Bass, Variations for Violin with Piano, Feuille d'Album for Guitar, Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp.

Catalogue Number: 05I071

Label: Cambria

Reference: CD 8853A/B

Format: CD

Price: $33.98

Description: The quartets, offered here last August on Urtext, are better known than the succinct instrumental sonatinas - Chávez' somewhat acerbic, neoclassical contributions to the Copland-Sessions Concerts of the 1920s. Meticulously crafted masterpieces of expressive concision, they clearly demonstrate Chávez' growth as an individual composer while remaining true to his remarkably consistent compositional and nationalistic æsthetic, already very apparent in the remarkable early Sextet, written when the composer was only 19, French-influenced yet already demonstrably breathing the air, if not of another planet, certainly of a New World. The guitar is so quintessentially a part of Spanish and Latin music that inevitably it brings out the Mexican nationalist in Chávez in full force in the masterly and wholly idiomatic Three Pieces. Even the much later, brief Feuille sounds like a distillation of the composer's idiom as expressed through his national instrument. The violin Variations are complex and sophisticated, demonstrating clearly that Chávez was a world-class cosmopolitan figure whose gifts transcended national boundaries. The coda to the disc is his delightful trio transcription of two works each by Debussy and Falla, an exquisite divertissement. 2 CDs. Southwest Chamber Music.

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