Donostia / Maso: Piano Music
Donostia / Maso: Piano Music
Format: CD
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Artist: Donostia / Maso
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313222827
Genre: Classical
Padre Donostia's greatest achievement was to bring prestige to traditional Basque music. He succeeded in finding and conveying it's deeper significance, faithfully and elegantly, as well as in achieving the perfect balance between the assimilation of tradition and the huge influence of his impressionist contemporaries, Ravel and Debussy. At the core of his piano repertoire are the four books of Preludes (1912-16), to which must also be added the Menuet basque (Basque minuet), Andante para una sonata vasca (Andante for a Basque sonata), Herrimina (Nostalgia), Homenaje a J.C. de Arriaga (Tribute to Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga), Prière plaintive à Notre-Dame de Socorri (Heartfelt Prayer to Our Lady of Socorri), and two original pieces for guitar, Tiento y canción (Tiento and Song) and Vora'l Ter (On the Banks of the Ter). Common to the four books of Preludes is a concern for the strict reproduction of the traditional melodies, which are always allowed to shine through. Padre Donostia's expressive writing rises up above the melody, it's express intention being to describe the text, harmonic backgrounds representing landscapes, rhythmic patterns, impressionistic recitatives, distant music from religious processions and festivities, children's games, and so on, all of which are marked by their simplicity and nostalgic lyricism. Although the works were written within a short time of one another, the later pieces show that Padre Donostia's musical and harmonic idiom was beginning to move away from it's classical roots to become more impressionistic in nature.
Tracks:
1.1 Bat-Batian (Improvisation)
1.2 Izketan (Dialogue)
1.3 Oyanian (In the Wood)
1.4 Eresia (Sad Song)
1.5 Aur-Dantza (Children's Dance)
1.6 Oã±Azez (Grief)
1.7 Aitonaren Ele-Zaarrak (Grandfather's Tale)
1.8 Artzai Gaztearen Oiuak (Shepherd-Boys' Song)
1.9 Seask Aldean Eresiz (Lullaby)
1.10 Bordako Atalarrian (At the Farmhouse Door)
1.11 Mutillen Karrika-Eresiak (Young Men's Serenade)
1.12 Ilargitan, Emazte-Gayanerontz (Singing in the Moonlight)
1.13 Urruti-Jaya (Distant Procession)
1.14 Irulea (The Spinner Woman)
1.15 Malkoa (Tears)
1.16 Eztei-Taldea (Wedding Procession)
1.17 Errotazuriko Urretxindorra (The Nightingale of Errotazuri)
1.18 Zubero-Errialde (Landscape of la Soule)
1.19 Sagar-Dantza (Dance of the Apples)
1.20 Esku-Dantza (Dance of the Hands)
1.21 Zozo-Dantza (Dance of the Blackbird)
