Week 3: Rhythm Everywhere! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the third week of the "Music from Latin America" challenge!
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Do you struggle with complicated rhythms?
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Today I am posting my recording of Carlevaro's, Preludio Americano 1, Evocación. The suite of five preludes were dedicated to Andres Segovia and published in 1970s. This first prelude is very representative of Carlevaro's tonal language which he greatly expands upon in his sonata, Cronomias. The photo that used for the background is Maestro Carlevaro in his home studio in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Dale Needles Well played Dale.
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Dale Needles You keep giving us all these masterful performances so quickly, Dale! Very impressive. And what an incredible piece of music this is.
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Eric Phillips Thanks. I wish I could say these were all new pieces that I have worked up but it has been a combination of a few brand new works, some old friends that I got out of the closet and dusted off and works that i have been working on. Most of all, it has been great fun to compile a representative sample of Carlevaro's pieces, not unlike what you are doing with Barrios, which I am really appreciating.
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Dale Needles again another jewel, thank you for sharing
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Wai Thanks. As far as interpreting modern music, the key for me (no pun intended) is training the ear to the tonal language of the composer and then digging into the score and breaking it down into phrases. My suggestion would be to continue on with more of the Brouwer Estudios that you played so well early in the challenge and then maybe try some of Carlevaro's Microestudios.
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Dale Needles great piece. And very well played, Dale! Looking forward to more of this. This set of Preludes is really great music. You make this one sound so clear and rhythmic. Nice colors, too! Chapeau!
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Dale Needles Bravo! Evocación is a great piece, and you play with accuracy! My favorite Preludio is Scherzino, maybe you or Blaise Laflamme can gift me with a recording...
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Moyses Lopes This is indeed a great one, I particularly like the B section of Scherzino, there's a lot of great stuff among all of them.
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Dale Needles That was great, Dale. I like this very much. It is very different than the other works I know of Carlevaro (not many).
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Moyses Lopes Thanks. The Preludios Americanos are amazing and I love all five. Unfortunately, I did not dust off Scherzino for this challenge but is on my list to work on in the future. In any case, I just posted Campo.
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Jack Stewart Thanks. Since you like this style of Carlevaro, you should check out Cronomias by Carlevaro. It is Carlevaro at his most modern. There is great YouTube post of Eduardo Fernandez, a student of Carlevaro's, performing it live.
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Barrios - País de Abanico
I seem to be binging on Barrios. I guess I've been bitten by the Barrios bug! (I hope you're not allergic to
s.) Again, this is a piece I had never heard before a couple days ago, which surprises me since it is so beautiful. Here, I am only playing the A section (measures 1-32). Naturally, the remaining sections are much more difficult. I feel like this one is a bit beyond me technically, but I'll give it a go.
I guess the title means "Country of the Fan" and Augustine Wiedemann's YT video of it indicates that it is dedicated to Japan. If anyone knows anything more about this piece, please let me know.
I have also attached a public domain score if you are interested. There are several great performances of it on YT, but I really love Berta Rojas' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rO3LdE20Ic).
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Eric Phillips It sounds a little bit like Saudade...so sad and romantic, thats awsome. Thank you for the score
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Eric Phillips this Barriosbug is a desease that is welcome!!!
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz Thank you, Stefanie!
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Eric Phillips nice! I’m not allergic ( guess the bug didn’t bite me so far). This is a charming piece. Good start.
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Eric Phillips I guess the bug's name was Bugrrios.
You played it perfectly, it sounded so great!
The name of this piece is really interesting, I found that the Japanese version would translate it into "扇の国" (literally A Country of Fan) with a subtitle of "日本へのノスタルジア" which means "Nostalgia for Japan", but I think it's more like "Longing for (visiting) Japan" because it seems that he had never been to Japan when he composed this piece of music. (sorry, my English is not good enough for translation) -
Wai Your English is spectacular! Thank you for sharing your information and thoughts. The music doesn't sound particularly Japanese to me, but maybe that's what he was trying to do?.
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Eric Phillips You're a Barrios specialist! Bravo!
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Moyses Lopes As long as it's only his slower pieces, I'll accept that title.
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I am preparing a second take of Sojo’s Cantico together with Galeron, the last of his ‘five pieces from Venezuela’. But today I share the first rough take of another piece, the Preludio Criollo by Rodrigo Riera:
I played it a very long time ago, and I remember now why I thought it was so hard. If you are looking for a barre piece with lots of awkward shifts and stretches: try this one. But, I think it fits this week’s motto, with its 6/8 vs 3/4 rhythm
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- joosje Very nice and a wonderful arpeggio piece. I am very happy for you to introduce into the challenge the works of Sojo and Riera. They are excellent composers and not very well known outside of Venezuela. As you know Riera studied under Raul Borges, the same teacher that Aliro Diaz and Antonio Lauro studied with. Do you play any of Raul Borges' pieces? I have a couple of nice ones, if you do not have any. Just reach out to me via [email protected]
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joosje You captured the mood of this piece very well, I really like the drive and energy in the music.
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joosje I never heard that, its beautiful! thank you!
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joosje You got the duende, Joosje! Brava!
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