Prieto

On this CD:

1. Suite for 2 cellos Tranquillo o rubato
Composed by Samuel Zyman
Performed by Carlos Prieto

2. Suite for 2 cellos Quasi allegro
Composed by Samuel Zyman
Performed by Carlos Prieto

3. Suite for 2 cellos Danzando
Composed by Samuel Zyman
Performed by Carlos Prieto

4. Suite for 2 cellos Adagio espressivo
Composed by Samuel Zyman
Performed by Carlos Prieto

5. Suite for 2 cellos Allegro energico
Composed by Samuel Zyman
Performed by Carlos Prieto

6. Suite for 2 cellos Introduzione: largo; fuga energica
Composed by Samuel Zyman
Performed by Carlos Prieto

7. La revuelta circular, for cello & piano ("In Memeoriam Fulgencio Aquino") 1st Movement
Composed by Claudia Calderon
Performed by Carlos Prieto, Edison Quintana

8. La revuelta circular, for cello & piano ("In Memeoriam Fulgencio Aquino") 2nd Movement
Composed by Claudia Calderon
Performed by Carlos Prieto, Edison Quintana

9. Invención a la italiana, for cello & piano
Composed by Xavier Montsalvatge
Performed by Carlos Prieto, Edison Quintana

10. Espacios, for cello & piano, Op. 115
Composed by Juan Orrego-Salas
Performed by Carlos Prieto, Edison Quintana

11. Sonatita de Piel Morena, for cello & piano
Composed by Alberto Villalpando
Performed by Carlos Prieto, Edison Quintana

12. Partita piatti, for solo cello
Composed by Tomas Marco
Performed by Carlos Prieto

Tracks:

The Coolest
Sensaciones
The Stutterer
Afrotango
One Day Suite: Morning
One Day Suite: Afternoon
One Day Suite: Night
New Elephant
Renew The Elephant
Innocent Bird

Album Description

"Dafnis Prieto plays supercharged, orchestral patterns involving his entire kit, making it all cohere with strong clave rhythms. For Absolute Quintet…he has written highly disciplined arrangements to lie over fast, physical music. Hearing the musicians navigate them without missteps, and improvising fluidly over the complicated broken rhythms, is a thrill." - Ben Ratliff, NEW YORK TIMES

On Absolute Quintet, celebrated young Cuban-born, New York-domiciled drummer, band leader and composer Dafnis Prieto presents his astonishingly virtuosic crew of Latin and avant-garde sidemen in a program of 10 genre-defying Prieto originals. Reflecting a wide range of musical influences, from nineteenth-century classical Cuban music and afro-Cuban dance forms to NYC downtown electric fusion, Absolute Quintet boldly steps forward with the unique musical vision of its creator.

About the Monks
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The emergence of a major talent in the Latin jazz field

Very cool

About the Monks
Dafnis Prieto
Manufacturer: Zoho Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000787ZQ2
Release Date: 2005-02-01

Tracks:

About The Monks
Tumba Francesca
Ironico Arlequin
Danzon Santa Clara
On And On
Trio Absolute
Mechanical Movement
Interrupted Question
Conga En Ti

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Since arriving in New York from Cuba in the late 1990s, the phenomenal young drummer Dafnis Prieto has enlivened everything he has touched, ranging from the tradition-socking bands of Eddie Palmieri and Chico O'Farrill to the boldy innovative outfits of Steve Coleman and Henry Threadgill. About the Monks, the first album under his name, is a sparkling debut that is conveniently labeled Latin jazz, but never sits still long enough to fit that description. Leading a terrific band including trumpeter and Latin jazz specialist Brian Lynch, saxophonist Yosvany Terry and oncoming Venezuelan pianist Luis Perdomo (whose new debut, Focus Point, is highly recommended), Prieto stages a stylistic carnival. His compositions are sly charmers, thriving on the expected clave beats, but also march rhythms, bursts of Colemanesque bop-funk and slashing stops and starts. Here making like Elvin Jones with his intricate, powerfully self-contained orchestrations, there providing visceral punch with a timbales-like sound, Prieto simply won't permit a dull moment to intrude on the music. --Lloyd Sachs

Customer Reviews:

The emergence of a major talent in the Latin jazz field.......2005-06-12

Dafnis Prieto is no stranger to Latin Jazz. Long associated with that marvelous Canadian honorary Latinista, Jane Bunnett, and anchor to such notable outfits as The Caribbean Jazz Project, The Columna B Group, The Edward Simon Trio, The Michel Camilo Trio, and The Chucho Valdez Quartet, the hard-swinging drummer and percussionist here steps out with a smokin' first disc as leader.

What initially strikes the listener is the breadth, power, and scope of the soundscape. It helps, of course, to have a killer band to lead: the altogether fabulous Yosvany Terry (leader of the group Columna B) on soprano, alto, and tenor sax; hard bopper Bryan Lynch on trumpet and flugelhorn; Hans Glawischnig on bass; and the fast-rising Latin star Louis Perdomo on piano. But the major responsibility for the thrumming engine driving this music rests squarely on the man occupying the drums chair and leading this session.

And Dafnis Prieto has certainly learned his lessons from the masters who've employed him. Indeed, he's pretty much surpassed them on his initial release: There's, simply, such a deeply delved, hard swinging vibe on display here as to subdue all but the most hortatory of the Latin jazz masters.

Signaling the arrival of a new generation of Latin jazz masters, About the Monks will surely go down as a landmark achievement from one of the music's brightest rising stars

Very cool.......2005-06-10

Had the chance to see Dafnis Prieto perform with Michel Camilo(an excellent pianist btw) at the Blue Note in NYC, and I was blown aways by his drumming. Dafnis definitely deserves all the accolades he has been receiving. This album is worth every penny!

Rodrigo: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 7

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Austerely Moving Spanish Music--Not Your Usual Rodrigo

Rodrigo: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 7

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000BX5KK
Release Date: 2003-10-21

Tracks:

Cantan Por Belen Pastores
Duermete Nino
Aire Y Donaire
Pastorcito Santo
Coplillas De Belen
A La Chiribirivuela
La Espera
A La Clavelina
Rezare Dia Y Noche En Todos Los Instantes
Y Caminare Sobre Las Llanuras Sin Limites
Te Doy Las Gracias, O Senor
Musica Para Un Codice Salmantino
Cantico De San Francisco De Asis

Customer Reviews:

Austerely Moving Spanish Music--Not Your Usual Rodrigo.......2003-10-29

For some reason although I am attracted mightily to Spanish orchestral and piano music--I've recently written rave reviews of new recordings of Granádos piano music and of delightful Guridi vocal and orchestral music--I am not all that fond of guitars. And since Rodrigo's reputation was built solidly upon his guitar concerti (e.g. the ubiquitous 'Concierto de Aranjuez' and 'Concierto para un gentilhombre') and because I've found that music to be facile but not emotionally involving being being 'pretty,' I had not particularly investigated his music beyond those concerti. My loss, it turns out.

This is Volume 7 of Naxos's ongoing series presenting Rodrigo's complete orchestral music. It contains vocal/orchestral music on religious texts and it is striking from beginning to end.

'Retablo de Navidad' (1952) is a collection of Christmas songs set for soprano and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra. Highly varied, they are consistently engaging and show us a Rodrigo whose skills include fascinating use of varied meters, polytonality, quasi-medieval harmonies as well as Spanish-inflected French-derived impressionistic sound. Particularly moving are the solo soprano's 'La Espera,' whose text expresses hope that the Christ-Child will come, and a lullaby sung by Joseph and Mary, 'Duérmete, Niño,' to words by Rodrigo's wife, Victoria Kamhi. There is also a light-hearted a capella choral song, 'A la Chiribirivuela,' with a tongue-twisting onomatopoetic text.

'Himnos de los neófitos de Qumrán' (1965-74) is a setting of three texts from the Dead Sea scrolls, written in a style that I simply would not have expected from Rodrigo. It is polytonal, uses a tone-row, and has harmonies based consistently on minor seconds, yet it is entirely accessible, its sparse textures conveying the sincerity of these almost whispered hymns of praise for the Almighty. The three archangels--soprano soloists María Jesús Prieto, Victoria Marchante, and Ada Allende--are simply stunning in the purity of their tone and the accuracy of their tuning; the male chorus is hardly less impressive. This twenty-minute set of 'hymns' is destined, surely, to become a repertoire piece [and indeed, I've put in a call to the music director of our local professional chamber choir to put him onto this music].

'Musica para un códice salmantino' ('Music for a Salamancan Codex,' 1953), is an eleven-minute setting for bass soloist, mixed chorus and orchestra written for the septicentenary of the University of Salamanca, which was an important repository of learning during the Dark Ages and an intellectual center of the Renaissance. It is set to 'Oda a Salamanca,' by the university's former rector, the distinguished proto-existentialist philosopher/poet Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936). The text sings the praises of the city and its university ('Oh, Salamanca! Amongst your golden stones the students learnt of love, as the fields which embrace you gave forth their ripe fruits'). The music here creates a feeling of the glory of the Spanish Renaissance with modal harmonies and occasional brass fanfares.

'Cántico de San Francisco de Asis' ('Canticle of Saint Francis of Assisi,' 1982) for chorus and orchestra was written to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Francis. This 19-minute piece is one of Rodrigo's last works. Set to a poem of praise by the saint ('All-highest, omnipotent good Lord, to you be all praise, glory') translated into Spanish, it lists the things for which we should praise God--Mother Earth, Brother Fire, Sister Moon, Brother Sun, Brother Wind and, finally, Sister Death. The string-dominated orchestral music is solemn, medieval in tone with occasional brass and wind interjections and with portentous timpani toward the end. The tone is mystical, austere, ultimately jubilant. The Chorus and Orchestra of the City of Madrid under the direction of José Ramón Encinar are effective, here as in the earlier pieces.

I have to say that I was moved and delighted by this CD, partly because it came as such a suprise to me. I had no idea that Rodrigo was capable of such deeply moving music. And that's one reason I keep listening to new music, music I might not otherwise have heard--for moments like these.

Strongly recommended.

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Tracks:

Wedding March [Her Comes the Bride]
Wedding
Humoresque
Chopin's Etude Op. 10
Largo from Hel's 'Xerxes'
Salut d'Amour
Liebestraum [Lovesong No. 3]
Wedding March
Butterfly Kisses
Meditation from Thais - Ray Phillips
Liebesfreud
Melody in F
Ele
Po
Ave Maria
Bridal Chorus from Lahengrin [Here Comes the Bride]

Sinfonietta Ventus: Musica Para Divertirse

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Sinfonietta Ventus: Musica Para Divertirse

Manufacturer: Urtext Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000058TFJ
Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

Mambo Ste
Musica Para Divertirse: Elegie
Musica Para Divertirse: L'embarquement Pour Cythere
Musica Para Divertirse: (Grand Valse Democratique)
Fant Sobre Un Tema Original: Tranquillo - Allegro Molto
Octanphonie: Molto Moderato
Octanphonie: Andantino
Octanphonie: Allegro Vivo
Octeto: Coral
Octeto: Estudio
Octeto: Recitativo
Oktkt: Intro
Oktkt: Tango
Oktkt: Choro
Dixtour D'instruments A Vent Op.75: Rough
Dixtour D'instruments A Vent Op.75: Slow
Dixtour D'instruments A Vent Op.75: Violent

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Sonatas y Danzas de México

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005A8BU
Release Date: 2001-04-03

Tracks:

Tres Prlds: Sostenuto, Quasi Lento
Tres Prlds: Lento E Grave
Tres Prlds: Vivo
Son: Allegro Selvaggio
Son: Allegro (Alla Maniera D'uno Studio)
Son: Arietta - Andantino Affettuoso
Son: Allegro Burlesco
Chanson Triste
Tres Danzas Tarascas: Allegro Con Brio
Tres Danzas Tarascas: Andante
Tres Danzas Tarascas: Presto
Tres Piezas: Allegro
Tres Piezas: Lentamente
Tres Piezas: Allegro
Sonatina: Energico E Con Fant
Sonatina: Tranquilo E Molto Espressivo
Sonatina: Allegro
Cuatro Piezas: Lento
Cuatro Piezas: Con Fuoco
Cuatro Piezas: Misterioso
Cuatro Piezas: Moderato, Ritmico

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20 MEJORES DE ANTONIO PRIETO

20 Mejores
Antonio Prieto
Manufacturer: Ans Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008R8X
Release Date: 1994-08-02

Tracks:

El Reloj
Contigo En La Distancia
Tu Me Acostumbraste
A Mi Manera
Sabra Dios
La Barca
Por El Amor De Una Mujer
Se Te Olvida
Llegaste Y La Tristeza Se Marcho
Sabor A Mi
La Puerta
En Nosotros
Huija
El Maestro De Violin
Chuquicamata
Te Vas Con Las Llaves
Gracias A Dios
Mi Arbol Y Yo
No Vuelvas Por Favor Amada Mia
Tu, Mi Delirio

Customer Reviews:

20 MEJORES DE ANTONIO PRIETO.......2000-04-19

Most if not all of the recordings on this great CD by the great Antonio Prieto, were originally released in vinyl during the mid and late 70's by the chilean "Parnaso" label, when the great chilean "bolerista" singer Antonio Prieto made a most welcome comeback after 11 years of absence from the world of recorded latin music. Luckily, "Ans Records", Inc. re-issued these chilean sessions in CD format. All time classics like "El Reloj","Sabra Dios", "La Barca",

Album Description

INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS! Mexican cellist Carlos Prieto has given the first performances of Shostakovich's first cello concerto in cities of both Mexico and Spain. Several living composers have written works specifically for him, and on this CD he provides the world premiere recordings of two of them.