Pola Baytelman brilliantly interprets the works of Chilean and Cuban composers, such as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alfonso Letelier Llona, Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Ileana Perez Velázquez, Alfonso Leng, and Alberto Ginastera.
“An attractive feature of Baytelman’s program is that it rejects the boxes of nationalism, popular crossover, and avant-garde, or perhaps that it brings out this blurring of boundaries in the repertories she examines themselves. …
An excellent piece of performance investigation from an artist clearly immersed in the traditions on which she draws, and this is strongly recommended for those interested in Latin American concert music.”
—James Manheim, AllMusic Review
with: Pola Baytelman (piano); Pedro Prado (poetry); Michele Jerison (poetry translation); Andy Ryder (ass’t engineer); Paul Cox (editing); Adam Abeshouse (engineer, mastering, producer)
- Released: 12 May 2009
- Catalogue No: TROY 1116
- Label: Albany
- Length: 62 minutes
| Villa-Lobos: Ciclo brasileiro (4), suite for piano, A. 374 | ||
| 1) | Impressões seresteiras | 6:53 |
| 2) | Dança do índio branco | 4:18 |
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| Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, for piano, A. 264 | ||
| 3) | Prelúdio | 6:17 |
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| Letelier: pieces (4), Op. 33 | ||
| 4) | No. 1: Allegro moderato | 2:34 |
| 5) | No. 2: Moderato | 2:00 |
| 6) | No. 3: Interludio – Adagio molto. Con gran libertad | 2:17 |
| 7) | No. 4: Muy rítmico | 1:44 |
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| Allende: Tonadas (12) in the Chilean Popular Syle, for piano | ||
| 8) | No. 5 in A: Allegretto – poco meno – come prima | 2:03 |
| 9) | No. 6 in D: Lento – Vivo | 1:48 |
| 10) | No. 7 in G: Lento – Vivo | 2:12 |
| 11) | No. 8 in C: Lento – Vivo | 2:55 |
| 12) | No. 9 in F: Lento – Vivo | 2:03 |
| 13) | No. 3 in B: Lento – Vivo | 3:20 |
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| 14) | Velázquez: Encantamiento, for piano | 6:35 |
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| Leng: Doloras, Poems for piano | ||
| 15) | No. 1: Quasi allegretto | 1:35 |
| 16) | No. 2: Andante | 2:52 |
| 17) | No. 3: Larghetto | 2:19 |
| 18) | No. 4: Andante | 1:18 |
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| Ginastera: Creole Dance Suite, for piano, Op. 15 | ||
| 19) | 1. Adagietto pianissimo | 1:25 |
| 20) | 2. Allegro rustico | 0:34 |
| 21) | 3. Allegretto cantabile | 1:33 |
| 22) | 4. Calmo e poetico | 1:28 |
| 23) | 5. Scherzando | 2:22 |