Guinjoan: Character Piano Works, Vol. 3

Joan Guinjoan, whose work is one of the most solid of the last century half and who is already considered as a classic at the beginning of our century. Guinjoan: Character Piano Works, Vol. 3 let us draw a silhouette of a musician who is far away from manifestos and normative aesthetic, in love with the creative audacities that pushed him to permanent research. The fruit of all this is the systematic exploration of piano expressive possibilities, enriched by an endless imagination which find stimuli in a myriad of sources and traditions. Pianist Alfonso Calderón de Castro knows how to extract the richness and diversity of colors of Guinjoan’s writing, armed with a great sonorous versatility in colors and dynamics. An anthological pianist fed by specific aspects such as agility or flexible phrasing to Guinjoan’s piano works. Listening to this selection, a robust, constructive vigor reminds us classicism. But in these works the classical balance is nourished by the vitality of the previous imbalance, and crystallizes in an expressionist impressionism that never leaves the vital aesthetic emotion.

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Alfonso Calderón de Castro, Piano