Clelia Iruzun, Fábio Zanon & Marcelo Barboza - Treasures from the New World, Vol. 3 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

SOMM RECORDINGS announces the eagerly anticipated Volume 3 of Treasures from the New World throwing revealing new light on music from the Americas. Pianist Clélia Iruzun returns, accompanied by feted guitarist and Royal Academy of Music Professor Fabio Zanon (who provides informative booklet notes) and celebrated flautist Marcelo Barboza, both making their label debuts.

Works by six Brazilian composers for permutations of guitar, flute and piano are featured, three of which – by Marlos Nobre, Ronaldo Miranda and João Luiz – are First Recordings. Also included is American composer Jennifer Higdon, whose questing flute and piano duet, Legacy, is a rhetorical meditation on suffering and loss.

Composed for Iruzun in 2011, Nobre’s Desafio No.37 pits guitar and piano against each other echoing Brazil’s jousting troubadour tradition; Miranda’s single-movement Alumbramentos for flute and piano fuses the traditional and the new; Luiz’s Três na Pipa an animated depiction of three duelling kites; Paulo Porto Alegre’s Choro Suite for guitar and flute blending dance forms with improvisatory-like brilliance.

Radamés Gnattali’s Sonatina No.2 is a charming guitar and piano dialogue, Roberto Sierra’s Crónicas del Descubrimiento (Chronicles of Discovery) a major addition to the flute and guitar repertoire.

Volume 1 of Treasures from the New World (SOMMCD 0609), saw International Piano praise Iruzun as “a sterling advocate with impeccable phrasing, tone and timing”, Fanfare hailing it “a first-class release”. BBC Music Magazine lauded Volume 2 (SOMMCD 0632) “a delightful programme… every bit as vibrant as the previous volume”.

Clélia Iruzun’s SOMM recordings include two volumes of music by Federico Mompou (SOMMCD 0121, 0155). Her recording of Piano Concertos by Albeniz & Mignone (SOMMCD 265) was nominated for an International Classical Music Award in 2019. International Piano said: “Clélia comes into her vivid own, playing with a superb mastery and empathy; it is difficult to imagine… greater skill and affection”.

Tracklist:
01. Sonatina No. 2: I. Allegro moderato
02. Sonatina No. 2: II. Longing
03. Sonatina No. 2: III. Rhythmic
04. 3 Chronicles of Discovery: First Chronicle: I. Leyenda Taína
05. 3 Chronicles of Discovery: First Chronicle: II. Dance
06. 3 Chronicles of Discovery: Second Chronicle: I. Night
07. 3 Chronicles of Discovery: Second Chronicle: II. In Search of Gold
08. 3 Chronicles of Discovery: Third Chronicle: I. Song
09. 3 Chronicles of Discovery: Third Chronicle: II. Battle
10. Legacy
11. Challenge No. 37
12. Choro Suite: I. Introduction
13. Choro Suite: II. Xaxado-Choro (Brazilian Folkdance)
14. Choro Suite: III. Waltz
15. Choro Suite: IV. Toccata
16. Enchantments
17. Three Flying a Kite


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