Alberto Williams: Piano Music, Vol. 2

Alberto Williams (1862-1952) was one of the outstanding personalities of Argentina, not only due to his production as a composer, but also as an orchestra conductor, pianist, pedagogue and organizer of events.
In Argentina he studied Music with Pedro Beck and Clementino del Ponte. In 1883 he went to France with th support of the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires, and was admitted at the National Conservatory of Paris, where he continued his studies with Émile Durand, Benjamin Goddard, George Mathias, Charles Bériot and César Franck, with whom he took a closer contact through private tuition in 1889.
Even though Alberto Williams divided his activity as a composer into three consecutive stylistic stages, while analyzing his vast repertoire we can find several forma of expression in simultaneous or alternated ways: typical Romantic pieces constructed under a universalist language; works which are clearly based on Argentine nationalism; juxtaposed harmonies used intuitively already in the decade of the 1880's.

Contents:
- Mazurkas No. 1, Op. 3; No. 2, Op. 20; No. 3, Op. 28
- Aires de Vals (Waltz Air) No. 2, Op. 16; No. 13, Op. 109; No. 25, Op. 127
- Piezas Poéticas (Poetic Pieces), Op. 17
- Poema de las Campanas (Poem of the Bells), Op. 60
- Poema de la Quebrada (Poem of the Ravine), Op. 79
- Poema del Valle (Poem of the Valley), Op. 80