Later still, a pair of milonga suites describe a peaceful return to the composer’s heritage. Milonga para Ling (1999) is brief but saturated with melancholy, while to the Milonga Oriental (1994) belongs one of the composer’s happiest melodic inspirations. His music caught the ear of Heitor Villa-Lobos, another South American innovator, and it embraces the widest stylistic range captured by Poli Cappelli on this album, from the delicate watercolours of the Preludios Americanos (1969-74) to the vivid brushstrokes and abstract form of Cronomias (1972).Ĭarlevaro’s later music returned often to the milonga, a tango-related dance popularised in the classical sphere by Astor Piazzolla. However, he broke away from his master’s teachings in order to make his own experiments in both guitar manufacture and composition. Like Tansman, Carlevaro studied with Andres Segovia, the father of the modern guitar, during the 1930s. The first was of guitar music by another relatively forgotten figure, Alexander Tansman (BC95221), and it was enthusiastically reviewed by Classical Guitar magazine: ‘Highly recommended!’ This new 2CD set presents an absorbing portrait of Abel Carlevaro (1916-2001) through his music as performed by Cristiano Poli Cappelli, an Italian guitarist making his second album for Brilliant Classics. A Uruguayan pupil of Segovia: a man dedicated to the guitar, as a performer, teacher and even maker a composer who wove together strands of melody and modernism.
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