The Well-Tempered Viola - Sounds from Middle and South America
Rafael Díaz - Enojado Allá Arriba, for amplified viola
(English Title: “
Will There be Someone Whose Hands Can Sustain This Falling?”)
Georgina Isabel Rossi viola
Modesta Bor - Sonata for viola and piano
Beatriz Lockhart - Capricho Montevideano for viola and piano
Orquídea Guandique-Araniva viola,
Fernando Zuñiga-Chanto piano
Juan Esteban Cuacci - Cromado
Cromado 1
Loquedia 1
Cromado 13
Sheska
Cromado 7
Gato Sueco
Silvina Alvarez viola,
Juan Esteban Cuacci piano
Programme Notes:
Rafael Díaz (composition faculty, Universidad de Chile), is an ethnomusicologist whose compositions live and breathe the language and song of Andean indigenous culture. His writing is a rare exhibit of a sincere and familiar pining for communication. The piece "Enojado Allá Arriba" makes use of amplification and noticeable reverb to generate the effect of a lone voice calling out from a mountain-top. The poetic tunes are idiosyncratically expressed through the teeth of tremolando or bird-like continuous trilling.
Modesta Bor was a Venezuelan composer and studied composition in Caracas with Vicente Emilio Sojo, graduating in 1959, and later, studied with Khachaturian at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (1960-62).
The Sonata for viola and piano was composed in 1960 according with her first compositional period, embedded with the nationalistic movement of her time.
Beatriz Lockhart is and Uruguayan composer. She studied in Uruguay with Carlos Estrada and Héctor Tosar. From 1969 to 1970 she attended the Di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires to study composition and electronic music with Ginastera, Gandini and Kroepfl. During that period, she wrote orchestral, chamber and piano works, and electronic music.
