Carlos Guastavino

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Carlos Guastavino, born in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, was one of the foremost Argentine composers of the 20th century. His production amouts to over 200 works, most of them songs for piano and voice. An accomplished pianist with an intense gift for melody, Guastavino wrote very effectively for his instrument. His style is quite conservative, always tonal and lusciously romantic. His compositions are clearly influenced by Argentine folk music. His reputation is based, virtually entirely, on his songs, which are qickly becoming part of the standard vocal repertoire. Guastavino's musical style, firmly rooted in the late nineteenth-century Romantic Nationalist tradition, marks a stark contrast with the works of his contemporaries, such as Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983). Guastavino's stylistic isolation from the modernist and avant-garde movements going on around him, and the self-consciously nationalist content of his songs made him a model for Argentine popular and folk musicians of the '60's. Guastavino studied music in Santa Fe with Esperanza Lothringer and Dominga Iaffei, and in Buenos Aires with Athos Palma. A talented pianist, he performed his piano works in London in 1947, 1948, and 1949, invited by the BBC, and as a recipient of a scholarship from the British Council. During these years, the BBC Symphony Orchestra premiered the orchestral version of his “Tres Romances Argentinos”, under the baton of Walter Goehs. Later, in 1956, Guastavino toured the USSR and China, p

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albums

Carlos Guastavino: Melodias Argentinas

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Live from the Lugano Festival 2005

GUASTAVINO: Piano Music

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Terres Argentines

Guastavino: The Complete Piano Music

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Piano Focus

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Guastavino & Rachmaninoff

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Flores Argentinas: Canciones De Carlos Guastavino

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Guastavino: Bailecito

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Carlos Guastavino: La Siesta: III. Sparrows (Gorriones)

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Nostalgias Argentinas

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Guastavino: Song Cycles

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