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Cláudio Santoro - Complete piano sonatas

Alessandro Santoro
Discos: Clásica

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Sello Naxos
Estilo Clásica
Año de Edición Original 2024
Instrumental

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Alessandro Santoro (piano solo)

"Written over a 46-year period, Claudio Santoro’s six piano sonatas document the evolution of his creative and formal skills – together they present a survey of the composer’s entire aesthetic development. Always radiating a forceful inner power and with expressive lyricism at their heart, the early sonatas explore twelve-note technique as a unifying element, transitioning to a distinctive Brazilian nationalist character by the Third and Fourth sonatas. The Fifth Sonata, from the end of Santoro’s life, is a synthesis of the various idioms he had used over the decades. This is the first complete recording of Santoro’s piano sonatas, performed by the composer’s son, Alessandro Santoro.

Claudio Santoro began his musical training in his native city of Manaus. An extremely talented violinist, he received a local government scholarship to continue his studies in Rio de Janeiro, and his earliest works date from this period. His First Symphony, written in 1940 when he was just 21 and had not yet begun to study composition in any formal way, impressed the German musician and teacher Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, leader of the ‘Música Viva’ movement, made up of young composers seeking out new directions in which to take Brazilian music, in line with the European avant-garde of the time.
In the late 1940s, however, Santoro’s music took a radical turn, as a result of his political-ideological convictions and his role as the Brazilian delegate to the 1948 Prague Congress of Progressive Composers, whose final manifesto urged composers to avoid excessive subjectivity and look to their national folk traditions for inspiration. The works Santoro wrote during the 1950s were influenced by his search for a more direct and immediately communicative idiom, an effect he achieved by using nationalist elements.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Alessandro Santoro undertook a Master’s degree in piano at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and completed his Master’s degree in harpsichord at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, where he later joined the faculty.
He has performed across Europe as a member of ensembles La Petite Bande and Orchestra of the 18th Century, and was founder of Den Haag Baroque Orchestra.
His discography comprises 22 albums, with his release of works by Leclair, alongside Luís Otávio Santos and Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, receiving a Diapason d’Or. As a pianist, he has extensively recorded the works of his father Claudio Santoro, including the complete works for violin and piano with violinist Emmanuele Baldini, Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Samara State Philharmonic Orchestra, and an album of unpublished works with bassoonist Fábio Cury.
Since 1989 he has been editing and publishing his father’s oeuvre, as well as administering his virtual archives. Alessandro Santoro is currently a professor of harpsichord and basso continuo at the Escola de Música do Estado de São Paulo (EMESP)."

Temas

CD 1
01
Sonata 1942 - I. Lento
Cláudio Santoro
02:28
02
Sonata 1942 - II. Alegre brincando e gracioso
Cláudio Santoro
03:04
03
Sonata 1942 - III. Muito lento
Cláudio Santoro
02:52
04
Piano sonata nº 1 - I. Lento
Cláudio Santoro
02:24
05
Piano sonata nº 1 - II. Allegretto
Cláudio Santoro
02:35
06
Piano sonata nº 1 - III. Andante-Allegro
Cláudio Santoro
03:31
07
Piano sonata nº 2 - I. Allegro
Cláudio Santoro
03:56
08
Piano sonata nº 2 - II. Lento (Expressivo)
Cláudio Santoro
02:59
09
Piano sonata nº 2 - III. Allegro vivo
Cláudio Santoro
03:23
10
Piano sonata nº 3 - I. Allegro energico
Cláudio Santoro
05:57
11
Piano sonata nº 3 - II. Adagio (Expressivo)
Cláudio Santoro
04:17
12
Piano sonata nº 3 - III. Moderato (Ostinato)
Cláudio Santoro
04:26
13
Piano sonata nº 4 "Fantasia" - I. Allegro deciso
Cláudio Santoro
07:11
14
Piano sonata nº 4 "Fantasia" - II. Andante
Cláudio Santoro
03:28
15
Piano sonata nº 4 "Fantasia" - III. Allegro molto
Cláudio Santoro
04:29
16
Piano sonata nº 5 - I. Adagio-Allegro vivo
Cláudio Santoro
04:36
17
Piano sonata nº 5 - II. Andante
Cláudio Santoro
02:15
18
Piano sonata nº 5 - III. Livre angustiado
Cláudio Santoro
03:44