Mario Lavista: Complete String Quartets: First Recordings

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The performances are exemplary, a tribute to the Cuarteto Latinamericano's fine musicianship and willingness to explore very different terrain to that for which they are best known on disc, the... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2011 More…

Release Date: 13th Jun 2011
Catalogue No: TOCC0106
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 72 minutes

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Lavista: String Quartet No. 2 'Reflejos de la noche'

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Lavista: String Quartet No. 3 'Música para mi vecino'

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I. Largamente, flessibile

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II. Presto

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III. Molto allegro

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IV. Allegro leggiero

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V. Molto lento, flessibile

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Lavista: String Quartet No. 4 'Sinfonías'

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Lavista: String Quartet No. 5 'Siete invenciones'

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I. Presto

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II. Moderato

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III. Andnte con moto

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IV. Andante tranquillo

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V. Presto

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VI. Lento flessibile

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VII. Molto allegro con brio

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Lavista: String Quartet No. 1 'Diacronía'

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Lavista: String Quartet No. 6 'Suite en cinco partes'

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I. Danza

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II. Motete

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III. Canon

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IV. Coral

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V. Estudio

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The first-ever complete string quartet series of Mexico’s leading contemporary composer Mario Lavista (b. 1943) Professor at the Conservatorio Nacional since 1970 and a a member of the prestigious Colegio Nacional, he has been the recipient of multiple international awards and honours and is also Chief Editor of one of the most important music journals in Latin America, Pauta, which he founded in 1982.

He was a student of Carlo Chávez at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in the 1960s before continuing his studies in Paris in extended and electronic techniques.

On his return to Mexico in 1970 he founded Quanta, a collective improvisation group, going on to work in electronic music in Japan and later in collaboration with other prominent musicans and artists, including the visual artist Arnaldo Coen.

Influences on his music range from these interests in indeterminate aspects and extended techniques to mediaeval and Renaissance music, spirituality and religious genres, and a continuous passion for poetry.

These six string quartets share a powerful sense of atmosphere and colour, and continue the important Mexican contribution to the genre begun by Chávez and Revueltas. The relationship between Lavista and El Cuarteto Latinoamericano, recorded here, is particularly close and one of the most fruitful artistic collaborations in the history of the string quartet in Mexico. They are close friends, and Lavista has written every one of his quartets for the group since they formed in 1982.

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December 2011

The performances are exemplary, a tribute to the Cuarteto Latinamericano's fine musicianship and willingness to explore very different terrain to that for which they are best known on disc, the 17 quartets by Villa-Lobos. Lavista's series may not be the greatest quartet cycle of the 20th century but it is an intriguing and thought-provoking one, and is given here in excellent performances, superbly transferred.

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