Gustavo Leone: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
Beatriz Elena Martinez (soprano) & Marta Liliana Bonilla (harp)
Cuarteto Q-Arte
It’s not an easy listen, and nor is it intended to be. It’s rich in melancholy, pathos and intensity. Leone’s is a versatile voice in the contemporary firmament and he has been excellently served...
Gustavo Leone: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
Beatriz Elena Martinez (soprano) & Marta Liliana Bonilla (harp)
Cuarteto Q-Arte
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It’s not an easy listen, and nor is it intended to be. It’s rich in melancholy, pathos and intensity. Leone’s is a versatile voice in the contemporary firmament and he has been excellently served...
About
Gustavo Leone was born in Buenos Aires in 1956 and is now a professor of music at Loyola University in Chicago. His music combines a strong sense of atmosphere with a feeling for drama. Its basic lyricism is coloured with echoes of folk-music and the Baroque and animated by outbreaks of dancing energy. This is the second CD from Toccata Classics to feature the playing of the Cuarteto Q-Arte from Bogotá: they perform the String Quartet by Luis Carlos Figueroa on TOCC0165.
Contents and tracklist
- Cuarteto Q-Arte
- Recorded: 27–28 July / 13–14 September 2011
- Recording Venue: Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia
- Cuarteto Q-Arte
- Recorded: 27–28 July / 13–14 September 2011
- Recording Venue: 27–28 July / 13–14 September 2011
- Cuarteto Q-Arte
- Recorded: 27–28 July / 13–14 September 201
- Recording Venue: Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia
- Marta Liliana Bonilla (harp)
- Cuarteto Q-Arte
- Recorded: 11 December 2012
- Recording Venue: Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia
Awards and reviews
30th January 2014
It’s not an easy listen, and nor is it intended to be. It’s rich in melancholy, pathos and intensity. Leone’s is a versatile voice in the contemporary firmament and he has been excellently served by the Q-Arte String Quartet, harpist Marta Liliana Bonilla, and Martinez.
