Leguizamón: El Cuchi Bien Temperado

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Márquez is always a thoughtful, imaginative player, as supple as he is subtle, across a wide range of genres and periods from Renaissance to contemporary. Here, however, he is on home turf, and... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 More…

Release Date: 16th Feb 2015
Catalogue No: 4810972
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 66 minutes

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Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Coplas des Tata Dios

Work length5:14

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Zamba del carnaval

Work length4:21

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: La cantora de Yala

Work length4:24

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Chacarera del expediente

Work length2:46

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Chaya de la albahaca

Work length3:26

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Zamba de Lozano

Work length4:47

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: El silbador

Work length3:59

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: De sólo estar

Work length2:17

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Chacarera del holgado

Work length2:33

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Carnavalito del Duende

Work length4:28

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Zamba para la Viuda

Work length4:29

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Zamba soltera

Work length4:06

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Corazonando

Work length2:29

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Zamba del pañuelo

Work length4:34

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Chilena del solterón

Work length2:47

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Maturana

Work length4:24

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón: Canción del que no hace nada

Work length5:44

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Recorded: 2012-05-25
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

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Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamón (1917-2000) was a unique figure in the musical culture of Argentina - a poet, composer, pianist and guitarist, a popular artist and a highly sophisticated musician. Here Pablo Márquez pays homage with an album of Leguizamón’s pieces arranged for solo guitar. Leguizamón was born in Salta, a city in the foothills of the Andes and a seedbed for outstanding popular musicians. Though born in St Pedro de Jujuy (in 1967), Pablo Márquez was raised in Salta and, aged 13, first encountered Leguizamón there in his capacity as a history teacher: Cuchi was also a lawyer and teacher in addition to being one of Argentina’s greatest musicians.

As a composer, Leguizamón was an exceptional melodist and an adventurous traditionalist. The majority of his work consists of zambas, which Márquez considers Salta’s quintessential musical form. Leguizamón brought a sense of harmonic freedom to these dance pieces, incorporating his melodic and harmonic ideas in Argentine traditional music, “without ever losing its essence or strong sense of rootedness”. A builder of bridges between art music and oral traditions, he was inspired by classical music, especially Beethoven and 20th century composers including Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky and Schoenberg.

The title of Márquez’s album makes reference to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and the guitarist here similarly arranges Cuchi’s music for all 24 major and minor keys. Márquez says: “To provide a wealth of colours I set myself the challenge of never repeating any key... It was my way of enriching folk practice, and also a reflection of my classical training in this encounter with traditional music.”

This is the second ECM album for the Swiss-based Pablo Márquez following his disc of music by Luys de Narvaez, ‘Musica del Delphin’ (4765878), released in 2007, but further recordings are in preparation.

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May 2015

Márquez is always a thoughtful, imaginative player, as supple as he is subtle, across a wide range of genres and periods from Renaissance to contemporary. Here, however, he is on home turf, and there's a natural fluency to playing which seems somehow warmer, freer and more instinctive than on those previous recordings I've had the pleasure of hearing.

Leguizamón: El Cuchi Bien Temperado

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