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Serenata Latina

Rolando Villazón (tenor), Xavier de Maistre (harp)

Serenata Latina
I find the tenor most compelling when he’s at his most gentle and emotionally direct…Villazón is in good voice throughout most of the programme, although I notice a certain hollowness in his...

Gramophone Magazine, November 2020

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Serenata Latina

Rolando Villazón (tenor), Xavier de Maistre (harp)

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I find the tenor most compelling when he’s at his most gentle and emotionally direct…Villazón is in good voice throughout most of the programme, although I notice a certain hollowness in his...

Gramophone Magazine, November 2020

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An Album with new, intimate arrangements for voice and harp of Latin American Songs.

Due to the cultural diversity, where indigenous, European and African influences meet, the Latin American countries poses one of the richest Lied repertoires of the world.

An abundance of variety in rhythm, melody and narrative forms comes together on this album of Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón accompanied by French star harpist Xavier de Maistre.

Serenata Latina is in a way a collage of sounds, where these different shapes of the Latin American canciones come to life in their sensually emotional essence: Deep longing, somber facets of pain, melancholy, desire and loss dominate the very intimate color palette of this so beautifully heartfelt recording, however accompanied by vigorous life affirming and dance like pieces.

Contents and tracklist

Aguirre: Caminito
Work length2:30
Nepomuceno: Coração triste, Op. 18 No. 1
Work length3:12
Souviron, Y: Al banco solitario
Work length2:27
trad.: Spanish Dance (From Cusco, Peru)
Work length2:08
Guastavino: Se equivocó la paloma
Work length2:23
Guastavino: Violetas
Work length2:50
Guastavino: La rosa y el sauce
Work length2:27
Guastavino: Bailecito (1940)
Work length3:40
Fuentes, E S: Deseo
Work length2:11
Rodríguez, S: En estos días
Work length3:30
Rodríguez, S: La vida
Work length4:31
Luis Antonio Calvo: Gitana
Work length2:45
Azevedo, W: Brasileirinho
Work length2:04
Ginastera: Zamba
Work length1:12
Ginastera: Triste
Work length3:02
Ginastera: Chacarera
Work length1:09
Ginastera: Canción al Arbol del Olvido (No. 1 from Songs (2), Op. 3)
Work length2:13
Abreu: Tico-tico no fubá
Work length1:33
Ramirez, A: Alfonsina y el Mar
Work length5:28
trad.: La Llorona
Work length4:21
Rubén Fuentes Gassón: La bikina
Work length3:06

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November 2020

I find the tenor most compelling when he’s at his most gentle and emotionally direct…Villazón is in good voice throughout most of the programme, although I notice a certain hollowness in his tone at the lower end of his register...Xavier de Maistre, who arranged all of the songs, is a wonderfully sensitive partner, and dazzles in the solo pieces peppered throughout the programme...a tantalising taste of little-known repertory that richly repays further exploration.
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