LEONARDO CORAL (b.1962): Piano Sonata No. 8 1/2 (Alberto Cruzprieto), Violin Sonata, Luces y sombres for Flute, Cello and Piano, Laberintos (String Quartet No. 3) (Cuarteto Latinoamericano), Sonata for Solo Guitar (Juan Carlos Laguna).

Catalogue Number: 01R071

Label: Tempus Classico

Reference: 10092

Format: CD

Price: $15.98

Description: The curious title of the Sonata 8 1/2 refers to Fellini's film Otto e mezzo. The sonata's four movements are musical impressions of aspects of the film, and have nothing to do with Nino Rota's score. The interplay of themes in the first ,movement suggests the film's protagonist's contradictory moods; the ironic, percussively hyperactive scherzo that follows evokes Fellini's trademark circus imagery. The slow movement is introspective and meditative, and the surging, mysterious finale depicts another Fellini motif, the sea. The composer's vocabulary is very tonal, in a mainstream 20th century idiom. The five-movement Guitar Sonata alternates free, improvisatory music with more strictly organized forms. The work is rhythmically varied and harmonically attractive, and very idiomatically written for the instrument. The Violin Sonata is Coral at his most neo-romantic and immediately appealing. It is a very tonal work in four movements, the outer ones in sonata form, the others a frenzied rondo-scherzo and a cantabile meditation. It is somewhat cyclical in structure, with thematic material common to all four movements. The trio 'Lights and Shadows' is also a richly Romantic work, with lush tonal harmony and impressionistic instrumental color. In its vigorous, rhythmic sections it is one of the few of the composer's chamber works that makes explicit reference to Latin rhythms. Coral's Third String Quartet, 'Labyrinths' is in five movements. The first, third and fifth have an agile rhythmic vitality, while the even-numbered movements are more lyrical and cantabile. A recurring thematic cell's transformations gives rise to the 'labyrinthiine' structure, which avoids conventional formal devices, of the title. Maria Teresa Frenk (piano), Viktória Horti (violin), Luz María Frenk (cello), Rafael Urrusti (flute).

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