{"id":11887,"date":"2019-01-15T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=11887"},"modified":"2020-12-31T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:58:39","slug":"recent-album-releases-from-fabio-zanon-oliver-fartach-naini-and-daniel-valentin-marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-album-releases-from-fabio-zanon-oliver-fartach-naini-and-daniel-valentin-marx\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Album Releases from Fabio Zanon, Oliver Fartach-Naini, and Daniel Valentin Marx"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three of the CDs that have come into the\u00a0Classical Guitar<\/em>\u00a0office within the past few months.<\/p>\n

You can listen to some of these on various of streaming services, but we always encourage you to support the artists by actually\u00a0buying<\/em>\u00a0anything you like! Obviously we cannot research and report every outlet or online business where these albums are sold (Amazon, for instance, has outlets in many different countries\/regions, but we generally link to the U.S. version), so check your favorite places that sell CDs and downloads!<\/p>\n

To see links to all of our online album listings\/reviews,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nAmericas<\/strong><\/em>
\nFabio Zanon<\/strong>
\nGuitarCoop<\/p>\n

I guess I telegraphed my love of this album by putting it on my Top 10 list<\/a> for 2018. I am an unabashed fan of this player, and he manages to amaze me with every new release. This one is light years musically from his last triumph, The Romantic Guitar<\/em>, which featured an all-19th century European program (Coste, Schumann, Mertz, Liszt, et al). Now, as the album title indicates, the Brazil native has shifted his attention to the Western Hemisphere, with a collection of 22 short pieces (one is tempted to call them “songs”), most from the 20th century, each by a different composer from South America or Central America, plus one each from Cuba, Haiti, and the USA.<\/p>\n

There’s a huge variety of styles here, and the album is so intelligently sequenced: alternating tempos track to track\u2014putting a driving, folk-derived “dance” side by side with a more complex Classical-inspired ballad; and tunes by well-known composers next to numbers by relative unknowns. Among the more famous “names” are Agust\u00edn Barrios (Danza Parguaya<\/em>), Paulo Bellinati (Emboscada<\/em>), Manuel Ponce (Estrellita<\/em>), Antonio Lauro (Virgilio<\/em>), Gentil Monta\u00f1a (Suite Colombiana No 2: Porro<\/em>); Marco Pereira (Bate-Coxa<\/em>); and Frederic Hand (Lesley’s Song<\/em>). But there’s absolutely no fall-off in quality with the (perhaps) less-known writers, such as Eduardo Fabini (the beautiful ballad Triste No. 1<\/em>), Maria Lu\u00edsa Anido (the lively Aire Norte\u00f1o<\/em>), or Eduardo Caba (Aire \u00cdndio No. 2<\/em>, so deep and mysterious). With his tremendously graceful and expressive left-hand work, Zanon\u2014who wields a 1964 Robert Bouchet guitar on the album\u2014is a master storyteller when it comes to playing ballads, and this album has many that moved me (by Carlos Gardel, Carlos Bonilla, Ariel Ram\u00edrez, among others). Combine those with with the spry dance numbers and you’ve got an album that touches the soul and spirit in nearly countless ways. This is spectacular music from beginning to end; don’t miss it!<\/p>\n

Emboscada (Xaxado)<\/em> (Bellinati); Dia que Me Quieras<\/em> (Gardel and Le Pera); Coral del Norte (Zamba Chilena No. 1<\/em>), Op.29 (J.A. Rodriguez); Danza Paraguaya<\/em> (Barrios); Suite Colombiana No 2: Porro<\/em> (Monta\u00f1a); Balada para Mart\u00edn Fierro (Aire Sure\u00f1o)<\/em> (A. Ramirez); Parabienes (Ya se Casaron los Novios)<\/em> (anon. arr. C. P\u00e9rez); Triste No. 1<\/em> (Fabini); Aire Norte\u00f1o<\/em> (Anido); As\u00ed Yo Te So\u00f1\u00e9 (Valse-Canci\u00f3n)<\/em> (R.M. L\u00f3pez); Estrellita<\/em> (Ponce); A La Capot\u00edn (Xique)<\/em> (Honduran folk dance arr. Carlos Barrientos);\u00a0 Guerra Perla Marina<\/em> (Garay); Bate-Coxa<\/em> (Pereira); Lejania<\/em> (Pay\u00e9s); Pasillo No. 1<\/em> (F. Vel\u00e1zquez); Solo Tu (Pasillo)<\/em> (Bonilla); Virg\u00edlio (Bambuco Tachirense)<\/em> (Lauro); Aire \u00cdndio No. 2<\/em> (Caba); Dance of the Hounsies<\/em> (Casseus); Preludio Criollo<\/em> (R. Riera); Lesley\u2019s Song (Hand)<\/p>\n

The album can be purchased and downloaded through the Brazilian GuitarCoop<\/a> label, streamed and bought on iTunes\/Apple Music<\/a>, and streamed on\u00a0Spotify<\/a>, and YouTube<\/a>. More outlets will surely crop up in the near future, as well!<\/p>\n