Le Tango Perpetuel
Ian Munro is a superb pianist and is also recognised as an imaginative composer. These transcriptions reveal that imagination in works which are quite beguiling in this form. This CD also features a rare performance by Gerald English in his later years in the concert performance of Satie’s Sports et Divertissements.
This CD contains a collection of wonderful piano music in transcriptions for the Australia Ensemble by its pianist Ian Munro, who says: “In these four essays in transcription, I have aimed to bring further instrumental colour to masterworks of the piano repertoire.... I have frequently turned to gems of the piano repertoire that seem to me to contain instrumental colours trapped within them, begging to be released. To be honest, though, I have always enjoyed recasting music that I love into forms that I can play with friends, probably the best justification for arranging anything.”
With the Australia Ensemble at its customary peak this recording is one to be treasured.
Track Listing
Maurice Ravel — Ma Mère l’Oye
Claude Debussy — Six Epigraphes Antiques
Erik Satie — Sports et Divertissements
(featuring tenor Gerald English)
Ernesto Nazareth — Selected piano pieces:
Bambino (c.1907)
Duvidoso (1913)
Escorregando (1923?)
Fon-Fon! (1913)
Nove de Julho (1917)
Os Teus Olhos Cativam (1883)
Resignação (1930)
Suculento (1919)
Where to listen
Le Tango Perpetuel is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through buywell.com or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- TP266
- Label
- Tall Poppies