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Martha Marchena

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A Must-Hear! A Collection of Villa-Lobos Piano Works Performed by Cuban Pianist Marta Marchena!This album features a carefully curated selection of works from Villa-Lobos extensive piano repertoirea genre to which the prolific composer devoted particular energy and produced a large number of pieces. When one thinks of Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileirasalso included on this albumis particularly famous, and the image of him as a composer who wrote exotic and beautiful works incorporating Brazilian folk elements tends to come to mind first. However, listening to this collection of piano worksperhaps because the piano is such a cost-effective instrument (after all, it requires only a single performer) the composer engages in a variety of experiments here, which is truly fascinating. Barbaric Poem, dedicated to Rubinstein, is brimming with dissonance (chords almost akin to the tone clusters of He