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Cantar del Alma

Carlos Gimenez, Jose Alberto del Cerro

Format: Digital

Never before has the saxophone been heard in such a way as on this new recording: Carlos Gimenez explores the vocal side of his instrument with impressive effect. Gimenez lets the instrument, which is often ridiculed as robust, breathe, sigh, sing and speak. This results in completely new "songs without words" from Rachmaninoff to Mompou and Wagner, sensitively accompanied by José Alberto del Cerro on the concert grand piano. The focal point and highlight of this highly varied recording: "Prelude and Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" - a truly spine-tingling moment of emotion! It is astonishing how Gimenez manages to convey the intensity of endless, unfulfilled longing, even without text. Catalan songs by Xavier Montsalvatge, Fernando Obrador and Federico Mompou provide expressive contrast, sometimes Caribbean, sometimes Spanish, sometimes completely withdrawn; with the Six Romances by Sergei Rachmaninoff one can also experience a very intimate side of the celebrated Russian piano virtuoso. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this in every way unusual album is the unobtrusive matter-of-factness with which all of this is heard. Gimenez and del Cerro find precisely the right tone and manage to bring out unexpected colours even in familiar pieces. All of this has been recorded in the finest Super Audio CD technology for a listening experience that is as surprising as it is delightful.

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Tracklist

01 Cantar del Alma (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 03:22
02 Six Romances, Op. 38: No. 1, In My Garden at Night (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 01:41
03 Six Romances, Op. 38: No. 2, To Her (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:19
04 Six Romances, Op. 38: No. 3, Daisies (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:20
05 Six Romances, Op. 38: No. 4, The Rat-Catcher (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:47
06 Six Romances, Op. 38: No. 5, The Dream (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 03:16
07 Six Romances, Op. 38: No. 5, A-oo! (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:27
08 Cinco canciones negras: No. 1, Cuba dentro de un piano (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 04:23
09 Cinco canciones negras: No. 2, Punto de habanera (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 01:19
10 Cinco canciones negras: No. 3, Chévere (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:15
11 Cinco canciones negras: No. 4, Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:27
12 Cinco canciones negras: No. 5, Canto negro (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 01:12
13 Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 08:46
14 Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 06:37
15 Canciones clásicas españolas: No. 1, La mi sola, Laureola (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:41
16 Canciones clásicas españolas: No. 2, Al amor (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 00:58
17 Canciones clásicas españolas: No. 3, Corazón porque pasáis (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 01:18
18 Canciones clásicas españolas: No. 4, El majo celoso (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:24
19 Canciones clásicas españolas: No. 5, Con amores, la mi madre (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 01:43
20 Canciones clásicas españolas: No. 6, Del cabello más sutil (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 01:01
21 Canciones clásicas españolas: No. 7, Chiquitita la novia (arr. Saxophone by Carlos Gimenez) 02:38