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2019-07-27 18:52:00
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra – Andrew Manze, conductor; Pekka Kuusisto, violin, Knut Erik Sundquist, bass. July 26, 2019.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat N12, $50). Pre-Concert Recital Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (1965-70) by Piazzolla (1921-1992, arr. Bragato). Neave Trio: Anna Williams, violin; Mikhail Veselov, cello; Eri Nakamura, piano. Program Romanian Folk Dances for string orchestra (1915-17) by Bartok (1881-1945, arr. Willner). Le quattro Stagioni (“The Four Seasons”) by Vivaldi (1678-1741). The program certainly looked promising: a pairing of the Four Seasons by Vivaldi and Piazzolla. We last heard this combination in 2016 with the New York Philharmonic; on that occasion two of the seasons were performed by Frank Huang, who also did the entire Vivaldi composition. Piazzolla’s Cuattro Estaciones Portenas started off as tangos, and have been arranged by various musicians for different combinations of instruments. Today’s arrangement was made by Jose Bragato – who was a member of the Piazzolla quintet - […]
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2017-07-19 18:21:36
The Italian-born Argentine cellist José Bragato has bowed his last at a phenomenal age and after a life of intense activity. He died on July 18 in Buenos Aires. Arriving in Buenos Aires at age 13, he was named principal cellist of the city’s Philharmonic Orchestra in 1946, moving two years later to the Colon orchestra, where he played for two decades. Most famously, he played in the Buenos Aires Octet with Astor Piazzola. During the 1970s military dictatorship he migrated to Brazil, playing in the Orquestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre until 1982, when he returned home. Bragato was also a composer of 50 published scores.
2017-06-28 18:13:00
Panoply of attractive piano and chamber music / Perianes, Dego, Viennese and Argentine artists show their talent
[…] "normal" concerts is often very attractive. I will mention three of them. The splendid Cracow Duo (Jan Kalinowski, cello; Marek Szlezer, piano) gave a mostly Polish recital: a young Chopin (Introduction and Brilliant Polonbaise) and three premières: a Post-Romantic Nocturne Op.39 Nº 2 by Ludomir Rózicki, the succinct and interesting Sonata by Tadeusz Majerski and the Neoclassic and charming Partita by Alexander Tansman. Plus tango-tinged Argentine pieces: José Bragato´s "Graciela y Buenos Aires", Piazzolla´s "Oblivion" and as encore, "Ave Maria". Astonishing: at the same place I experienced the 42nd Concert of Chamber Music by Czech Composers organised by clarinet player Luis Slabý, a lonely crusade I much admire. In this case he presented scores originally for wind quintet or adapted to it, with his […]
2015-01-29 02:18:00
[…] Sofitel (Soirées Musicales Premium). Two well-grounded artists of vast career presented an attractive programme. They were Sebastián Masci (violin) and Orlando Milláa (piano) and they concentrated on sonatas: Brahms´ introspective Nº 2, Turina´s rarely done "Sonata Española Nº 1" and a late Schumann opus, his First Sonata for violin and piano, soemwhat dense but with interesting moments. The encore: Piazzolla´s "Adiós Nonino" in an excellent arrangement by José Bragato (who is now 99!). The playing, although not note-perfect, had conviction and knowledge of styles. For Buenos Aires Herald
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