COMPOSERS: Lecuona
LABELS: EMI
WORKS: Piano music
PERFORMER: Kathryn Stott (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: CDC 5 56803 2
Short and sweet, Ernesto Lecuona’s piano pieces reflect a wide-ranging career early this century in Cuba and the States. The soulful melodic and scenically evocative numbers, strongly Latin, shine brightest. Stott relishes them all, alongside lightly showy waltzes and roof-raising encores, twee Afro-Cuban Dances and the odd hint of Joplin. Robert Maycock
Lecuona: Piano music
Short and sweet, Ernesto Lecuona’s piano pieces reflect a wide-ranging career early this century in Cuba and the States. The soulful melodic and scenically evocative numbers, strongly Latin, shine brightest. Stott relishes them all, alongside lightly showy waltzes and roof-raising encores, twee Afro-Cuban Dances and the odd hint of Joplin. Robert Maycock
Our rating
5
Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:17 pm