Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime.
This week’s pick from the Orfeo label (C181051A) presents music by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, who died in 1983. During the final decade of his life, Ginastera returned to his musical roots, the Cello Sonata of 1979 being an example of how he successfully combined the stylistic principles of his early works with contemporary compositional techniques. In the work’s finale, we hear powerful rhythms that recall Argentina’s native male dances.