Nin-Culmell: Tonadas

1. Tonadas for piano, Book 1
Composed by Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell
with Maria Luisa Cantos

2. Tonadas for piano, Book 2
Composed by Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell
with Maria Luisa Cantos

3. Tonadas for piano, Book 3
Composed by Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell
with Maria Luisa Cantos

4. Tonadas for piano, Book 4
Composed by Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell
with Maria Luisa Cantos

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Granados: Goyescas Books 1 & 2 / Nin-Culmell: Tonadas (Volumes 1-4) Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004SMN0 Release Date: 1994-04-20

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Nin-Culmell: Tonadas Manufacturer: Marco Polo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000024OGM Release Date: 1993-01-01

Average customer rating: Tapping the life blood of Spanish music. In Memoriam - Joaquín María Nin-Culmell (1908-2004)

Nin-Culmell: Tonadas Manufacturer: Marco Polo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000460G Release Date: 1994-01-04

Tracks:

1. Vol I: Basque love-song (Vascongadas)
2. Vol I: Castilian jota (Palencia)
3. Vol I: Peasant's song (Mallorca)
4. Vol I: Ploughing-song from Salamanca
5. Vol I: Var on the ploughing song from Salamanca
6. Vol I: Peasant dance from Salamanca
7. Vol I: Dance from Burgos
8. Vol I: Herdsman's song (Asturias)
9. Vol I: Jota from Alicante
10. Vol I: Dance (Galicia)
11. Vol I: Tambourine song (Galicia)
12. Vol I: Song (Galicia)
13. Vol II: Castilian jota
14. Vol II: Peasant's song (Leon)
15. Vol II: Castilian song
16. Vol II: Serenade (Castilla)
17. Vol II: Song from Extremadura
18. Vol II: Jota from Extremadura
19. Vol II: Basque autumn-song
20. Vol II: Song from Asturias
21. Vol II: Seguidilla from Murcia
22. Vol II: Threshing song (Murcia)
23. Vol II: Muleteer's song (Galicia)
24. Vol II: Dance (Galicia)
25. Vol III: Courtly dance (Valencia)
26. Vol III: Song from Asturias
27. Vol III: Bagpipe dance (Asturias)
28. Vol III: Song from Asturias
29. Vol III: Tambourine dance (Galicia)
30. Vol III: Motif from Santo Domingo (Canary Islands)
31. Vol III: Dance (Balearic Islands)
32. Vol III: Lullaby (Balearic Islands)
33. Vol III: Dance (Balearic Islands)
34. Vol III: Dance of the little horses from Felanitcx (Balearic Islands)
35. Vol III: Dance from Arta (Balearic Islands)
36. Vol III: Dance (Balearic Islands)
37. Vol IV: Dance of the fan & bouquet (Catalonia)
38. Vol IV: Catalonian polka (Catalonia)
39. Vol IV: Dance of the garlands (Catalonia)
40. Vol IV: Catalonian dance (Catalonia)
41. Vol IV: The song of the birds (Catalonia)
42. Vol IV: Country dance (Catalonia)
43. Vol IV: Peasant song (Leon)
44. Vol IV: Stick dance (Extremadura)
45. Vol IV: Jota from Extremadura
46. Vol IV: Basque song (Vascongadas)
47. Vol IV: Basque dance (Vascongadas)
48. Vol IV: Castilian jota

Customer Reviews:

Tapping the life blood of Spanish music........2004-05-20

A useful review of this CD on the Internet by J Scott Morrison led to a purchase and hours of enjoyment for me here in Australia. Three things are remarkable. Firstly, all the piano pieces in the collection are very short; nothing exceeds three minutes in duration. Secondly, every rhythm, thread of melody, progression and harmony will recall Spanish music you have heard before, whether written by Spaniards or others. Joaqu?n Nin-Culmell seems to have discovered the basic elements of whatever it is that gives Spanish music its life. Thirdly, the piano writing is simple, spare and unpretentious. These are not virtuoso piano pieces; they present a sound picture such as might emanate from a guitar.

Joaqu?n Nin-Culmell, son of Cuban composer Joach?n Nin, was brother to writer Ana?s Nin. His Tonadas were written between 1956 and 1961. Barcelona born Maria Luise Cantos is the pianist, the sound quality is excellent, and Keith Anderson's notes are useful for identifying the forms of the dance songs arranged and collected here, and the regions of Spain from which they derive.

In Memoriam - Joaquín María Nin-Culmell (1908-2004).......2004-03-09

As I write this I am saddened to have learned of the death six weeks ago of Joaquín María Nin-Culmell (1908-2004), composer, long-time professor of music at the University of California - Berkeley, son of Cuban composer Joaquín Nin, brother of famed writer Anaïs Nin. This CD, issued in 1994, has long been in my collection and I am a little surprised to find it was never reviewed here at Amazon.

The four books of Tonadas were written between 1956 and 1961. 'Tonada' simply means melody in Spanish. And these tonadas are Nin-Culmell's arrangements for piano solo of tunes from all over the Iberian peninsula. They include traditional forms like the Basque zortziko (what Alkan called the 'zorcico'), the seguidillas, muiñeira, baile, vaqueirada, jota, and even the mateixa from the Baleraic Islands, and more. Nin-Culmell studied for a time with Manuel de Falla and these pieces are influenced by the style of Falla's similar works. They are fairly simple in construction but have exceedingly subtle and imaginative harmonic treatment. If you know the piano music of Federico Mompou you may have some idea of what these pieces sound like, although they are in general more outgoing and markedly more rhythmic that Mompou's canciones and even his danzas.

The pianist here is Maria Luisa Cantos, a Catalan who specializes in Spanish piano music. She certainly is able to imbue these 48 short pieces with the appropriate rhythmic feeling and characteristic turns of phrase.

TT=70:39

Scott Morrison

Track Listings:

1. Orchestral Highlights
2. Pärt: Summa
3. Peter Schmoll Und Seine Nachbarn
4. Piano Music: Full Moon, Mexican Ballade, Four Mexican Dances, In Spite of Everything, and Many Others
5. Piano Sonata / Jugendklange
6. Piano Sonatas 1 & 4
7. Piano Trios 2
8. Pieces for Piano
9. Pierre Boulez: Domaines - Ensemble Musique Vivante
10. Robert Schumann: Heine Lieder

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