Ibérica – Anne Gastinel (cello) & Pablo Márquez (guitar)

Contents

Falla: La vida breve, Act II: Danse espagnole No. 1 (arr. M. Gendron) Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Marquez (guitar)

Falla: Siete Canciones populares españolas /Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Marquez (guitar)

No. 1. El pano moruno

No. 2. Seguidilla murciana

No. 3. Asturiana

No. 4. Jota

No. 5. Nana

No. 6. Cancion

No. 7. Polo

Cassadó: Leyenda Catalana /Pablo Marquez (guitar)

Cassadó: Catalanesca /Pablo Marquez (guitar)

Cassadó: Cancion de Leonardo (arr. A. Gastinel and P. Marquez) Pablo Marquez (guitar)

Falla: El sombrero de 3 picos (The 3-Cornered Hat) Part I: Dance of the Miller’s Wife: Fandango (arr. P. Marquez and A. Gastinel) Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Marquez (guitar)

Falla: El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) Scene 2: Cancion del fuego fatuo (Song of the Will-o’-the-Wisp) (arr. P. Marquez and A. Gastinel) Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Marquez (guitar)

Granados: Goyescas, Part I: Intermezzo (arr. P. Marquez and A. Gastinel) Pablo Marquez (guitar), Anne Gastinel (cello)

Falla: El sombrero de 3 picos (The 3-Cornered Hat) Danza del molinero (arr. P. Marquez and A. Gastinel)

Cassadó: Suite for Solo Cello /Anne Gastinel (cello)

I. Prelude – Fantasia

II. Sardana – Danza

III. Intermezzo e danza finale

Granados: Tonadillas al estilo antiguo (arr. P. Marquez and A. Gastinel) Pablo Marquez (guitar), Anne Gastinel (cello)

Granados: Danza española, Op. 37 No. 5 ‘Andaluza’ /Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Marquez (guitar)

Tonadillas al estilo antiguo (arr. P. Marquez and A. Gastinel)

No. 7. El tra-la-la y el punteado

No. 1. Amor y odio

No. 4. El majo olvidado

El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) El circulo magico: Romance del pescador (The Magic Circle: Romance of the Fisherman) (arr. P. Marquez and A. Gastinel)

The highly acclaimed French cellist Anne Gastinel collaborates with virtuoso Argentine guitarist Pablo Márquez in a delightful release exploring the passion and soul of Spanish music.

The follow up to her successful Schubert Sonatas and Bach Suites albums sees Gastinel select the pieces and arrange them for cello. The recording includes Spanish Classical music standards by Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla and Gaspar Cassadó. Anne Gastinel records exclusively for Naïve, each new release is hailed by the international press and showered with awards. Achievements include: French Classical Music Awards ‘Most Promising Young Talent 94’ and ‘Best Recording of the Year’; ‘Fnac’ Prize 1995 and 2000; Prix de l’Académie du Disque; RTL Classique d’Or 1996 and 1998; the “Choc” du Monde de la Musique, Télérama (1998, 2000, 2001, and 2002). Pablo Márquez’s recordings for ECM New Series and Kairos have received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque de l’Acedémie Charles Cros, the Amadeus Prize.

Gramophone Magazine March 2010

…French cellist Anne Gastinel and Argentinean guitarist Pablo Márquez… bring an urbane and sophisticated yet earthy and sensual quality to the songs and dances of Falla and Granados, as well as the solo guitar and solo cello music of the great Spanish cellist and friend of Andrés Segovia, Gaspar Cassadó. The opening Danza española No 1 from Falla’s La vida breve is a revelation, Gastinel’s spiccato-studded bowing showing fiery notes over Márquez’s crisply articulated accompaniment; the Intermezzo from Granados’s opera Goyescas and the same composer’s tonadilla La maja dolorosa meanwhile highlights the intense beauty of Gastinel’s cantabile playing.