Alberto Ginastera - ALL PIANO SONATAS (GSARCI BIRTHDAY PRESENT)

Alberto Ginastera’s Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22, exemplifies the stylistic traits associated with what scholars have described as Ginastera’s “subjective nationalist“ period. In earlier works, such as the Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2, from 1937, and the Creole Faust Overture from 1943, Ginastera borrowed from, modeled on, and/or made explicit references to dance and song styles from the folk traditions of his native Argentina. Beginning in the late ’40s and early ’50s, however, with such works as Pampeana No. 1 (1947) and the orchestral piece Ollantay (1950), Ginastera tempered his earlier, explicitly nationalist style with a more cosmopolitan approach and a more sophisticated technical treatment of musical materials. Composed in 1952, the Op. 22 piano sonata reflects this more complex integration of national identity and compositional method through its fusion of lively, dance-derived rhythmic figurations, evocative textures, and modern musical forms and idioms. (0:14) The dramatic first