A major collection of music by Uruguayan composer Coriún Aharonián.
Aharonián’s music is remarkable for its combination of cool intelligence, passion, drama, and humanity. This CD provides an excellent opportunity to get to know this exceptional musical personality.
Secas las pilas de todos los timbres is an electroacoustic composition of a wide range of moods, a tape collage of sounds from “documents of different places and times . . .” Mestizo is a powerful, gripping orchestral piece, with a stunning opening of deep percussion and brass. Aharonián conducts the Montevideo new music ensemble in a performance of his remarkable Digo, es un decir and plays his solo piano piece ¿Y ahora?