Back To Artist
Josu Gallastegui : Venezuelan Waltzes and Joropos
Log in to add to your wishlist
All the elegance and romance of an afternoon concert at a 19th century Caracas salon, the waltzes are fluid and graceful; the joropos, energetic and enigmatic
Genre: Classical: Traditional
Release Date: 2006
Venezuelan Waltzes and Joropos Record Label: Sugal Records
  • Buy CD - $14.75
SPECIAL: 50% discount if you buy more than one copy of it today!
Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Lu 2:22 Album Only
Ci 1:53 Album Only
La 1:39 Album Only
El Adonis 2:41 Album Only
Isabel 3:46 Album Only
Vals Venezolano 2:45 Album Only
Joropo 3:10 Album Only
La Dulzura de tu Rostro 3:45 Album Only
Ecos del Corazon 2:37 Album Only
No te Olvidare 2:29 Album Only
Dama Antanona 2:55 Album Only
Valse Venezolano 4:16 Album Only
Tu Sola 2:32 Album Only
Mananita Caraquena 2:16 Album Only
Marisela 2:27 Album Only
preview all songs

Album Notes

At the height of its popularity, the Venezuelan waltz was the musical centerpiece of fashionable gatherings in Caracas where musicians rarely performed the compositions exactly as written. Instead, they improvised, and over time, composers began to write new waltzes solely as melodies, understanding that musicians would modify them. The popularity of the waltz in Venezuela gave birth to the joropo, now considered a prototypical Venezuelan dance form. The waltz’s reign continued until World War I when it gave way to other musical influences, many from North America.

Pianist Josu Gallastegui was born in the Basque region of Spain, but lived in Venezuela as an adolescent and began his professional musical career there. In Venezuelan Waltzes and Joropos, he brings together music he originally recorded in Caracas in the 1970s with new selections recorded in 2005. Now living and working in Spain, Gallastegui has performed as a soloist with major orchestras throughout Latin America, the United States, Europe, and in the former Soviet Union. Reviewers have noted the “great precision, sensitivity, and transparent quality” of his performances. Composer Aram Khachaturian, attending one of his Moscow concerts, called him “a very sensitive pianist and an extraordinary accompanist.”

Read more...

REVIEWS

Ballet1
author: Betty
I love it
Read more...
author: Elena
Es un Cd estupendo, me encantan todas las músicas porque son todas muy bailables
Read more...
exellent !!!
author:
this cd gaves me the oportunity.. to love dance more than i do...
Read more...
Excellent!!!
author: Marissa
It's a great CD...brought back many fond memories.
Read more...
12