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Fanfare Jan/Feb 2006 Reviews BGR125

KRIEGER Sonatina . Nina . Sonatas: No. 1; No. 2. Prelúdio e fuga. Choro manhoso. Estudo seresteiro. Estudos intervalares • Alexandre Dossin (pn) • BLUE GRIFFIN BGR 125 (64:32)

This album is subtitled “A Touch of Brazil.” The cover art is a reproduction of a folk art painting of a peasant fisherman. It’s all a bit deceiving; I was expecting a pleasant collection of folksy Iberian-based material from this composer hitherto unknown to me. Instead, we have here a profile of Edino Krieger, a highly sophisticated Brazilian musician with broad technical skills and an individual voice. At the heart of the program are the sonatas, written, in order, in 1954 and 1956. They are not at all adventuresome in a harmonic sense, but are keenly etched and well balanced. Krieger’s sense of tonal modernism as well as his melodic gift is reminiscent of Barber.

The pianist, Brazilian-born Alexandre Dossin, contributes his own notes, with a theme that celebrates Krieger’s multiculturalism. The comparison to the great man of Brazilian music, Heitor Villa-Lobos, is inevitable, and Krieger even dedicates the second movement of his First Sonata to him. But the folkloric element in the music of Villa-Lobos was more overt. His masterpiece, Bachianas brasileiras , is a carefully designed homage to melded cultures. Krieger’s Brazilian voice is much more subdued, even in a work such as Prelúdio e fuga, directly inspired by Villa-Lobos. The studies show off Krieger’s technical prowess, and the Sonatina exhibits the same taut and original style as the sonatas. The lovely waltz Nina , written in 1997, begins as a sweet, fluffy toss-off, but even this music has surprising grit and energy. Dossin plays this compelling music with great heart and skill. Well worth a listen. Peter Burwasser

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