Argentina Songs Soledad Cardoso & Quimey Urquiaga

• Carlos Guastavino (1912 - 2000):
• 1 Guastavino: El vaso 03:15
• 2 Guastavino: Riqueza 02:09
• 3 Guastavino: Piececitos 02:00
• 4 Guastavino: Anhelo 01:56
• 5 Guastavino: Noches de Santa Fé 03:11
• 6 Guastavino: 12 Canciones populares: No. 12, Mi viña de Chapanay 02:38
• Gilardo Gilardi (b. 1889 - 1963):
• 7 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 1, Lied del pájaro y la muerte 01:43
• 8 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 2, Lied de la estrella marina 04:10
• 9 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 3, Lied del tesoro escondido 00:36
• 10 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 4, Lied del amor verdadero 02:42
• 11 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 5, Lied de los ojos amados 02:42
• 12 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 6, Lied de las manos amigas 02:22
• 13 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 7, Lied del viento y de la fuente 01:41
• 14 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 8, Lied de la boca florida 01:12
• 15 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 9, Lied de la gracia triunfante 03:59
• 16 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 10, Lied de la ciencia de amar 01:19
• 17 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 11, Lied del misterio gentil 01:12
• 18 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 12, Lied de la eterna ventura 01:19
• 19 Gilardi: 13 Canciones argentinas: No. 13, Lied del secreto dichoso 02:00
• 20 Gilardi: Danza irregular 01:53
• 21 Gilardi: Canción de cuna India 03:44
• Lía Cimaglia Espinosa (1906 - 1998):
• 22 Espinosa: Balada 02:21
• 23 Espinosa: Botoncito 03:32
• Emilio Dublanc (1911 - 1990):
• 24 Dublanc: 3 Canciones de soledad: No. 1, Por eso 01:50
• 25 Dublanc: 3 Canciones de soledad: No. 2, Mi sueño 02:00
• 26 Dublanc: 3 Canciones de soledad: No. 3, Por qué? 01:36
• Arturo Luzzatti (1875 - 1959):
• 27 Luzzatti: Coplas 02:04
• Total Runtime 01:01:06

Info for Argentina Songs

Harmoniously united, music and literature were combined throughout Argentina’s cultural history on numerous occasions. A wide repertoire of vocal compositions was configured in the format of chamber song with piano and, as such, participated in the formation of identities –national, regional, local– strengthening the relationship between culture and society. Whether as single pieces or grouped in the form of real cycles, it is an extensive corpus that still remains almost unexplored, were it not for contributions such as the one present, characterized by an avoidance of the commonplaces of conventional discography. In fact, two composers born in the second half of the 19th century are combined with three others born around 1910 —the year of the 100th anniversary of the May Revolution— whose works came to fruition in the 1940s. Thus, the Santa Fe-born Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000) opens this record; after him, the focus is on the Buenos Aires-born Gilardo Gilardi (1889-1963); this is followed by a sample of the work of composers Lía Cimaglia Espinosa (1906-1998) and Emilio Dublanc (1911-1990), and ends with the Italian immigrant Arturo Luzzatti (1875-1959).

Soledad Cardoso, aoprano
Quimey Urquiaga, piano

Soledad Cardoso
Born in Argentina, Soledad Cardoso began her musical education at the Liceo Municipal of Santa Fe, continuing with Denise Dupleix. Moving to Spain, she studied with Alfredo Kraus and Teresa Berganza at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, where she received the distinction of remarkable student.

Soledad was awarded at the Manuel Ausensi International Competition (2nd prize, Barcelona, 1999) and at the International Singing Competition of Clermont-Ferrand (2007).

At Teatro Real of Madrid she took part in Hidalgo’s Celos aún del aire matan, Manon, Don Carlo, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Le nozze di Figaro, The little sweep and Mussorgsky’s The Marriage. Her varied operatic experience includes also Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute, L’elisir d’amore, The cunning little vixen, L’italiana in Algeri, Cavalli’s Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne, Sartorio’s Orfeo, Peter Grimes, La Bohème, Carmen and Viardot’s Cendrillon.

In Spain, Soledad has also performed at Teatro de La Maestranza de Sevilla, Auditorio Nacional, Festival Mozart de La Coruña, Palau de Les Arts and Palau de la Música de Valencia, Baluarte de Pamplona, Teatro Villamarta de Jerez, Auditorio de Tenerife, Auditorio de Galicia, Teatro Campoamor de Oviedo, Gran Teatro de Córdoba, etc., under the baton of Alain Lombard, Víctor Pablo Pérez, E. García Asensio, Antoni Ros-Marbà, Jesús López Cobos, Paul Goodwin, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alberto Zedda, Antonino Fogliani, Pablo Mielgo, Álvaro Albiach and Josep Pons.

Soledad was invited by Gérard Lesne and Il Seminario Musicale to sing Scarlatti’s Il Martirio di Santa Cecilia, Galuppi’s Confitebor tibi Domine and Dixit Dominus, Perti’s Oratorio della Passione, and Handel’s Il duello Amoroso at Festival d’Ambronay, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Opéra de Bordeaux, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Royaumont, Dijon, Opéra d’Avignon, Opéra de Montpellier, Le Havre, Dardilly, Auch, Festival de Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Festival de Noirlac, Festival de Froville, Les Musicales du Lubéron, Opéra national du Rhin, Saint Petersburg and Utrecht.

She was selected by William Christie to take part of Le Jardin des Voix and joined the orchestra of Les Arts Florissants for a European concert tour, visiting prestigious concert halls and opera houses throughout Paris, Caen, Frankfurt, London, Lisbon, Madrid, Bilbao and Brussels. With W. Christie too, she sang L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Opera of Lyon.

Soledad performed Haydn’s The Creation with Anima Eterna and conductor, Jos van Immerseel, as well as Bach’s B minor Mass with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Jos van Veldhoven. She also appeared with José Miguel Moreno (Orphénica Lyra), Raúl Mallavibarrena (Musica Ficta, Ensemble Fontegara), Emilio Moreno (El Concierto Español, La Real Cámara), Fahmi Alqhai (Accademia del Piacere), Aarón Zapico (Forma Antiqva), Luis Antonio González (Los Músicos de Su Alteza), Enrico Onofri (Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla), Santi Aubert (Orquestra Barroca Catalana), Albert Recasens (La Grande Chapelle), Eduardo López Banzo (Al Ayre Español), Darío Moreno (Orquesta Barroca de Granada), Darío Tamayo (Íliber Ensemble), Ferran Pisà (Solnegre) and ATRIUM Ensemble, all programmes devoted to Spanish music of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, as well as Handel’s Gloria for soprano, La Resurrezione, La Lucrezia, Messiah, Boccherini’s Stabat Mater and Arie Accademiche, Bach’s Cantatas, Vivaldi’s La Senna Festeggiante, Carissimi’s Jephte, etc.

Soledad took part in a European tour of Anfossi’s La Finta Giardiniera and Caldara’s La Passione with Antonio Florio and La Cappella de’Turchini, and sang Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots with Martin Haselböck and the Wiener Akademie in Austria. She was also invited to sing Poulenc’s Gloria, Mozart’s C minor Mass and Carmina Burana in Paris, as well as Faure’s and Gounod’s Requiems in Clermont-Ferrand. She also performed Vivaldi’s Gloria with Claudio Scimone and I Solisti Veneti.

In 2011, Soledad made her Japanese debut with guitarist Kaori Muraji, performing in prestigious venues such as Musashino Hall (Tokyo), Symphonia Iwakuni, Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara, and Philia Hall.

Recently, she has been invited to participate in the Bachfest Cochabamba (Bolivia) under the direction of Elizabeth Schwimmer, and to join Música Temprana and Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel in a new Dutch concert tour spreading the work of the Peruvian baroque composer José de Orejón y Aparicio.

Soledad recorded Júpiter y Semele by Antonio Literes (Harmonia Mundi), Amor aumenta el valor (Alpha) and Iphigenia en Tracia (Glossa), both by José de Nebra, Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne by Francesco Cavalli (Naxos), Misión: Barroco Amazónico (Columna Musica), La Guerra de los Gigantes by Sebastián Durón (IBS Classical), and La Esfera de Apolo (Cobra) with works by José de Orejón y Aparicio and other composers from 18th Century Lima, Peru.

She has worked with stage directors Pier Luigi Pizzi, Marco Arturo Marelli, Nicolas Joël, Emilio Sagi, Jorge Lavelli, Massimo Gasparon, Francisco Negrín, Bernard Sobel, Stephan Grögler, Davide Livermore, Gustavo Tambascio, Joan Font, José Luis Castro, Curro Carreres, Ignacio García, Tomás Muñoz and Stefano Poda.

Soledad gave the world premiere performances of Joaquim Nin-Culmell’s La Celestina at Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid and the Spanish premiere of Handel’s Tolomeo at Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao.

Booklet for Argentina Songs