“Montero’s hybrid idiom succeeds because she mixes and matches styles with
such quirky finesse … Montero recovers this lost art
while adding her own funky sensibility.” (Time Out, New York)
Gabriela Montero’s extraordinary ability as an improviser, rare in the classical world, is fast becoming her trademark. Following her critically acclaimed Rachmaninov, Chopin, de Falla, Scriabin, Liszt recital disc and her Bach and Beyond improvisational album for EMI Classics, Montero recorded a CD of Baroque improvisations at London’s Abbey Road Studios in June 2007.
Gabriela takes some of the best known Baroque themes, including Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major, Albinoni’s Adagio, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Boccherini’s Minuet and Handel’s Water Music, and brings to her classy improvisations the same passion, poetic musicality and sense of structure that she brings to classical works. And as The New York Times reported following one of Gabriela’s improvisational evenings, “no matter how complex the variations, the original melody always emerges triumphantly from a musical tapestry that might weave blues, jazz, tango and Debussy into a multihued framework.”
The US and Canadian release of the album is set for Monday October 2nd. You can order your copy from:
The album will be release in the rest of the world early in 2008.