Gustavo Leone: String Quartets
The music of Gustavo Leone — born in Buenos Aires in 1956 and now a professor of music at Loyola University in Chicago — combines a strong sense of atmosphere with a feeling for drama, its basic lyricism coloured with echoes of folk-music and the Baroque and animated by outbreaks of dancing energy.
Cuarteto Q-Arte, string quartet
Beatriz Elena Martínez, soprano
Marta Liliana Bonilla, harp
Listen To This Recording:
- Una voz, un grito, un lamento (2006)
- I Dramatico
- II Chant de Mort
- String Quartet No. 2 (2009–10)
- Red Quintet (2002)
- Scenes (2011)
String Quartet No. 1 (1995)
MusicWeb International :
‘Leone’s is a versatile voice in the contemporary firmament and he has been excellently served by the Q-Arte String Quartet, harpist Marta Liliana Bonilla, and Martinez.’
—Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International
American Record Review :
‘The Q-Arte is a fine group of players that presents all of this music with feeling and sensitivity, as do the soprano and the harpist.’
—American Record Review, January 2014