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code: TR070420
Performed by the Cuarteto Gianneo, containing quartets N° 1 and N° 3 and the Three Creole Pieces by this major Argentine composer. A future Volume II will complete the publication of the string quartets
written by Gianneo.
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Originally conceived by its author as the quartet De mi tierra (Of my land), it was composed in the northern city of San Miguel de Tucumán and premiered by the Cuarteto Argentino, formed by Carlos Campanone, Félix Marafioti, Líbero Guidi and Juan Llacuna, on August 6, 1940, at the hall of the Argentine Scientific Society, in Buenos Aires. It was repeatedly performed by other prestigious Argentine quartets until, after the death of Gianneo, it was forgotten.
The autographed manuscript of this quartet was in the hands of Celia Gianneo, the eldest daughter of the composer and a well-known pianist.
All its movements show a clear influence of the traditional Argentine popular music. We believe that the work is one of the most accomplished within the national repertoire.
Premiered at the Smart Theater, in Buenos Aires, on November 9, 1954, in the framework of a concert of Gianneo works organized by the National Ministry of Culture. It was performed by the Quartet of the National Conservatory “Carlos López Buchardo”, consisting of Pedro and Emilio Napolitano, Rosa Iglesias and Alberto Schiuma. Critic Enrique Larroque wrote regarding this piece: "... Luis Gianneo is at the summit of his art".
Other prestigious musicians later performed this Third Quartet. Among them the Quartet of the Wagnerian Society, with Isaac Weinstein, Alberto Varady, Francisco Molo and José Puglisi, which recorded it for LRA, the National Broadcasting Station. It was broadcasted as a tribute to the composer after his death. Unfortunately, the destruction of the radio’s archives in the 1990s has deprived us of this document.
The last performances were recorded by the Arcangelo Corelli Quartet, with Sebastián Cambón and Pedro Bondorevsky in violin, Mario Lalli in viola and Juan Llacuna in cello, which took place at the Ricardo Rojas Museum and in a tribute to the composer organized by Promociones Musicales in 1967 and 1968.
Almost forty years later, on September 6, 2006, the Gianneo Quartet conducted a new premiere of this work at the auditorium of the National Library, in Buenos Aires.
(Some of the information on premieres and performers has been drawn from the book Luis Gianneo, by Jorge Pickenhayn, Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, Buenos Aires, 1980).
(Lamento quichua - Triste - Criolla)
This suite has enjoyed a wide dissemination among Argentine string quartets and has even been adapted for string orchestra. However, it was performed in full very few times, perhaps because it has circulated as a manuscript in the manner of separated pieces.
According to several scholars of Gianneo’s work, his Tres piezas criollas included a Nocturno, for which no score has been found, instead of the Triste. However, the newspapers of the day and the autographed manuscript of the complete suite present the Triste as part of the suite. When asked, Celia Gianneo, emphasized her father had composed no Nocturno for string quartet. We therefore consider that this first recording of the complete work is a restoration of its original version.
Lucio Bruno-Videla
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