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El Vuelo de tu Alma

Alturas Duo: Scott Hill, guitar, Carlos Boltes, viola and charango

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Blue Solitude CD

Blue Solitude

Alturas Duo: Scott Hill, guitar, Carlos Boltes, viola and charango, Nicole Esposito, flute

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El Vuelo de tu Alma

"This is a most unusual disc by a most unusual duo, …they quite obviously can play classical music arranged for their duo with flair and style."
"inventive and unusual, sometimes contrasting themes of quite different, even jarring rhythmic and melodic qualities. …For those who enjoy an unusual mixture such as this, the disc is not only enjoyable but musically surprising, a nice combination."

--Lynn René Bayley, Fanfare

    1. Ernesto Cavour: La rosa y el volcán
    2. Ernesto Cavour: Kurukuta
    Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Viola & Orchestra in G Major arr. Scott Hill
    3. Largo
    4. Allegro
    5. Andante
    6. Presto
    Chilean Composers: Suite Atacama
    7. Horacio Salinas: Preludio
    8. Héctor Soto: Rosita de Pica
    9. Alberto Cumplido: Espejismo*
    10. Cesar Palacios: Vuelo de parinas
    Javier Farías: "El vuelo de tu alma"* Based on themes from the music of Victor Jara
    11. "Caminando, caminando"
    12. "Quién mató a Carmencita"
    13. "La partida"; Solo baritone charango
    14. "Tempo de tonada"; Solo guitar
    15. "Plegaria a un labrador"
    16. Alexander Silas Walker: How I Long For*
    17. Johann Sebastian Bach: Two Minuets from Partita No.1 for Harpsichord
    18. Mauro Nuñez: Estudio para charango
    *Pieces Commissioned by the Duo

Blue Solitude

"Immediately from the opening movement of Leo Brouwer's mood-oriented piece, Paisajes, retratos y mujeres (Portraits, landscapes and women), ‘Portrait of Wagner and Mathilde,’ one is aware of three extraordinary musicians at work."

--Lynn René Bayley, Fanfare

"Blue Solitude is a most worthwhile disc that will appeal to anyone who is interested in guitar or Latin American music. Its sound is clear and each instrument can be heard to good advantage."

--Maria Nockin, Fanfare

    Leo Brouwer: Paisajes, retratos y mujeres
    1. Retrato de Wagner con Mathilde
    2. Mujer bailando un minueto
    3. La pasión según Dowland
    Raimundo Penaforte
    4. Elegia
    5. Interlúdio
    6. Ariel Ramírez: Alfonsina y el mar
    7. Peruvian Folk Song: Diosllai Runa
    8. José and Roberto Márquez: Sipassy
    Sergio Assad: Winter Impressions
    9. The Frozen Garden
    10. Blue Solitude
    11. Fire Place