LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas
Nos. 28, 30 & 32
BLANCA
URIBE
MS1117 ~ $14.95
"...Uribe's
articulation in [No.28's] climactic four-part fugue is
impressive...admirable technical prowess...Uribe shows she can hurl the
Jovial thunderbolts with the best of them..."
The Gramophone - July 2005
"...Blanca
Uribe's Juilliard and Viennese training are beautifully displayed...Her
tasteful playing is infused with maturity, warmth, and loving care. Here is
sincere, disciplined playing and wonderful musicianship, unvarnished by
either self-consciousness or egocentricity. [Uribe's playing is] patrician,
intimate, warm, lyrical, understated, clean."
American
Record Guide - July/August 2005
"...velvety
voluptuousness of the playing...Phrases are teased and caressed.
Technically, Uribe is totally in control...[Uribe allows] the music to speak
with heartfelt sincerity and intimacy..."
Fanfare - May/June 2005
"Uribe
plays [the concluding section of No.28] with a strong sense of finished
business. The finale [of No.30 is] cleanly articulated by Uribe. Uribe takes
[the Arietta movement of No.32] in unhurried manner, savoring its serene beauty
and warmth"
Atlanta Audio Society - January 2005
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Blanca
Uribe was born in
Bogotá, Colombia into a family of many generations of professional musicians.
She studied in Vienna at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art with Richard
Hauser and in New York at The Juilliard School with Rosina Lhevinne and Martin
Canin. Her extensive repertoire ranges from Scarlatti to works of the present.
Particularly notable are her interpretations of the complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven
which she has performed in cycle on several occasions, and the complete Iberia
Suite of Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz.
A
prizewinner at many international competitions, Ms. Uribe has appeared
as concerto soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, and the American
Symphony in New York. Ms.
Uribe’s many honors include the General Francisco de Paula Santander Medal,
awarded for outstanding contribution to Colombian Culture, the Order of Saint
Charles, which she received in 1986 from the President of Colombia, and an
honorary Doctor of Music degree from Valle University. She currently holds the
George Sherman Dickinson Chair in Music at Vassar College where she has taught
since 1969.
Her
recordings include
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos.29 & 31 with
Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas (MSR Classics MS1034); Albeniz' Iberia Suite and
Turina's Danzas Fantásticas (Orion); Piano Duos with Harold Martina (Helicon
1020); and works by Richard Wilson as
follows: Piano Concerto, with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston (CRI 618), Eclogue (CRI-602), Fixations (Troy 074),
Intercalations (Troy 389), and Viola Sonata (Koch 7483).
