Mayke Rademakers - La Furia (2016)

Mayke Rademakers: All my life, I’ve played a lot of Spanish music, and so has my partner and duo-pianist Matthijs Verschoor. Both of us have worked and studied in Spain. And I spent some time immersing myself in Buenos Aires, because I wanted to see the tango with my own eyes: how people perceived it, how they danced it in the streets and on public squares. At a certain point we got this sense of wanting to do something with it. We had a number of works on our repertoire and so we investigated how we could combine them with new pieces, music we still needed to discover, to produce a great CD. We found the music we were looking for. We put together an exciting combination of Spanish and South American music. In a nutshell: flamenco and tango. Spanish music takes folk music as its starting point. La Furia is based on that idea. This music is about the heat, the poverty, about lifestyle and passion. La furia literally means anger or aggression. But in Latin, the word has very positive connotations. It means doing what your instincts tell you, acting with passion, giving it your all. The tango flamenco spread from Spain to South America. The tango is truly South American. Although it does show some flamenco influences, the tango definitely found its own form. Perhaps the biggest difference is that the tango is ‘urban’, because it arose in Buenos Aires. The flamenco is ‘rustic’, because it arose in the countryside.

Tracklist:

01. Danza Española No. 5: Andaluza
02. Suite Popular Española: El paño moruno
03. Suite Popular Española: Asturiana
04. Suite Popular Española: Jota
05. Suite Popular Española: Nana
06. Suite Popular Española: Canción
07. Suite Popular Española: Polo
08. No por amor, no por tristeza
09. Suite for Cello Solo: Preludio-Fantasia
10. Suite for Cello Solo: Sardana (Danza)
11. Suite for Cello Solo: Intermezzo e Danza Finale
12. La Rosa y el Sauce
13. Seguida Española: Vieja Castilla
14. Seguida Española: Murciana
15. Seguida Española: Asturiana
16. Seguida Española: Andaluza
17. Le Grand Tango
18. Triste