The pianist Hilda Herrera reveals in a chat with Télam that last February she recorded in Buenos Aires the repertoire of what will be her fifth solo album to be released in the coming months in France, almost entirely made up of zambas and that it will function as a kind of gift from her 91st birthday
“I had an old dream of making a record of zambas from different eras because it is a style that is one of the most beautiful music that has been made in the world, and these people from France gave me the possibility,” says Herrera. without hiding the joy of achievement.
The artist recorded extra material last February in a Buenos Aires studio and awaits the release of still untitled material that again links her to France, the country where in 1997 she published “Señales luminosas”, her delayed debut album.
Herrera details this agency that in addition to the piano record “they made a documentary and recorded me giving an interview because they wanted a complete history of my work and that filled me with happiness.”
Able to see the other half of the glass, the interpreter and author maintains: “This is incongruous, but all my recognition as a pianist, I have had outside the country and here I never had it in that dimension.”
Télam: What do you think attracts your attention as a pianist in Europe?
Hilda Herrera: I think that what attracts your attention in Europe is the pianistic level of what I do when working based on the rhythms and forms of Argentine music. And while that feature of mine here was a nuisance and they told me “we don’t know where to place you, if in classical music or in popular music”, in Europe they have known how to appreciate the way of putting all the rhythm of our music on the piano without a bass drum, without a guitar and without a song. The piano is a wonderful instrument and all over the world the piano always touches the soul of the people and that is very much recognized in Europe.
T: What can you reveal about the repertoire you recorded?
HH: I recorded “Viejo corazón”, a little dance by Polo Giménez, which is wonderful; of course I recorded “Cuchi” who cannot be missing, many zambas and a tango of mine that I had never recorded. But Sebastián (Gangi), Lisandro (Baum), Matías (Martino) and Andrés (Pilar) also came – all notable pianists who emerged from the seedbed of Cimap – and we did many things of which I don’t know what was left in the end. It happens that I record very quickly because I don’t like to repeat myself and so the first day I made 16 songs and they couldn’t believe it, but I really believe in the first intention and I get very excited when I play other people’s stuff.
Source: Ambito
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