Tania León: Teclas de mi piano cover

Tania León: Teclas de mi piano

Composer
Released

This anthology of Léon piano works is full of polyrhythmic personality. “Tumbao” and “Momentum” have a sense of play that has one foot in Latin American dance and another in Euro-American modernism. Traversing as it does the length of Léon’s career, the album showcases the wide range of musical idioms in which Léon has worked, some amiable, some challenging (see “Rituál”). A sense of cacophonous joie-de-vivre, however, is never far from the surface.

Sean Wood

Recommended by

Suggestions
Hamburg ’72 cover

Hamburg ’72

Paul Motian, Charlie Haden, Keith Jarrett
Heather Schmidt: Icicles of Fire cover

Heather Schmidt: Icicles of Fire

Heather Schmidt, Shauna Rolston
Tokyo Adagio cover

Tokyo Adagio

Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Bartók: The String Quartets cover

Bartók: The String Quartets

Emerson String Quartet
Berg: Wozzeck cover

Berg: Wozzeck

Claudio Abbado, Vienna Boys' Choir, Wiener Philharmoniker
Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade, Op. 35 cover

Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade, Op. 35

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner
Modern Music cover

Modern Music

Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays, Patrick Zimmerli