Guastavino The Complete Piano Music

... (In the late 19th and early 20th centuries) a number of composers of high quality remained known principally only within Argentina itself, equally inspired by European Romanticism and Argentinian traditions, working especially with a harmonic palette inspired by the guitar, and various stylizations of dance rhythms. Some of these - composers such as Carlos López Buchardo, Julián Aguirre, and Luis Gianneo - produced music of high quality that is only gradually becoming known in the wider world, and the leading creative figure among them was Carlos Guastivino, celebrated by his countrymen as probably the greatest exponent of Argentine Romantic nationalism ...