". . . the wonderful registral spacing of the modernist Tres Piezas Breves para Piano of Alba Potes . . .". Review of pianist Martha Marchena's CD, 4/2010
Andrew Druckenbrod
Gramophone
Ms.
Potes’ atonal ditties, to text by Jorge Guillén, limn
nocturnal shadows exquisitely and are the very soul of
brevity."4/22/1995
James Oestreich
The New York Times
". . . Her writing seeks
clarity and illustrative open intervals to imply heavens." 11/4/1997
Daniel Webster
Philadelphia Inquirer
". . . the calmly weaving
counterpoint, undulant dance rhythms and elegant harmonies
of Cánticos para Cinco. . ." 11/26/1998
Anthony Tomasini
The New York Times
". . . in Canciones Nocturnas there were
no such demurrals. The soft edges of the voice touched
nicely upon word sounds, and equally nicely upon the sense
of oblique, veiled connectedness with which the composer
had one hearing these seven night-dark poems as, in fact,
one." 4/18/1995
Richard Bell
The Boston Globe |
