Title: Cesar Viana: Piano Music Artist: Carlos Marin Rayo Label: Toccata Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060113447715 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-07-04 Number of Discs: 1
The Portuguese composer Cesar Viana - born in England, in 1963, and now resident in Spain - is an all-round musician: conductor, pianist, early-music enthusiast, folklorist and flautist, with a special interest in the shakuhachi, the Japanese bamboo flute. His resulting familiarity with Zen Buddhism has left it's mark on his music, where the clean lines of Japanese art combine with a fondness for the contrapuntal textures that form the basis of much European art-music - imagine Bach and Hindemith in the formal elegance of a stone garden, warmed by a touch of western wit.
