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1 Sep 2006
Plaifield Public library Plaifield New Jersey Joe Da Rold " I don't know which adjetive to start with; awsome, amazing.wonderful, crowd-pleasing, or exiciting. They all describe my felings and that of our audience for your January 5th recital. It was a wonderful evening, with a beautiful performer playing a beautiful program."
1 Oct 2004
American Record Guide USA "Martha Marchena's performances are poetic and assertive."
21 May 2004
The Republican Ciudad Real Newspaper, Spain "…This recital showed an impressive musicality in all the interpretations of a very complex and demanding program. Her powerful playing reflects an intense and emotional approach that it is very personal and indeed very convincing"
12 Jul 2003
Diario de las Américas Miami, Florida, USA Uva Clavijo "...Pianist of international stature..."
26 Mar 2003
The Star-Ledger USA CD: Canción Sin Palabras "Latin-American piano music Martha Marchena is professor and coordinator of the keyboard studies at Kean University, but before she emigrated from Cuba in 1979 she was one of that country's rising young stars. This delightful new release shows why she caught to command more attention on the American scene. Her curatorial instinct is sharp and her piano abilities insightful in this collection of piano works by Venezuelan, Brazilian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Argentinian and Cuban composers that bypasses the usual suspects. Villa-Lobos and Piazzola are given a passing nod, but this is a colorful, widely varied assemblage of musical voices that reveal a glorious quilt work. All this composers share a common keen feeling for the use of rhythm as a propelling device, but the individual sensibility varies widely from Broadway-like melodies to ragtime, miniature dances to ballads sung by the piano itself. Marchena crisply and liltingly delivers everything from Moisés Moleiro's "Joropo", with its rumbling left hand ostinato, to Santo Domincan composer Licinio Mancebo's introspective "Song without words", for which the disc is named."
1 Jul 2002
American Record Guide USA Barela CD: Canción Sin Palabras "Canción Sin Palabras The title means Song Without Words, but much of the music strikes me as meant to evoke folk dances, Latin American salon music, or South American Scott Joplin. Cuban-born pianist Martha Marchena is an excellent musician, bringing out the music's rhythmic life and verve. The listener will find a cornucopia of 24 pieces running two to four minutes, with a few running up to five minutes. It is a sampling of music from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America. Many of the melodies run in thirds or sixths. Syncopations abound. And you know what they say about music if it "ain't got that swing". Well, this does! It sways and swings, inviting the listener to do the same, and revealing as many ways of syncopating a melody as one might think of. Think casual, think charm, and you'll get the idea. Even the work of Argentineans Astor Piazolla and one of his teachers Alberto Ginastera lean more toward the casual, melancholy, less intense end of the range of Latin temperament. But in the final offering, Malambo, Ginastera reverts to his more typical wild-eyed intensity. Wonderful! This release offers one-no, two plusses: out-of-the-mainstream music worth exploring, played with sympathetic warmth and intelligent musicianship."
9 Jun 2002
Miami Herald Miami, Florida, USA CD: Canción Sin Palabras "Piano virtuoso Martha Marchena, is no stranger to this column. Cancion sin Palabras (Song without Words) is her follow up to Sonoric Rituals. This release pays homage to the masters of our America, with a repertoire that spans the whole continent. The focus on this cd is on traditional piano work. Martha covers an ample geographical and temporal spectrum, including: Moises Moliero, Luisa Elena Paesano, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Licinio Mancebo, Manuel Ponce, Juan Morel Campos, Manuel Tavares, Olimpio Otero, Luis A. Calvo, Jose White, Antonio Maria Romeu, Ernesto Lecuona. With such a diversity in style and resonance Martha shows us once more what she can do at the keyboard, giving the listener a melodic mosaic that is a dedicated study of Latin American piano music, with a style that leaves the listener with a desire to hear more from this talented artist."
24 Apr 2001
Los Angeles Times California, USA Josef Woodward "...played with exquisite flair and objective cool..."
19 Apr 2001
El Nuevo Herald USA Juana Rosa Pita "...the authority, pianism, coloring and the sensitivity..."
16 Nov 2000
El Periodico del comun de la Mancha Tomelloso, España L.L. "...delightful and captivating recital..." 19
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