Robert de Cormier, his 12-member vocal ensemble Counterpoint, and 28 additional singers and instrumentalists have joined forces to present this lavish 2005 Albany release of twentieth century Latin American choral music; yet for all the care and effort expended, the folk-flavored results are merely entertaining, not revelatory or moving. The ...
Carlos Chávez: Complete Chamber Works, Vol. 3, is the third installment in Southwest Chamber Music's traversal of the complete chamber music of Mexican composer Carlos Chávez. This volume focuses on the part of his chamber music that incorporates percussion in a significant way, and presses into service the percussion ensemble Tambuco, a group ...
ASV's Musica Mexicana, Vol. 2, is the second issue in ASV's trend-setting series of Mexican classical music releases, and one of the best of the lot. It pulls together three of the finest orchestral works Mexico has to offer, Manuel Ponce's Concerto for violin and orchestra, Carlos Chávez's Sinfonia India, and Silvestre Revueltas' La Noche de Los ...
With Carlos Chávez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 1, Los Angeles-based group Southwest Chamber Music Society initiates a recording project that promises to deliver all of Carlos Chávez's chamber music on four discs. Once securely considered the alpha and omega of Mexican classical music, Chávez has lost some of his primacy since his death in 1978. ...
The long-awaited publication of the four string quartets of Carlos Chávez may lead eventually to recordings of the complete set, but this 2006 Urtext disc by the Cuarteto LatinoAmericano of Nos. 1-3 (along with two short pieces, Hommage a Goddard, Columbia and Invention II), provides enough evidence of these works' essential qualities and ...
Southwest Chamber Music's Chávez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 1, on Lomita, CA-based indie Cambria was of such caliber that it earned the Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance -- a stunning achievement for a regional chamber group on a so-called "minor" label, albeit one that has been in business for 25 years. The standards of ...
Carlos Chávez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 4, brings to a close Southwest Chamber Music's outstanding series of Cambria recordings. This series has brought a lot of attention to Chávez's unjustly neglected chamber music, with two of the volumes earning Grammy awards in the process. Outside of the String Quartet No. 3, the Three Spirals for violin ...
This disc from the British-based company Cala is one of a series called "New York Legends," twelve recital discs displaying the musicianship of individual artists who are members of the New York Philharmonic.Philip Meyers had been principal horn of the Philharmonic for sixteen years when this disc was recorded at Concordia College in 1996. As is ...
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