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Alba Quezada (soprano), Jeff Olson (percussion), Lynn Vartan (percussion), Ricardo Gallardo (tympani [timpani]), Southwest Chamber Music, Suzanna Guzmán (mezzo-soprano), Tambuco, Jeff von der Schmidt (conductor)
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 ...
In Goya, (as in La Loca, written several years before it) Menotti set before himself the difficult task of creating one of the most notoriously treacherous types of opera -- the biographical opera that spans many years of the protagonist's life. The compression of an entire life into a few episodes is rarely effective; the bio-operas that succeed, ...
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Ana Maria Martinez (soprano), Chad Shelton (tenor), Hector Vasquez (baritone), Mark S. Doss (bass), Oren Gradus (bass), Patricia Schuman (soprano), Suzanna Guzmán (mezzo-soprano), Houston Grand Opera Orchestra & Chorus (choir, chorus)
In Goya, (as in La Loca, written several years before it) Menotti set before himself the difficult task of creating one of the most notoriously treacherous types of opera: the biographical opera that spans many years of the protagonist's life. The compression of an entire life into a few episodes is rarely effective; the bio-operas that succeed, ...
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