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Release Date: 09/13/1994 Label: Catalyst Catalog #: 62672 Spars Code: ADD Composer: Silvestre Revueltas Conductor: Eduardo Mata, David Atherton, L. Herrera de la Fuente Orchestra/Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Xalapa Symphony Orchestra
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I would agree that the Homenaje to the murdered poet Lorca was one of [Revueltas'] most significant achievements—a long trumpet-led lament curiously interspersed with vivid dance-like episodes ''like El Salon Mexico on mescal'', as Page remarks about the last of the enjoyably pungent (but also lyrical) Alcancias (perhaps ''expansive bullets'' though, bewilderingly enough, it can also mean ''piggy-banks'' or ''brothel keepers''!). These latter pieces are brilliantly played by the London Sinfonietta, which then sobers up for the austere Planos, which the composer described as ''functional architecture''. Ocho x rondo is a scherzo (with a gentler central section) for octet, perhaps more immediately striking is a Toccata from the same year (1933), which demands (and gets) virtuoso playing from a chamber group. Revueltas's best-known work, the snake-killing ritual Sensemaya, is taken by Mata at the same deliberate pace he adopted with the Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela (Dorian, 11/93) but sounds more decorous at the hands of the New Philharmonia.
There is, however, nothing sedate, except, very properly, in the evocative and beautiful third movement (''Night in Yucatan''), about the performance by the Jalapa (or Xalapa) Symphony under Fuente (whose Sensemaya for Pickwick was reviewed in 12/93) of the four-movement suite drawn from the music for the film La noche de los Mayas: its finale, with an orgy of manic percussion and brass would almost rouse the dead (which presumably was the scene it accompanied). A fascinating disc. -- Lionel Salter, Gramophone [2/1995] |
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| Works on This Recording | Back to Top | ||||
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Homenaje a Federico García Lorca by Silvestre Revueltas | ||||
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Conductor:
Eduardo Mata
Orchestra/Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1935; Mexico |
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Date of Recording: 11/1975 Venue: Walthamstow Town Hall, London Length: 10 Minutes 53 Secs. |
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Sensemayá by Silvestre Revueltas | ||||
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Conductor:
Eduardo Mata
Orchestra/Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1938; Mexico |
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Date of Recording: 11/1975 Venue: Walthamstow Town Hall, London Length: 5 Minutes 57 Secs. |
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Ocho por Radio by Silvestre Revueltas | ||||
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Conductor:
David Atherton
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Sinfonietta Period: 20th Century Written: 1933; Mexico |
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Date of Recording: 11/1979 Venue: London Length: 5 Minutes 8 Secs. |
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Toccata for Violin and Orchestra by Silvestre Revueltas | ||||
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Conductor:
David Atherton
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Sinfonietta Period: 20th Century Written: 1933; Mexico |
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Date of Recording: 11/1979 Venue: London Length: 3 Minutes 34 Secs. |
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Alcancías by Silvestre Revueltas | ||||
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Conductor:
David Atherton
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Sinfonietta Period: 20th Century Written: 1932; Mexico |
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Date of Recording: 11/1979 Venue: London Length: 10 Minutes 2 Secs. |
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Planos by Silvestre Revueltas | ||||
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Conductor:
David Atherton
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Sinfonietta Period: 20th Century Written: 1934; Mexico |
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Date of Recording: 11/1979 Venue: London Length: 7 Minutes 34 Secs. |
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La noche de los mayas by Silvestre Revueltas | ||||
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Conductor:
L. Herrera de la Fuente
Orchestra/Ensemble: Xalapa Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1939; Mexico |
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Date of Recording: 09/1980 Venue: Sala Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico Length: 25 Minutes 14 Secs. |
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