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Americascapes 2 / Treviño, Basque National Orchestra
Ondine

Americascapes 2 / Treviño, Basque National Orchestra

Modern Dark Contemplative Dramatic Exotic
$18.99

Details

Composer
George Crumb, Silvestre Revueltas, George Walker
Artist
Basque National Orchestra
Format
CD
Label
Ondine
Released
Nov 15, 2024
Catalog #
ODE 1445-2
UPC
761195144527

About

This sequel to the Gramophone Award-nominated Americascapes album (ODE 1396-2) by the Basque National Orchestra and Robert Trevino is a thrilling and a deeply personal journey into the music of three American composers. All three composers had very unique aesthetic worlds and with two of the composers conductor Robert Trevino also had direct artistic collaboration. Where my first 'Americascapes' album looked at lesser-known major American works that had influenced European composers (rather than the other way around), for this follow-up, I went back to a more basic thought - "What is America?". Since America is many things to millions of people, I realise that my question had to mean, "What is America to me? (...) Selecting the composers for this American Opus took well over a year. Yet I eventually refined the list to these three composers, with all of whom I feel a close kinship and all of whom are deeply meaningful to me. Two of them I even had a direct artistic relationship with. As a group, they also embody some of the diversity and the radically different aesthetics that thrive in the Americas." (Robert Trevino)

REVIEW:

The hunt for buried treasure is quite an industry these days, but coming up with gold is far from guaranteed. No problem, it appears, for Robert Treviño and the Basque National Orchestra. American Opus is the sequel to 2021’s excellent Americascapes (Ondine ODE 1396-2) and once again the Mexican-American conductor demonstrates a gift for sorting the wheat from the chaff. With the Revueltas set beside the Crumb and the Walker, Americascapes Volume 2 is a complex, thoroughly satisfying national portrait.

— Limelight

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Poco adagio - Molto più mosso 08:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Poco adagio - Molto più mosso
    Duration
    08:10
    Composer
    George Walker
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  2. 2 II. Molto adagio 02:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Molto adagio
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    George Walker
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  3. 3 III. Drammatico 07:09
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Drammatico
    Duration
    07:09
    Composer
    George Walker
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  4. 4 A Haunted Landscape 16:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    A Haunted Landscape
    Duration
    16:28
    Composer
    George Crumb
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  5. 5 Los privilegiados (The Privileged) - 04:42
    Track
    5
    Title
    Los privilegiados (The Privileged) -
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Silvestre Revueltas
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  6. 6 Los desheredados (The Disinherited) - 07:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    Los desheredados (The Disinherited) -
    Duration
    07:21
    Composer
    Silvestre Revueltas
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  7. 7 La pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare) - 08:48
    Track
    7
    Title
    La pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare) -
    Duration
    08:48
    Composer
    Silvestre Revueltas
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño
  8. 8 El juicio final (The Last Judgement) 12:12
    Track
    8
    Title
    El juicio final (The Last Judgement)
    Duration
    12:12
    Composer
    Silvestre Revueltas
    Ensemble
    Basque National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Robert Treviño