Manuel M. Ponce: Orchestral Music, Volume One

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Catalogue No: TOCC0502
EAN/UPC: 5060113445025
Release Date: 2018-12-01
Composer: Manuel Ponce
Artists: José Miramontes Zapata, Orquestra Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí

The Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948) is best known for a handful of popular songs and guitar pieces, and yet he left a huge legacy of some 500 works – orchestral, chamber and piano music, art songs and folksong arrangements – which together form the foundation of the Mexican national repertoire. The works recorded here – some for the first time – reveal a composer with a surefooted command of the orchestra, his early impressionism becoming infused with echoes of Mexican indigenous culture in textures of unsuspected richness.

Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí
José Miramontes Zapata, conductor

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    Chapultepec: Symphonic Sketches (1917, rev. 1923, 1929 and 1934)
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  1. I Primavera
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  3. II Nocturno
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  5. III Paseo Diurno*
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  7. IV Canto y Danza
  8. Estampas Nocturnas (1908/1912, rev. c. 1923)
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  9. I La Noche
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  11. II En Tiempos del Rey Sol
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  13. III Arrulladora
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  15. IV Scherzo de Puck
  16. Instantáneas Mexicanas (1947)
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  17. I Canto de la Malinche
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  19. II Música Indígena
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  21. III Canción Popular
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  23. IV Baile del Bajío
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  25. V Danza I
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  27. VI Danza II
  28. Suite Sinfónica del ‘Merlin’ de I. Albéniz (1929)*
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  29. I Preludio –
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  31. II Andante –
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  33. III Danza –
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  35. IV Final

FIRST RECORDINGS

1 review for Manuel M. Ponce: Orchestral Music, Volume One

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    ‘This is a most auspicious start to the Ponce series on Toccata, with fiery and evocative performances under José Miramontes Zapata.’

    —Jonathan Woolf. MusicWeb International

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