Manuel M. Ponce: Orchestral Music, Volume One
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
Listen To This Recording:
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Chapultepec: Symphonic Sketches (1917, rev. 1923, 1929 and 1934)
- I Primavera
- II Nocturno
- III Paseo Diurno*
- IV Canto y Danza
- I La Noche
- II En Tiempos del Rey Sol
- III Arrulladora
- IV Scherzo de Puck
- I Canto de la Malinche
- II Música Indígena
- III Canción Popular
- IV Baile del Bajío
- V Danza I
- VI Danza II
- I Preludio –
- II Andante –
- III Danza –
- IV Final
Estampas Nocturnas (1908/1912, rev. c. 1923)
Instantáneas Mexicanas (1947)
Suite Sinfónica del ‘Merlin’ de I. Albéniz (1929)*
FIRST RECORDINGS
MusicWeb International :
‘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