Cinco de Mayo | Mexican Classical Music

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with this vibrant and wide-ranging collection of Mexican classical music, featuring everything from orchestral showpieces and modernist influences to traditional guitar works infused with the spirit of popular song and regional folk traditions.

Composer: Manuel María Ponce, Julio Cesar Oliva, Heriberto Soberanes, José Pablo Moncayo, Silvestre Revueltas and José Ángel Ramírez
Artists: Rodolfo Pérez guitar
Orquestra Sinfonica di Venezuela
Theodore Kuchar conductor

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Beginning with Moncayo’s famous Huapango, a vibrant showpiece written in 1941 and which incorporates three of Mexico’s popular dances, the compilation traverses an array of distinctive, regional rhythms that have been integrated into traditional and formal structures. Following that, Revueltas’ ‘Janitzio’ demonstrates a clear affinity for the harmonic language of European modernists such as Stravinsky.

After that begins a miniature musical history of Mexico through the sound of the guitar, from Sinaloa songs to a seminal work of 20th-century guitar music, the Sonata Mexicana by Manuel Ponce, possibly the century’s first sonata for the instrument.
Popular song – a crucial musical form in Mexico, a nation for which singing is very much a part of everyday life – is woven into these melodies and references throughout, as well as forming the basis for Ponce’s Tres canciones populares. This is only one of the ways in which this music transports us to atmospheric Mexican locations: Oliva’s ‘Una tarde de verano’ (from Tres Instantes de Éxtasis) seems infused with the breeze of a rural Mexican idyll at sunset; the final movement of the Sonata Mexicana conjures up the colour and festivity of an urban fiesta. Meanwhile, Ramírez’s Fantasía Sinaloense allows the guitarist to showcase some of his finest feats of virtuosity.

Rodolfo Pérez is the ideal soloist for this set in more ways than one. Beyond his technical ability and knowledge of Mexican music history, he is closely and personally linked to the composers featured here, being the dedicatee of works by both Oliva and Ramírez.


Tracklist:
00:00:00 José Pablo Moncayo: Huapango
00:08:10 Silvestre Revueltas: Janitzio
Manuel María Ponce:
Sonata Mexicana:
00:15:42 I. Allegro moderato
00:20:10 II. Andantino affetuoso
00:24:09 III. Allegretto in tempo di serenata
00:26:10 IV. Allegretto un poco vivace
Tres canciones populares:
00:30:10 I. La Pajarera
00:31:23 II. Por ti mi Corazón
00:34:45 III. La Valentina
Julio Cesar Oliva:
Tres Instantes de Éxtasis:
00:36:41 I. Ensoñación
00:39:51 II. Una Tarde de Verano
00:44:12 III. Encantamiento
Heriberto Soberanes:
Miniaturas Sinaloenses:
00:49:18 I. La India Bonita (arr. H. Soberanes)
00:52:01 II. El Quelite (arr. H. Soberanes)
00:53:15 III. Por qué lloras? (arr. H. Soberanes)
00:59:13 José Ángel Ramírez: Fantasía Sinaloense
01:08:46 Manuel María Ponce: Estrellita (arr. M. Abril & M. Barrueco)


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