Orquesta Sinfonica De San Luis Potosi Zapata - Orchestral Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Woldemar Bargiel, Sinfonie in C FÜR Orchester Op. 30 2. Woldemar Bargiel, Ouverture Zu Medea FÜR Grosses Orchester 3. Woldemar Bargiel, Intermezzo FÜR Orchestra Op. 46 4. Woldemar Bargiel, Ouverture Zu Einem Trauerspiel FÜR Grosses

Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honor and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. Historical recordings include Leonard's cellist mother, Eleanor Aller, being conducted by Korngold in the Haydn concerto and a 1944 broadcast of his father, Felix, as a solo violinist in Brahms. Every piece here has a deeply personal connection for the family. For his composition The Raven, Leonard used Edgar Allan Poe's poem in a work that is Inchalmost like a concerto for speaker and orchestra.Inch

?Celebrated Mexican-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, Inchone of the most elegant and accomplished pianists on the planetInch (Los Angeles Times) performs Romantic-era concertos and solo pieces by Mexican composers Ricardo Castro and Manuel María Ponce. A recipient of the prestigious Medalla Bellas Artes, the highest honor granted by Mexico's National Institute of Fine Arts, Osorio is joined for the concertos by Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto, Musical America's 2019 Conductor of the Year, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería. The works on this recording exemplify the highest point of the romantic musical language in vogue in Mexico at the end of the 19th century, which later initiated the musical Nationalist movement brought on by the Mexican Revolution. Both Castro and Ponce made significant contributions to the development of classical music in Mexico, and their music reflects a synthesis of Mexican and European traditions, with influences from Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy. Castro's Piano Concerto in A minor exemplifies true romanticism with lavish and spectacular orchestral lines. Serving as companion pieces to the concerto, Osorio performs three of Castro's charming and expressive solo works Berceuse, Canto de amor, and Plainte. Ponce's Piano Concerto No. 1 InchRomanticoInch simultaneously exhibits themes of great brilliance for the soloist, lyricism, introspection, virtuosity and beauty. Osorio also performs four of Ponce's short solo piano pieces including one of his most popular works, Gavota, which captures the romantic nostalgia of Mexican society before the Revolution.