Revueltas: Sensemaya; Janitzio

On this CD:

1. Sensemaya for orchestra
Composed by Silvestre Revueltas
Performed by Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

2. Canciones (5) de Niños, for voice & orchestra
Composed by Silvestre Revueltas
Performed by Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra with Irma Gonzalez

3. Janitzio for orchestra
Composed by Silvestre Revueltas
Performed by Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

4. Redes, film score
Composed by Silvestre Revueltas
Performed by Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

5. Tierra de temporal
Composed by Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia
Performed by Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

6. Haupango, for orchestra
Composed by Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia
Performed by Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

Revueltas: Sensemaya; Janitzio, Music, Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, Silvestre Revueltas, Leipziger Rundfunkorchester (Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra), Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, Irma Gonzalez, 20th/21st Century Orchestral Music, 20th/21st Century Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Orchestral, Orchestral & Symphonic, Solo Voice(s) and Orchestra, Suite for Orchestra, Vocal

Silvestre Revueltas: Centennial Anthology 1899-1999
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Spirited playing of fine compositions

Magical Compositions Brilliantly Performed

Stokowski's Sensemaya

A Compendium of Revueltas Works

Abstract but deep.

Silvestre Revueltas: Centennial Anthology 1899-1999

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Tracks:

Sensemaya
Redes: Los pescadores, Funeral del nino, Salida a la pesca, Lucha, Regreso de los pescadores con su companero muerto
Itinerarios
Caminos
Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca: I. Baile, II. Duelo, III. Son
Danza geometrica
Cuauhnahuac
Sensemaya

Tracks:

Janitizo
Alcancias: I. Allegro
Alcancias: II. Andantino
Alcancias: III. Allegro vivo
El renacuajo paseador
8 x Radio
Toccata (sin fuga)
Planos
La Noche de los Mayas: I. Noche de los mayas
La Noche de los Mayas: II. Noche de jaranas
La Noche de los Mayas: III. Noche de Yucatan
La Noche de los Mayas: IV. Noche de encantamiento
Cinco canciones de ninos y dos canciones profanas: I. Caballito (Antonio de Trueba)
Cinco canciones de ninos y dos canciones profanas: II. Las cinco horas (Anonymous)
Cinco canciones de ninos y dos canciones profanas: III. Cancion tonta (Federico Garcia Lorca)
Cinco canciones de ninos y dos canciones profanas: IV. El lagarto y la lagarta (Federico Garcia Lorca)
Cinco canciones de ninos y dos canciones profanas: V. Cancion de cuna (Federico Garcia Lorca)
Cinco canciones de ninos y dos canciones profanas: VI. Serenata (Federico Garcia Lorca)
Cinco canciones de ninos y dos canciones profanas: VII. Es verdad (Federico Garcia Lorca)

Customer Reviews:

Spirited playing of fine compositions.......2007-07-07

This Revueltas anthology is very well played by first class orchestras. The selections by Mata and de la Fuente are particularly played with spirit and verve.

Magical Compositions Brilliantly Performed.......2007-05-03

If you enjoy Bartok & Stravinsky, you will adore Revueltas. Among the 15 works are two versions of sensemaya plus Cuauhnahuac and La Noche de los Mayas, all richly evocative of the ancient Mayan culture which underlies that of Mexico - bold tributes to proud traditions not unlike the musical paintings of the Caucasus peoples rendered by Khachaturian. The music of Revueltas deserves much wider performance in the world, but probably will not be often heard due to its technical complexity and the need for specialized native instruments for some of the passages. At least Leopold Stokowski recognized the brilliance of this spectacular work.

Stokowski's Sensemaya.......2005-10-10

Great, great release. One of the reviews here (by "127") said that the Stokowski version of Sensemaya was interesting "historically but not musically" and I just wanted to strongly disagree with that. Leopold Stokowski has the orchestra playing in a different time-signature than the composer wrote! The piece is written mostly in 7 but this performance seems to have put the whole thing into 4 (it's probably more complicated than that but you get the idea) and the resulting performance is even more hectic and bombastic than the other recorded version of Sensemaya on the same CD. I don't know why Stokowski did this, but this performance is the most unique I've heard (of the piece.) Whether or not this is a "good" thing I don't want to get into but the recording is definitely very interesting and worth a listen.

A Compendium of Revueltas Works.......2003-04-09

Unlike many people I think, I've been a fan of Revueltas since I was quite young...I first heard Sensemaya at the age of 12 and was blown away. Unfortunately, for years most of his music was rather hard to find...darn near impossible actually. However, the composer has recently picked up a number of higher profile champions (including Esa Pekka Salonen) and a spate of rereleases during his Centennial a few years ago. Such a rediscover is long overdue!

This current CD is part of the Centennial celebration of Revueltas. It consists of a compilation of orchestral recordings by Eduardo Mata, chamber recordings by David Aetherton and the Jalapa Orquestra Sinfonica under Herrara de la Fuente. The results are quite stunning, with enough material to keep you listening for quite some time!

The first CD contains exclusively orchestral music under the baton of Maestro Mata. This is prime stuff indeed. The CD begins with Revueltas' most renowned piece, Sensemaya, a dense, barbaric orchestral fantasy inspired by a Cuban poem that details a traditional snake-killing ceremony in the Santeria religion. The piece is dominated by short pithy melodic statements which are gradually layered over each other to create greater and greater tension. The result is deeply compelling, Stravinsky's Rite is combined with Varese's Arcana...with native Mexican rhythms and instruments thrown in.

The other works on the album are also extremely compelling. They can be broken down into abstract orchestral works, chamber pieces and music for film. In addition, Revueltas shows two definate sides, one is the convinced modernist, who shows a lot in common with Varese, and even Scriabin. The best work in this vein is the Danza geometrica (and it's chamber version Planos). The other big vein is the "nationalistic" vein, of which Revueltas was a greater exponent than his compatriot Chavez. Many works on this CD, Itinerios, Homage to Garcia Lorca, and others display a sense of wild abandon present in traditional fiestas. And yet, even here, Revueltas is a formalist and modernist, treating his material less as color and more as another structural element.

The other really wonderful work on this disc is La Noche de los Mayas. Culled from a film score, this is beautifully written film music and quite ahead of it's time. It's not hard to imagine these Revueltas strains as an inspiration to Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein and the like. The work is structured as a large symphony, dominated by a broad, tonal but dissonant theme in the brass. There is a wealth of detail in this work that I come back to over and over.

Much of this material has very little competition. The chamber works have been basically neglected on CD and many of the orchestral works are only available on this disc. Sensemaya has significant competition however. Salonen has done a really wonderful disc of this material, which also includes a great reading of Noche. Bernstein has perhaps the best reading of Sensemaya available on his Latin American Fiesta album (which also includes a wonderful rendition of Chavez' Sinfonia India)But Mata's reading is nearly as good as Bernstein and just as good as Salonen. Overall, for breadth and depth of music covered, this is a superlative disc and the one to get.

Abstract but deep........2003-02-05

I've got this cd when I first heard of this composer. He is the biggest composer that Mexico has had to offer to the classical music scene. Mexico has a variety of notable composers such as Chavez but none of them match Revueltas impact on the scene.

This cd pretty much has all of Revueltas' major works including his most known one: Sensemaya. That piece has been conducted by Bernstein and Stowkowski with the latter being on this disc. There is two performances of Sensemaya which includes the one mentioned above and a new version.

Tracks:

Tres Sons: I. Allegro Con Garbo
Tres Sons: II. Allegretto Con Grazia
Tres Sons: III. Allegro Moderato
Sensemaya
Sones De Mariachi
Estrellita
Obertura Festiva, Op.21
Janitzio
Tripartita, Op.25: Scherzo
Tripartita, Op.25: Romanza Sin Palabras
Tripartita, Op.25: Son
Ocho Por Radio
Vals Poetico
Chaconne in e

Customer Reviews:

Musica Mexicana, Vol. 5.......2007-02-15

This is an exciting mixture of composers and orchestras. On the one hand, a rather wide selection of the most significant contemporary Mexican works, involving the traditional, the classical (notice the celebrated Chavez transcription of the Buxtehude Chaconne in E) and the more abstract. On the other hand, an interesting combination of two excellent British and Mexican orchestras, under the wise baton of Maestro Enrique Batiz.

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Revueltas: Sensemaya; Janitzio

Manufacturer: Clasicos Mexicanos
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ASIN: B00000J8H0
Release Date: 1999-08-10

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Revueltas

Manufacturer: Urtext Records
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ASIN: B000B9EY2A
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Album Description

Carlos Miguel Prieto, one of the most dynamic and interesting young conductors in recent years, is music director of Mexico's oldest orchestra, the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra. He is also associate conductor of the Houston Symphony and music director of the Huntsville Symphony in Alabama. His 2003 tour with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas began with concerts at the United Nations and the Kennedy Center. Prieto is making a series of recordings of Latin American and Mexican music for Urtext, of which this is a most important installment. Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) began a career as violinist, then conductor, but by the end of his short life had become one of the greatest composers in the history of Mexico. After living abroad for a few years, even becoming a cultural official in Spain, Revueltas returned to Mexico where he died in poverty, an alcoholic. His brilliant orchestral piece Sensemayá is his best-known work, and has become part of the standard repertoire around the world. The other works on this CD show various facets of this composer's particular genius, a distinctive mix of dissonant harmonies with elements of folk music.