Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Antonín Dvořák, Alberto Ginastera, Arturo Márquez, Silvestre Revueltas, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Performer: Simón Bolívar String Quartet
Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4794447
Release: 2015
Size: 289 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Bernstein: West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
01. IV. Mambo
Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 – “American” B. 179
02. IV. Finale (Vivace ma non troppo)
03. Márquez: Danzón No. 2
Revueltas: La noche de los Mayas
04. II. Noche de Jaranas (Scherzo)
Ginastera: Estancia – complete ballet, Op. 8
05. I. Las tradbajadores agrícolas
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
06. III. Valse (Allegro moderato)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’
07. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
Ginastera: Estancia – complete ballet, Op. 8
08. IV. Danza final (Malambo)
Ginastera: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20
09. III. Calmo e poetico
10. IV. Allegramente rustico
Ginastera: Estancia – complete ballet, Op. 8
11. II. Danza del trigo
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
12. IV. Allegro con brio
When Jose Antonio Abreu founded El Sistema in February 1975, there were two professional symphony orchestras in Venezuela, both employing largely Eastern European musicians. Today, there are dozens of professional orchestras, all of them peopled by Venezuelan El Sistema graduates. Hundreds of nucleos around the country provide music education and social care to hundreds of thousands of youngsters, the majority of them from families living below the poverty line.
El Sistema 40 celebrates this phenomenon with a colourful CD of recordings by the most prominent of the El Sistema graduates including Gustavo Dudamel.