Composer: Javier Alvarez, Maria Grever, Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras, Augustin Lara, Arturo Márquez, Jose Pablo Moncayo, Manuel Maria Ponce, Silvestre Revueltas
Performer: Mr Mc Fall’s Chamber, Jamie Macdougall
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Catalogue: DCD34286
Release: 2023
Size: 1.33 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Grever: Cuando vuelva a tu lado
02. Alvarez: Metro Chabacano
03. Grever: Júrame
04. Gutiérrez Heras: Canción En El Puerto
05. Lara: Arrancame la vida
Ponce: Cuatro Danzas Mexicanas
06. I. Vivo – Meno mosso, espressivo
07. II. Vivo – Più lento
08. III. Vivo – Meno mosso
09. IV. Vivo – Poco meno
10. Ponce: Por Ti Mi Corazón
11. Márquez: Homenaje a Gismonti
12. Lara: Granada
Moncayo: Viola Sonata
13. I. Allego moderato
14. II. Lento
15. III. Allegro
Revueltas: Three Pieces for Violin & Piano
16. I. Allegro
17. II. Lentamente
18. III. Allegro – Allegro vivace
19. Ponce: Estrellita
Confessing to a thirty – year love affair with the music of Mexico, Scottish tenor Jamie MacDougall enthusiastically joins forces with Delphian regulars Mr McFall’s Chamber, whose involvement in Latin American music goes back nearly as far. The resulting al bum of songs and chamber music covers the whole of the twentieth century, charting a journey through nationalist, modernist, folk and Aztec influences to the work of Arturo Márquez and Javier Álvarez, two of the most prominent and successful composers in M exico today. At the heart of the programme are the classic songs whose writers grew up in the drawing – room culture as well as the bars and brothels of turn – of – the – century Mexico, a repertoire MacDougall reckons the equal of the American Songbook, that sho uld be much better known and more widely heard.