Composer: Manuel María Ponce
Orchestra: Orquesta Sinfonica de San Luis Potosi
Conductor: Jose Miramontes Zapata
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0502
Release: 2018
Size: 767 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Ponce: Chapultepec
01. I. Primavera
02. II. Nocturno
03. III. Paseo diumo
04. IV. Canto y danza
anon.: Estampas Nocturnas
05. I. La noche
06. II. En tiempos del rey sol
07. III. Arrulladora
08. IV. Scherzo de puck
Ponce: Instantaneas Mexicanas
09. I. Canto de la malinche
10. II. Música indígena
11. III. Canción popular
12. IV.Baile del bajío
13. V. Danza I
14. VI. Danza II
Ponce: Merlín Suite (After Albéniz)
15. I. Preludio
16. II. Andante
17. III. Danza
18. IV. Final
The Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948) is best known for a handful of popular songs and guitar pieces, and yet he left a huge legacy of some 500 works – orchestral, chamber and piano music, art songs and folksong arrangements. These works together form the foundation of the Mexican national repertoire, and yet they are as good as unknown.
The works recorded here – some for the first time – reveal a composer with a surefooted command of the orchestra: his early impressionism is infused with echoes of Mexican indigenous culture in textures of unsuspected richness. This release is the first in a Toccata Classics series exploring Mexico’s unknown heritage of classical music.
José Miramontes Zapata graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in Leningrad. He has worked as pianist, choir director and cultural manager. In 2000 he founded the Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí and as artistic director and principal conductor of the Orchestra he has promoted many choral and orchestral actitivities with local young musicians, developing a constant cultural growth in San Luis Potosí, with more than 80 concerts per year. The San Luis Potosí Symphony Orchestra occupies an important role in the diffusion of Mexican symphonic music, with concerts in some of the major halls in México, China and Europe.