The only composers on this program at all known outside of Mexico are Manuel Ponce and perhaps the charmingly named Tata Nacho, but the whole disc is consistently charming and in places quite artful: hear the ornate little arabesque attached to the phrase ends in David España's Pierrot bajo la luna (Pierrot Under the Moon, track 2), for example. The music is all from the twentieth century, and some of it is quite recent, but its idiom is the Romanticism of Mendelssohn and his age. Think of it as the Mexican equivalent to ...
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The only composers on this program at all known outside of Mexico are Manuel Ponce and perhaps the charmingly named Tata Nacho, but the whole disc is consistently charming and in places quite artful: hear the ornate little arabesque attached to the phrase ends in David España's Pierrot bajo la luna (Pierrot Under the Moon, track 2), for example. The music is all from the twentieth century, and some of it is quite recent, but its idiom is the Romanticism of Mendelssohn and his age. Think of it as the Mexican equivalent to what Americans used to call potted-palm music. To an extent this is the music Mexican nationalists rebelled against, but it would be inaccurate to say it has no Latin flavor. That flavor, rather, is subtle, expressed mostly in a certain rhythmic liveliness and some emotionally expansive melodies. Ponce's Estrellita (track 19) is the best-known work of the bunch, but it's also typical that the pieces fall into simple song or dance forms, with every detail elegantly worked out in the...
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