Conductor(s): Ben-Dor, Gisele
Label: Naxos
Series: Latin American Classics
Genre: Ballet; Orchestral
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: 8.572250
Barcode: 747313225071
Release Date: 04/2010

REVUELTAS, S.: Coronela (La) / Caminos (Itinerarios) / Colorines (Santa Barbara Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Ben-Dor)

Dubbed ‘The Mexican Falla’, Silvestre Revueltas lived hard and died young in poverty. His music was revolutionary, embracing the ‘vulgarity’ of the people and rejecting colonialist cultural models. His unfinished ballet La Coronela (The Lady Colonel) follows a scenario of skeleton figures involving the overthrow of the ‘decadent bourgeois’ by the working class. This recording is the first to adhere faithfully to the reconstruction by Eduardo Hernández Moncada and José Limantour, the only surviving version of the work. Itinerarios (Travel Diary), a solemn, intensely lyrical work, and the symphonic poem Colorines mark the beginning and end of his most fertile creative period.

Tracklist

Revueltas, Silvestre
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
1I. Los Privilegiados (The Upper Crust of 1900): Las Tres Damitas (The Three Young Ladies)02:36
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
2I. Los Privilegiados (The Upper Crust of 1900): La Levita y el Sorbete (The Frock Coat and the Top Hat)01:09
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
3I. Los Privilegiados (The Upper Crust of 1900): El Espejo (The Mirror)01:20
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
4II. Los Desheredados (The Disinherited): Los Desheredados (The Disinherited)02:37
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
5II. Los Desheredados (The Disinherited): El Peon (The Laborer)02:48
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
6II. Los Desheredados (The Disinherited): Los Rurales (The Rural Resistance)02:25
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
7III. La Pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare): El Ambigu (The Party)01:47
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
8III. La Pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare): El Peladito y la Gatita (The Scoundrel and the Simple Girl)02:12
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
9III. La Pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare): La Burguesita (The Middle Class Lady)01:39
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
10III. La Pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare): La Coronela (The Lady Colonel)02:53
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
11IV. El Juicio Final (The Last Judgement): La Lucha (The Battle)03:04
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
12IV. El Juicio Final (The Last Judgement): Los Caidos (The Fallen)08:15
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
13IV. El Juicio Final (The Last Judgement): Los Liberados (The Liberated)00:51
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
14Caminos (Itinerarios)09:25
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
English Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)
15Colorines07:21
English Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra)
Ben-Dor, Gisele (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 50:22