01. Jose Pablo Moncayo - Huapango [9'08]
02. - 05. Alberto Ginastera - Estancia. Ballet suite [12'18]
06. -12. Manuel de Falla (arr. Luciano Berio) - Seven Popular Spanish Songs* [13'58]
13. Astor Piazzolla - Tangazo [14'31]
14. George Gershwin - Cuban Overture# [10'06]
15. Julian Plaza (arr. Zarate) - Nocturna^ [3'30]
Ann Murray- mezzo*; Horacio Romo- bandoneon, Cynthia Fleming- violin, Christopher Wescott- double-bass, John Alley- piano^; BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Barry Wordsworth#
BBC MM226 (recorded September and August #2002; CD issued February 2003)
(CD rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans)
Recording venue: Royal Albert Hall, London
Recording engineers: Wendy Harris & Chris Muir#; Producer: Fiona Shelmerdine
Here, the BBC Music Magazine offers a rather curious assembly of music with a Spanish flavour recorded at BBC Promenade Concerts - mostly with Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya but with a single track of American music, by Gershwin, under British conductor Barry Wordsworth plonked in the middle. All under the title Fiesta!
Nevertheless, this concert of Hispanic and Spanish music goes very well, with works by Mexican, Argentinian and Spanish composers, all influenced by traditional music of their own countries. Whilst the British mezzo Ann Murray is no Berganza or de los Angeles, she is surprisingly effective in Berio's rarely-recorded orchestration of the Falla Popular Spanish Songs.
Harth-Bedoya is currently chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and has been music director of the Fort Worth Symphony in the USA for 20 years, stepping down at the end of this season.
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