Smiles and Tears
Here we indulge in creative examples of wit and humor in Latino music, from a Jazz rendition of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto to a Latino version of Ravel’s Bolero. Then true to the Latino style after all the fun this program introduces the painfully serious “Ollantay” by Alberto Ginastera. It could have been exactly the opposite…
Playlist:
Mozart/D’Rivera
-Adagio/ sobre un tema de Mozart Tenerife Symphony Orchestra
Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet
Alex Brown, piano
Renaud Garcia-Fons, double-bass
Mark Miralta, drums
Pablo Zinger conductor
February 16, 2008, Tenerife, Canary Islands
Archive recording
Ruben Rada
-Botija de mi Pais
Ruben Rada, voice
Dos BW2018
Federico Garcis Vigil
-Variaciones sobre un Tema de Rada
Orquesta Filarmonica de Montedvideo
Federico Garcia Vigil, conductor
OFM 4
Alfredo Rugeles
-Tanguitis Martha Marchena, pn. Albany Records 242
Johan Sebastian Mastropiero
-Concerto Grosso alla Rustica
-Miss Lilly Higgins Sings Shimmy in Mississippi Springs
Les Luthiers
Trova 1972
Alberto Ginastera: Ollantay, Op. 17
1-.Landscape of Ollantaytambo
- The Warriors 3. Death of Ollantay
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Jan Wagner, conductor
Bridge 9130a