Special offer. Julián Carrillo: Orchestral Music
Luis Guillermo Hernández Ávila (baritone), Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí, Coro de San Luis Potosí, José Miramontes Zapata
The symphony is clearly a major work, taking up two-thirds of the playing time of the generously filled disc. While few will consider it a masterpiece, it is certainly good enough to warrant...
Special offer. Julián Carrillo: Orchestral Music
Luis Guillermo Hernández Ávila (baritone), Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí, Coro de San Luis Potosí, José Miramontes Zapata
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The symphony is clearly a major work, taking up two-thirds of the playing time of the generously filled disc. While few will consider it a masterpiece, it is certainly good enough to warrant...
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Although the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875–1965) came to be remembered as a pioneer in the science of acoustics, the music he wrote in the first part of his career has a late-Romantic opulence and spaciousness that was very much of its age. Here his powerful and dignified Second Symphony, which sits somewhere between Bruckner and Rachmaninov, is joined by two early pièces d’occasion and excerpts from his grand historical opera of 1910, Matilde, or Mexico in 1810, which marked the centenary of the Mexican War of Independence.
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- Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí
- José Miramontes Zapata
- Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí
- José Miramontes Zapata
- Luis Guillermo Hernández Ávila (baritone)
- Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí, Coro de San Luis Potosí
- José Miramontes Zapata
- Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí
- José Miramontes Zapata
Awards and reviews
July/August 2021
The symphony is clearly a major work, taking up two-thirds of the playing time of the generously filled disc. While few will consider it a masterpiece, it is certainly good enough to warrant being heard by a wide public…I’m just thankful that Carrillo’s music is getting a hearing after being neglected by the major companies for so many years.
