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Special offer. Luis Humberto Salgado: Chamber Music, Vol. 1
Viola Sonata; Selene; Cello Sonata; Woodwind Quintet
Kansas Virtuosi
What happens when Ecuadorean folk music meets the classical tradition? Salgado’s chamber music provides possible answers...Beautiful performances in crystal-clear sound.
Special offer. Luis Humberto Salgado: Chamber Music, Vol. 1
Viola Sonata; Selene; Cello Sonata; Woodwind Quintet
Kansas Virtuosi
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What happens when Ecuadorean folk music meets the classical tradition? Salgado’s chamber music provides possible answers...Beautiful performances in crystal-clear sound.
About
2023 marks the 120th anniversary of the Luis Humberto Salgado’s birth. Luis Humberto Salgado was an essentially self-taught Ecuadorian composer inspired equally by the folk music of his country and by currents in contemporary modernism. He defined himself as a ‘polytechnic’ composer, absorbing folk motifs and individual dances into an eclectic, vibrant and highly personal idiom. This can be heard in the Viola Sonata where the lively sanjuanito indigenous dance is evoked in music of sophisticated harmonies. The Cello Sonata is more neo-Classical, while Selene commemorates the moon landing of 1969 in striking, unconventional sonorities. Salgado’s Woodwind Quintet combines pentatonic scales and serial techniques to create a ‘polychrome fabric’.
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Awards and reviews
March 2023
What happens when Ecuadorean folk music meets the classical tradition? Salgado’s chamber music provides possible answers...Beautiful performances in crystal-clear sound.
March 2023
it’s the Viola Sonata (1973) that’s the most immediately and consistently attractive here. Salgado is at his most charming in this piquant and playfully syncopated score.