Toussaint, E.: Gauguin / Guitar Concerto / Bouillabaisse

Trioxido e Cuerdas

Villanueva, F.: Piano Music

For this outstanding new release, Ensemble NOMAD performs world premiere works by Salvador Torre. With a style that fuses the past and the present, Torre’s music reaches into the essence of ancient cultures to weave them into our modern lives. Ensemble NOMAD is joined for this release by Gabriela Jiminez, Benoir Loiselle, Arturo Nieto Dorantes, Tambuco, Fernando Dominguez, Orquesta Francesa de Flautas, Ensamble Antara, and more.

Valentina Alvarez: Tangos De Mi Flor

XXV Cuadros Magicos de Julio César Oliva

When listening to the music and poems in this collection, two ideas, portrayed in different styles and languages, seem to run through the songs, sleep, dreaming and nostalgia.With renewed global interest for the culture of Spain and Latin America, these song cycles by Halffter (Spain-Mexico), Mompou (Catalonia), Revueltas (Mexico), Ponce (Mexico), Bernal Jiménez, Moreno (Mexico), Galindo (Mexico), Ginastera (Argentina) and Félix Mata (Costa Rica) by soprano Jessica Rivera and pianist Mark Carver, will reveal the treasure that is this repertoire to a new generation of music lovers.

Includes sonata(s) by Anonymous. Ensemble: La Fontegara.

The present release is a unique compilation of Mexican music and jazz fusion. Reinventing music, making unusual fusions, attending the Zacatecan Jazz and Blues University festivals, meeting world musicians, Samuel Martines Herrera, the pianist from Potosí, is a brand of the major leagues who always give a home run, throwing himself without fear of what they will say as he collects the best of jazz, composes, illustrates the avant-garde, and provides surprise. Jorge Morenos is a musician, composer, author, and expert of the Mexican stringed instrument, the jarana. He has performed all over the world, including the US, Canada, Hong Kong, and Costa Rica. 

Tati

This new release from Trio d’Argent features Asian inspired French music for flutes and percussion. Trio d’Argent is a trio of French flutists Michel Boizot, Francois Daudin Clavaud, and Xavier Saint-Bonnet, all graduates of the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. The trio was founded in 1984. Since its creation, Trio d’Argent has been touring France as part of Jeunesses musicales de France. As a young laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in 1985, the group has given numerous concerts in unusual places: barracks, hospitals, prisons, factories… these concerts convinced the trio that classical or contemporary music is not reserved for an audience of insiders, but can be addressed to everyone. In its two decades of existence, the Trio has performed in many festivals across the world, particularly in Asia where the flute is the “king” instrument.

Vocal Duets – Dvorak, A. / Schumann, R. / Brahms, J. / Mende

Includes work(s) by Juventino Rosas. Ensemble: Alauda Ensemble. Conductor: Samuel Máynez Champion. Soloist: Juan Carlos Rodriguez.

Seven World Premieres

The Atlantic was crossed by conquerors and friars, nobles, rogues and scholars, but also, from the very first voyage, by musicians and, frequently, to recruit those who would travel on those fateful transatlantic trips, a sailor was selected for his musical skills. In this album, two extraordinary musicians from our country, mezzo-soprano Eva María Santana and composer / jazzman Abraham Barrera musically traverse a long history of those crossings of the ocean: the rhythms and sadness of the slaves, the refined vocal technique of the great opera singers who visited us in the 18th and 19th centuries, or the pianos and pianists that came from Spain, Italy, France, the Austrian Empire and what is now Germany. But the Atlantic crossings are back and forth, Ricardo Castro, Julián Carrillo and Manuel M. Ponce, composers and virtuosos, crossed it to perfect their studies whilereaping ovations in crowded auditoriums. Mexico applauded many European divas like Henriette Sontag, the soprano who premiered Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, but also returned the favor, sending Angela Peralta or our great contralto Oralia Dominguez. Music expresses identity, it is the way we talk to nature, our gods, lull our children or cry for our dead, sing our joys and failures, dream our fleeting hopes. Roots, takes us by the hand in a delicious journey through the memories of our parents and grandparents, but today these memories become ours as well, in this great reinvention of the traditional turned into a contemporary jazz language that is irresistible.