Includes work(s) by Joseph-Hector Fiocco. Soloist: Lourdes Ambriz.

The three great French flutists that make up the Trio d’Argent: Francois Daudin Clavaud, Michel Boizot and Xavier Saint-Bonnet have spent the greater part of their lives making music together and sharing travel and adventure. In 1984 they made the decision not to follow the traditional path of joining an orchestra or become professors. This decision has allowed them not only to perform in more than 1500 concerts and recitals around the world, but also to greatly enlarge (literally and allegorically) their horizons. Only by assuming this risk they have been able to achieve an abundant professional and human interaction, both in France and in many other countries, which has led to artistic complicities with musicians and composers of every genre, as well as artists from other disciplines. Some of them have worked beside them in creating new repertoire for this instrumental combination and in particular multidisciplinary shows, where the scenery takes a leading role. This aspect of their work is of paramount importance to them since 1992, since they are convinced that it is a way to introduce audiences to the magical world of contemporary music. All works in the program are dedicated to the ensemble by some of the greatest composers of the music scene in Mexico, and all are world premiere recordings.

El sonar de las campanas rusas

V 1: MEXICAN SYMPHONIC FIESTA

Concert d'aujourd hui

Toussaint, E.: String Quartet No. 1 / Estudio Bops Nos. 1-4

Includes passacaglia(s) by George Frideric Handel. Soloists: Carlos Prieto, Edison Quintana, Juan Hermida, Juan Luis Prieto Reina.
Includes work(s) by various composers. Soloists: Carlos Prieto, Edison Quintana, Juan Hermida, Juan Luis Prieto Reina.

This project has a proposal that through the original composition written for this traditional format in the Jazz genre in which textures in the form of the composition are exposed in a relevant way, in which Abraham Barrera proposes a fusion of elements of the classical school, with improvisation, the Mexican and contemporary concept, in its final result. Each theme of the Peculiar Trio maintains a harmonic structure of wide range and rhythmic / polyphonic / harmonic concept that requires the performers a domain you will see in the instrument and control of different changes of time and structure. The themes have a character among waltzes, Son, Huapango, Danzón, Improvisation, all led to a current and avant-garde contribution. De Lo Peculiar Trío leaves us a range of possibilities in the way of approaching the traditional format with a very peculiar concept and sound when listening to the compositions created for this project and executed by the three masters that make up this trio.

UT Productions, Arcano Quartet and the Urtext Digital Classics label continue to build their catalogue of new voices in composition, this time 'Cuerdas Sin Cordura' (Insane strings) containing works that display the fascinating diversity of musical styles amongst six alumni of the Center for Research and Music Studies (CIEM), located in Mexico City.

Piazzolla, A.: Grand Tango (Le) / Bach, J.S.: Cello Suite No

Eternity

Corona, A.: 8 Pieces - Opp. 1, 2 / 2 Pieces, Opo. 5, 6 / Cha

This recording is about contrast. Universes of timbres, harmonies, colors, rhythms and textures; acoustic music, electroacoustic, concrete, mixed; leading composers alongside burgeoning ones; Mexican and Argentine; traditional and alternative notations; complex hearing and simple listening; traditional techniques and extended ones; festive, dreamlike, sweet, terrifying, hopeful, pessimistic expression of sound...a violin and its player. Such are the characteristics of the music in this recording and, in some ways, the sound representation of Abel Romero: excellent orchestral and chamber violinist, experienced child and youth pedagogue, with a profound knowledge of and gusto for both the traditional repertoire and the contemporary. Works by Lavista, Barcenas, Macias, Mary, Baca and Caballero concur, in all their multiplicity, on common ground with this great Mexican violinist. The works here presented, through their wise interpretation, all together form a diverse collection of music where unity is achieved, precisely, through the constant presence of contrast.

Putting together a new album is, as writers and composers often say, like “facing a blank page”. One must visualize the possible repertoire, think and re-think, decant and finally find a sense of unity within a whole that is made up of the diverse. In this context, one has to encode to decode. In the same way, one must receive, with patience and care, the hidden message that comes from afar, through sounds, atmospheres, timbres and textures cutting the air to talk about what words cannot capture, to remind us that each imaginary space is inhabited by sound worlds that are there to be discovered or revisited. In Encodings, six works by Mexican composers converge and they are nothing more than invitations to undertake a trip to the inside of the cello, to its most intimate sonorities. The journey will take us to a re-discovery of the primordial fire, to an encounter with a language on verge of disappearing, which is at the same time distant and close, while we pass through a tormented monologue with all its introspective landscapes, to the white noise of everyday reality. The six pieces collected in here, reflect in different ways part of the voice and artistic expression of at least three generations of Mexican composers. To them, to those who decode the silence, my most sincere gratitude.

Chopin, F.: 24 Preludes, Op. 28 / Polonaise No. 6, "Heroic"