Canta a Maria Grever y Agustin Lara

EQUINOX

21st Century Lyrical Clarinet Concertos

This new album features Mexican jazz music for piano and saxophone performed by Nup Duet, which consists of Ernesto Ramos and Felipe Gordillo. Born in Mexico City Ernesto began his musical studies at the age of 8 playing Clarinet in the Xochimilco Youth Symphony where he began his development as a musician. He began his formal studies in Clarinet at the Superior School of Music but after a few years changed to the Saxophone studying at the Jazz Workshop. Since then Ernesto has become one of his country's greatest Jazz musicians. He has participated in various international jazz festivals such as the International Jazz Festival Acapulco, Jazz Festival Tonic Guadalajara, Jazz Festival Queretaro, and others. Felipe Gordillo's musical history begins in his childhood. He grew up listening to marimba on his father's records from Chiapas, his older brother's rock, and classical music. His mother enrolled him in the National School of Music after noticing his early talent- he was able to improvise piano chords without having had any previous training. He began by studying the Russian piano method, and fell in love with the instrument. Today, he performs all over the world as a soloist and as a part of jazz ensembles. He is also an avid teacher, and presents masterclasses for young musicians across the globe.

Kaleidoscope: Music by Maria Granillo

Tribute To Life

Cynthia Valenzuela: Celtic Harp

Paul Desenne’s music has been performed by top orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic. Resident composer of the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Dudamel and other leading conductors and soloists champion his refined and unique components, with Two Seasons of the Caribbean Tropics, the Boston Music Intelligencer, remarked “one can add the name of Paul Desenne (1959-) to the list of Latino composers such as Ginastera, Piazzola, and Golijov that entertainingly straddle hot and cold blooded miens of New Spain and Old Europe. Certainly not all composers of weather programmed works allude to Vivaldi’s Seasons, but this one surely did in something of an apotheosis of the Venetian’s rhetoric.” “The rainy season…can be extremely annoying…and the dry season can be just as devastating, when nature’s territory shrinks in agony,” Desenne tell us. His “injection of Caribbean music and intense rhythmic treatment” make for a spicy cauldron where Vivaldi bubbles up one minute and double troubles of Gottschalk and Piazzola the next. Unitas Ensemble founder, Lina Gonzalez presided over this Ivesian plum pudding with as much geniality as PDQ Bach. But very much her own were lightning changes of tempo, meter and affect all cued and shaped to a fare-the-well. Fronted by violinist Saul Bitran’s fabulously over-the-top concerto expressiveness, the eager and responsive players give us half an hour of Vivaldi Furioso and Tremolo Agitato in a facetious but affectionate “Venetian Jam session.” The release includes the most idiomatic and original version of Piazzolla’s Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires) with Unitas and Grammy Award Winner Cuarteto Latinoamericano.

En Vuelo features Mexican jazz music for piano by composer and pianist Felipe Grodillo. Gordillo's musical history begins in his childhood. He grew up listening to marimba on his father's records from Chiapas, his older brother's rock, and classical music. His mother enrolled him in the National School of Music after noticing his early talent- he was able to improvise piano chords without having had any previous training. He began by studying the Russian piano method, and fell in love with the instrument. Today, he performs all over the world as a soloist and as a part of jazz ensembles. He is also an avid teacher, and presents masterclasses for young musicians across the globe.

Vibraciones de Mexico was conceived by El Mexico que Queremos to show the music of Mexico in all its variety of styles and facets and with the conviction that the value of Mexican music lies not only in the compositions by acclaimed masters from the past, but also in performances by brilliant young musicians of today. This release was recorded in homage to the Mexican music of the twentieth century. Among the interpreters in the recording is Dana Zemtsov, a Europe-based Mexican young woman of Russian descent and outstanding talent. Dana plays along with four exceptional musicians from Russia: Irina Shishkina, Sergei Gorbenko, Vladimir Sagaydo, and Mikhail Zemtsov. These musicians play compositions by Manuel M. Ponce, Carlos Chavez, Luis Sandi, Jose Pablo Moncayo, Silvestre Revueltas, and Alfredo Antunez.

Grupo Mono Blanco Y Stone Lips: El Mundo Se Va A Acabar

Tomas de Hijar Ornelas writes of this release: “We have been offered an array of musical pieces from Ramon Noble’s copious production. Noble achieved an honorable title reserved for few: that of total musician; because along with being a pedagogue, choir director and organist, he was a prolific composer during his long lifetime, as well as one of the few Mexican musicians who, following the gap opened and worked by his predecessors and contemporaries Miguel Bernal Jimenez, Arnulfo Miramontes, Jesus Estrada, Hermilio Hernandez, and Paulino Paredes, reached a total dominion of the most complex musical instrument created by mankind. The fact that two decades away from his death his musical recordings are meager, triggered Victor Manuel Morales to take on the task of paying this acquired debt. This way… the talented and perfectionist interpreter obtained, with the utmost care and help from his assistant, an admirable sound record, clean of external noises…”

Lara por Abraham Barrerra

This new release features contemporary music for solo piano, performed by Mexican pianist Edith Ruiz. Born in Mexico City. Edith Ruiz began her piano studies at the Doremi Academy with the teacher Debora Podbilevich and later with the teacher Érika Kubacsek. She completed her degree in piano at the National School of Music of the UNAM with the masters Luis Mayagoitia and Jesús Ma. Figueroa and the Masters in Accompaniment and Chamber Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music with the teacher Anne Epperson. She has received distinctions such as the Gabino Barreda and Gustavo Baz Prada medals awarded by UNAM, and the 2000 Gwendolyn Koldovsky Prize awarded by the Darius Millhaud Society in the United States.

Vocal Recital: Molinar, Martha - JERUSALEM Y STELLA, I. / OC