Salgado: The 9 Symphonies / Meissner, Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
March 26, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SALGADO, LUIS HUMBERTO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Meissner
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 26, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421962566
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96256
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    2. II. Largetto

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    3. III. Allegretto semplice

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    4. IV. Final – Allegro vivo

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    5. Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, "Sintética No. 1"

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    6. I. Lento – Andantino –Allegro con ánima

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    7. II. Grave alla zarabanda

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    8. III. Allegretto grazioso alla bourrée

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    9. IV. Final. Allegro giusto

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    10. I. Andantino maestoso – Allegro con vita

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    11. II. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    12. III. Allegro festive

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    13. IV. Final rapsódico

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    14. I. Allegro risoluto

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    15. II. Moderato assai

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    16. III. Andantino mosso

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    17. IV. Allegro dramático

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    18. Symphony No. 9 in D Major, "Sintética No. 2"

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    19. I. Maestoso – Allegro festive

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    20. II. Adagio espressivo

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    21. III. Allegretto poco mosso

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    22. IV. Allegro con vita

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    23. I. Adagio sostenuto – Allegro con anima

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    24. II. Adagio sostenuto

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    25. III. Allegretto non troppo

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    26. IV. Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    27. I. Adagio – Allegro con brio

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    28. II. Grave alla zarabanda

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    29. III. Maestoso – Allegretto con anima

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner

    30. IV. Final. Allegro con vita

      Composer: Luis Humberto Salgado

      Ensemble: Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Meissner


Despite being the leading composer of his native Ecuador, the name and reputation of Luis Humberto Salgado (1903-1977) has hardly travelled beyond South America. His Symphonies were composed from 1949 to 1975: works of maturity, not outlandishly but colorfully orchestrated, originally structured (the Second and Ninth each in a single movement), nationalistically inflected, especially in several of the rackety finales, yet crafted with a fastidious ear, as one would expect from a pupil, then professor, then director of the leading conservatoire in his country, based in the capital of Quito. The most overtly folkloristic of the symphonies is the First, in which each movement is based on a different indigenous style of music. The tendency to compression in Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony impressed Salgado deeply, and influenced the compact form of the Second. However, Salgado never followed the likes of Messiaen and Boulez down the path of total serialism: the Third Symphony bears a distinct key signature – D major – and intriguing subtitle: ‘written on a pentatonic scale in Rococo style’. The Fourth is another vigorous assertion of Ecuadorean and Andean character within traditional symphonic form. The language of the Sixth (1968) is structured like a Concerto grosso and scored for strings and timpani, in the neoclassical vein of earlier European scores by Martinu and Martin. Salgado styled the Seventh as a tribute to Beethoven on the bicentennial of his birth, but the symphony itself is strident and questing. The Eighth Symphony was composed to mark the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Pichincha, which wrested Quito and the independence of Ecuador away from their Spanish occupiers. Finally, the 12-minute Ninth makes an appropriately refined adieu, shaped around several 12-tone melodies, its exposition outlined in a mere 53 bars, and brought to a conclusion by a dense and chromatic fugato.