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Salgado: The 9 Symphonies / Meissner, Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
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Salgado: The 9 Symphonies / Meissner, Cuenca Symphony Orchestra

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Composer
SALGADO, LUIS HUMBERTO
Artist
Meissner
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Mar 26, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96256
UPC
5028421962566

About

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.

Tracklist 30 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro moderato 11:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    11:56
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  2. 2 II. Largetto 09:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Largetto
    Duration
    09:57
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  3. 3 III. Allegretto semplice 04:01
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegretto semplice
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  4. 4 IV. Final – Allegro vivo 04:40
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Final – Allegro vivo
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  5. 5 Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, "Sintética No. 1" 13:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, "Sintética No. 1"
    Duration
    13:59
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  6. 6 I. Lento – Andantino –Allegro con ánima 09:46
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Lento – Andantino –Allegro con ánima
    Duration
    09:46
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  7. 7 II. Grave alla zarabanda 05:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Grave alla zarabanda
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  8. 8 III. Allegretto grazioso alla bourrée 04:48
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Allegretto grazioso alla bourrée
    Duration
    04:48
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  9. 9 IV. Final. Allegro giusto 09:13
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Final. Allegro giusto
    Duration
    09:13
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  10. 10 I. Andantino maestoso – Allegro con vita 12:13
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Andantino maestoso – Allegro con vita
    Duration
    12:13
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  11. 11 II. Andante cantabile 08:19
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile
    Duration
    08:19
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  12. 12 III. Allegro festive 05:00
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Allegro festive
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  13. 13 IV. Final rapsódico 07:34
    Track
    13
    Title
    IV. Final rapsódico
    Duration
    07:34
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  14. 14 I. Allegro risoluto 06:49
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Allegro risoluto
    Duration
    06:49
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  15. 15 II. Moderato assai 08:01
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Moderato assai
    Duration
    08:01
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  16. 16 III. Andantino mosso 06:13
    Track
    16
    Title
    III. Andantino mosso
    Duration
    06:13
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  17. 17 IV. Allegro dramático 05:56
    Track
    17
    Title
    IV. Allegro dramático
    Duration
    05:56
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  18. 18 Symphony No. 9 in D Major, "Sintética No. 2" 12:49
    Track
    18
    Title
    Symphony No. 9 in D Major, "Sintética No. 2"
    Duration
    12:49
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  19. 19 I. Maestoso – Allegro festive 07:14
    Track
    19
    Title
    I. Maestoso – Allegro festive
    Duration
    07:14
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  20. 20 II. Adagio espressivo 04:19
    Track
    20
    Title
    II. Adagio espressivo
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  21. 21 III. Allegretto poco mosso 06:11
    Track
    21
    Title
    III. Allegretto poco mosso
    Duration
    06:11
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  22. 22 IV. Allegro con vita 05:03
    Track
    22
    Title
    IV. Allegro con vita
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  23. 23 I. Adagio sostenuto – Allegro con anima 08:00
    Track
    23
    Title
    I. Adagio sostenuto – Allegro con anima
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  24. 24 II. Adagio sostenuto 08:09
    Track
    24
    Title
    II. Adagio sostenuto
    Duration
    08:09
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  25. 25 III. Allegretto non troppo 04:35
    Track
    25
    Title
    III. Allegretto non troppo
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  26. 26 IV. Allegro maestoso 04:23
    Track
    26
    Title
    IV. Allegro maestoso
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  27. 27 I. Adagio – Allegro con brio 08:47
    Track
    27
    Title
    I. Adagio – Allegro con brio
    Duration
    08:47
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  28. 28 II. Grave alla zarabanda 06:16
    Track
    28
    Title
    II. Grave alla zarabanda
    Duration
    06:16
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  29. 29 III. Maestoso – Allegretto con anima 05:29
    Track
    29
    Title
    III. Maestoso – Allegretto con anima
    Duration
    05:29
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner
  30. 30 IV. Final. Allegro con vita 03:41
    Track
    30
    Title
    IV. Final. Allegro con vita
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Luis Humberto Salgado
    Ensemble
    Cuenca Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Michael Meissner