Ponce: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 / Cendoya

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Label
Grand Piano
Release Date
May 13, 2022
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Manuel Maria Ponce
    • PERFORMER
      Alvaro Cendoya
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 13, 2022
    • UPC
      747313977222
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP772
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Étude de Moscheles (Moscheles Etude)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    2. 12 Estudios de concierto (12 Concert Studies): No. 1. Preludio trágico (Tragic Prelude)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    3. 12 Estudios de concierto (12 Concert Studies): No. 3. Hacia la cima (Towards the Summit)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    4. 12 Estudios de concierto (12 Concert Studies): No. 6. Alma en primavera (The Soul in Spring)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    5. 12 Estudios de concierto (12 Concert Studies): No. 7. Juventud (Youth)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    6. 12 Estudios de concierto (12 Concert Studies): No. 8. Preludio galante (Gallant Prelude)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    7. 12 Estudios de concierto (12 Concert Studies): No. 10. Jarabe

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    8. 12 Estudios de concierto (12 Concert Studies): No. 12. La vida sonríe (Life Smiles)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    9. No. 1. Canción de los tamales (Tamales Song)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    10. No. 2. Danza yaqui (Yaqui Dance)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    11. No. 3. Los xtoles (The Xtoles)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    12. No. 4. Danza de la lluvia (Rain Dance)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    13. No. 5. Canción de la lluvia (Rain Song)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    14. No. 6. Danza de los tecuanes (Tecuanes Dance)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    15. No. 7. Canción campesina (Peasant Song)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    16. No. 8. Cielito lindo

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    17. No. 9. Las mañanitas

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    18. No. 10. Yo no sé que decir (I Don't Know What to Say)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    19. No. 11. La pasadita

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    20. No. 12. La sandunga

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    21. No. 13. Ven, ¡Oh, Luna! (Come, Oh Moon!)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    22. No. 14. Homenaje a Villanueva (Homage to Villanueva)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    23. No. 15. Arrullo popular (Popular Lullaby)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    24. No. 16. La posada

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    25. No. 17. La revolución (The Revolution)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    26. No. 18. La cucaracha (The Cockroach)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    27. No. 19. Primavera (Spring)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    28. No. 20. La patria (Homeland)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    29. Vespertina for Piano

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    30. Mayo (May)

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    31. Mazurka No. 19 in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    32. Mazurka No. 23 (20) in A Minor

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya

    33. Bersagliera

      Composer: Manuel María Ponce

      Performer: Álvaro Cendoya


Not only was Manuel Ponce the leading figure in the emergence of Mexican nationalism but his music embodies a wide variety of influences. Nowhere is this more evident than in his writing for solo piano, and this album, the third of eight volumes, explores three specific facets. The first is his youthful concert studies, which are virtuosic, atmospheric and memorably evocative. The second, the Veinte piezas fáciles (‘Twenty Easy Pieces’), consist of ingenious pianistic adaptations of Mexican folk songs and dances, some indigenous. The third element is his personalized use of Romanticism in the form of mazurkas, character pieces and the dazzling Bersagliera. Álvaro Cendoya continues his acclaimed cycle dedicated to the complete piano music of Manuel Ponce.