Latin Winds
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VILLA-LOBOS / CHAVEZ / RODRIGO
Latin Winds
RNCM Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell, Mark Heron
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 4 May 2018
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From Spain to Mexico and Brazil, the RNCM Wind Orchestra under the conductors Clark Rundell and Mark Heron here celebrates the strong Latin tradition of wind bands in an exhilarating programme.
The album prominently features works by one of the most iconic composers for winds, the Brazilian Villa-Lobos. Their liveliness, freely changing modalities, ease of flow, and likeable sonorities are a striking compositional signature, the unusual Concerto Grosso exploring a unique sound world with concertante discussion among the four wind soloists and the wind band.
Also heard are the tender wind Adagio by Rodrigo and his arrangement for band of his first major symphonic work, Per la flor del lliri blau, which in dreamily evoking the age of mediaeval tales inspired his Concierto de Aranjuez.
We are brought to Mexico with a stunning work by one of the country's most popular composers, Carlos Chávez, celebrating a range of popular national genres: the march, waltz, and song.
"Here is a programme of sophisticated and often beautiful music, played with style and precision by the students of the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Congratulations to all involved in this superb and enterprising issue, perhaps most of all to the brilliant young musicians of the RNCM. Manchester rules!" MusicWeb May 2018
"Spain and Latin America's rich wind band heritages given exuberant performances. Villa-Lobos Fantasia em três movimentos with its sultry, atmospheric opening is the album's highlights." BBC Music
Tracks:
JOAQUÍN RODRIGO
Per la flor del Iliri blau (1934) *
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Concerto Grosso (1959) †
JOAQUÍN RODRIGO
Adagio (1966) *
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Fantasia em três movimentos (1958) †
CARLOS CHAVEZ
Chapultepec (1835) †
Conductor: Clark Rundell †
Conductor: Mark Heron *
