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Revueltas, Eco, Santa Barbara Symphony
La Coronela / Itinerarios / Colorines
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 1. Los Privilegiados (The Upper Crust of 1900). Las Tres Damitas (The Three Young Ladies)
2. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 1. Los Privilegiados (The Upper Crust of 1900). La Levita y el Sorbete (The Frock Coat and the Top
3. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 1. Los Privilegiados (The Upper Crust of 1900). El Espejo (The Mirror)
4. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 2. Los Desheradados (The Disinherited). Los Desheradados (The Disinherited)
5. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 2. Los Desheradados (The Disinherited). El Peón (The Laborer)
6. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 2. Los Desheradados (The Disinherited). Los Rurales (The Rural Resistance)
7. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 3. La Pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare). El Ambigú (The Party)
8. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 3. La Pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare). El Peladito y la Gatita (The Scoundrel a
9. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 3. La Pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare). La Burguesita (The Middle Class Lady)
10. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 3. La Pesadilla de Don Ferruco (Don Ferruco's Nightmare). La Coronela (The Lady Colonel)
11. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 4. El Juicio Final (The Last Judgment). La Lucha (The Battle)
12. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 4. El Juicio Final (The Last Judgment). Los Caídos (The Fallen)
13. La Coronela, ballet for orchestra: 4. El Juicio Final (The Last Judgment). Los Liberados (The Liberated)
14. Itinerarios, for orchestra
15. Colorines, for chamber orchestra

CD Details

All Artists: Revueltas, Eco, Santa Barbara Symphony, Ben-Dor
Title: La Coronela / Itinerarios / Colorines
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Naxos
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 4/27/2010
Genre: Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 747313225071

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CD Reviews

Revueltas's Final Masterpiece

Dean Frey | Red Deer, AB CANADA | 06/17/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Silvestre Revueltas left the ballet La Coronela unfinished when he died in 1940. There's a complicated story about how the version recorded here was reconstructed, explained in the valuable liner notes by Ken Smith and the conductor Gisele Ben-Dor. But it's clear that the final results are worth any amount of trouble.

La Coronela is billed as a World Premiere Recording, and it is, though this CD is actually a re-release of a recording made in 1998 for Koch International Classics. I missed the disc then, but am so pleased to have picked it up on the rebound on the more accessible Naxos label. I know Gisele Ben-Dor and the Santa Barbara Symphony from their superb 2000 Koch disc of Villa-Lobos's Symphony #10, a revelation at the time. This music is just as dramatic, and this performance just as convincing.

The programme of Revueltas's ballet provides a powerful forward movement to the music. After a witty and scornful portrayal of Los Privilegiados in the first section, Revueltas paints a pitiful picture of Los Desheredados (The Disinherited). He then shows a relentless disintegration of the former social order in the third part, Don Ferruco's Nightmare. The battle of the revolution ushers in The Last Judgement, whose middle piece (The Fallen) is too sad and wistful to make the final piece (The Liberated) any kind of positive apotheosis. Revueltas's musical portrait of the revolution shows more pessimistic rage than any feeling of the inevitability of victory. It's a sad, but still a musically satisfying, ending for a great composer's much too short life.

Two additional symphonic works round out the CD: the solemn Itinerarios from 1938 comes from the same California session as La Coronela. The 1932 Colorines, a fine piece with complex rhythms, is very well played by the English Chamber Orchestra, under Ben-Dor's capable direction."