Issued by the giant Sony Classical label on the occasion of Mexico's bicentennial in 2010, this album represents something of an attempt to construct a Latin counterpart to the numerous collections of North American favorites on the market. One key to making such a release successful is to combine chestnuts with a few unexpected selections, and that's what conductor Alondra de la Parra does here. She's an interesting figure: young, charismatic, born in New York, raised in Mexico City, and educated in Britain, Mexico, and ...
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Issued by the giant Sony Classical label on the occasion of Mexico's bicentennial in 2010, this album represents something of an attempt to construct a Latin counterpart to the numerous collections of North American favorites on the market. One key to making such a release successful is to combine chestnuts with a few unexpected selections, and that's what conductor Alondra de la Parra does here. She's an interesting figure: young, charismatic, born in New York, raised in Mexico City, and educated in Britain, Mexico, and the U.S., she seems ideally situated to convey the riches of Mexican music to a wider audience, and she has even formed her own group, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. to that end. The program begins with a work that's a chestnut for Mexican listeners, although perhaps not for outsiders: the Huapango of José Pablo Moncayo. De la Parra then moves through various phases of Mexican modernist movements of the early and middle 20th century, covering familiar pieces such as...
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