Even though the programming of works on an album is often intended to highlight their similarities, it can just as often point up sharp differences between them. It's apparent that Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and Silvestre Revueltas' La Noche de los Mayas were combined on Gustavo Dudamel's 2010 release, Rite, for their common themes of ritual and the rhythmic impulse. As the modernist masterpiece par excellence, and as a revolutionary musical exploration of prehistoric Russia, Stravinsky's Le Sacre speaks for ...
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Even though the programming of works on an album is often intended to highlight their similarities, it can just as often point up sharp differences between them. It's apparent that Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and Silvestre Revueltas' La Noche de los Mayas were combined on Gustavo Dudamel's 2010 release, Rite, for their common themes of ritual and the rhythmic impulse. As the modernist masterpiece par excellence, and as a revolutionary musical exploration of prehistoric Russia, Stravinsky's Le Sacre speaks for itself, and many composers have turned to it for inspiration. Less well-known to concertgoers is the intense music of Revueltas, which was often inspired by Mexican traditions, most famously in his tone poem Sensemayá. La Noche de los Mayas is a suite derived from Revueltas' 1939 score for a film of the same name, and though it has its own distinctive folk-like character, which is unmistakably Mexican in flavor, it has been compared quite loosely to Le Sacre only because of its...
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