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Ravel: L'Heure espagnole - Bolero

François-Xavier Roth

Opera - Released June 16, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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The main attraction of the orchestra Les Siècles and its conductor François-Xavier Roth is its use of period instruments from around 1900, the time period in which the group specializes. One could hardly ask for a better demonstration record (as audiophiles used to call them) than this take on Maurice Ravel's L'Heure espagnole, an edgy, rather tawdry but undeniably funny little opera about the extramarital escapades of a clockmaker's wife, complete with excellent satirical characterizations of her two lovers. The opera receives a pitch-perfect performance here from a quintet of younger singers, who deliver the kind of dry, close-to-spoken singing Ravel wanted. Even better, though, is the orchestral sound, where the opera's large contingent of winds, brass, and percussion displays the sound of Les Siècles at its most vivid. The score calls for trios of oboes, clarinets, and bassoons, and these all have a tangier sound than modern instruments provide. The program ends with Boléro, and this, too, stands out from among the hundreds or thousands of other recordings on the market. Ravel had very fixed ideas about how he wanted the work to sound, and he wrangled with Arturo Toscanini, who conducted the premiere in New York, about it: it should be played absolutely straight, with no variation in tempo and little expression. Notwithstanding the connotations that became attached to the work later on, he viewed it as an abstract work, and that is exactly what it becomes in Roth's bracing reading. Listeners who have been wanting to sample Roth's work with this orchestra are enthusiastically encouraged to try this release, which made classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Narvaez : Los Libros del Delphin

Xavier Díaz-Latorre

Classical - Released September 19, 2019 | Passacaille

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Planet Pit (Deluxe Version)

Pitbull

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 17, 2011 | Mr.305 - Polo Grounds Music - J Records

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Para Los Rumberos

Tito Puente

World - Released January 1, 1972 | Craft Recordings

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Lo Mato

Willie Colón

World - Released January 1, 1973 | Fania

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A Room of Mirrors

Emiliano Gonzalez Toro

Classical - Released March 4, 2022 | Gemelli Factory

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The giant against whom all Italian composers were measured throughout the seventeenth century was Monteverdi, the absolute monarch of vocal music and, if not inventor, at least the genial promoter of new forms. Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Zachary WIlder and I Gemelli have chosen to focus on the reflections of this tutelary figure, evoking the master rather than the citer. It was Monteverdi who “invented” the opera duet, and more precisely the tenor duet, in L’Orfeo (1609), representing the dialogue between Orpheus and Apollo in a virtuosic and symbiotic style: the voices entwine in a profusion of melisma in which it is difficult to distinguish which of the two gods is the father and which the son. The technique was further developed in the seventh book of madrigals by that same Monteverdi, a genuine laboratory of modern music. It was therefore quite natural for the Ensemble I Gemelli to produce a recital based on twinned voices, and particularly in this tenor tessiture, which dominated the others in the early seventeenth century. They have chosen to represent the peak of the Baroque era, in a programme that mirrors the tutelary figure of the great Claudio. Here, the Damigella tutta bella is not that of the Scherzi musicali, but a piece by Castelani; Dove ten vai is a direct quotation from L’Orfeo, but in a duet version by Turini, while Gregori’s boisterous chaconne is an obvious reference to Zefiro torna. © Gemelli Factory
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Un camino de Santiago (Un chemin de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle)

Arianna Savall

Classical - Released April 14, 2011 | Ricercar

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Modern travelers who make their pilgrimages to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, think of the origins of the practice as medieval. But in fact the pilgrimage has been an unbroken tradition ever since the legend grew (even the Catholic Encyclopedia admits that there are factual problems with it) that the remains of St. James were buried there. This release from soprano and harpist Arianna Savall with the Belgian historical-instrument group La Fenice is illustrated handsomely with a map of the roads leading from various parts of France to Compostela. It's quite detailed, almost a Rand McNally road map of its time, and this in the year 1648, the year the Thirty Years' War ended. Director Jean Tubéry, who also plays the flutes in the wind-heavy arrangements, points out that he's not trying to create a historical reconstruction of music that French pilgrims of 1648 would have heard; some of it is chronologically or geographically wrong. The association is looser, with a program of music somehow connected with St. James or with stops along the way (the Rhône region, Languedoc and Gascony, Aragon and Castile, and finally the gates of Santiago). Many of the sections are introduced by church bells, but both sacred and secular pieces are included, with a few instrumental dances and plenty of the percussion that's still missing from a great many albums of music of this period. The program's place on the continuum running from historical to speculative is a bit slippery, and there's no real indication of why some of the music was included. But Savall is in fine voice; much of the music, especially the pieces in the French and Spanish regional languages, is both unfamiliar and attractive; and the sense of a musical journey comes through. Recommended, especially for listeners making any version of the France-to-Spain pilgrimage.© TiVo
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Sculpting the Fabric

La Vaghezza

Classical - Released March 26, 2021 | Ambronay Éditions

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Inspiration, energy and freedom compose the alluring menu of La Vaghezza's very first opus. The five instrumentalists of the young Italian ensemble, recent winners of the EEEMERGING + scheme, sculpt one by one these magnificent pieces of 17th century Italy, like jewels to be (re)discovered. © Ambronay Editions
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La bellezza: The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music

Musica Alchemica

Classical - Released March 20, 2020 | Pan Classics

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The 17th century was marked on the one hand by war, infirmity and devastation, but at the same time by great innovations in research and science. In music, which until then had been characterized by structure and order, new ideals such as virtuosity and emotionality developed and created an antipole to the problems of the time. The new view of "Beauty - Belezza" places Lina Tur Bonet at the centre of her very personal programme, which brings together what she considers to be the most beautiful and stirring violin works of the period, presented in her own virtuoso and highly emotional style of playing. © Pan Classics
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Misa Criolla

Musica Temprana

Classical - Released August 1, 2014 | Cobra Records

Ciaconna

Capella de la Torre

Classical - Released October 16, 2015 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Busca Una Mujer

Luis Miguel

Pop - Released November 25, 1988 | WEA Latina

The second album released by Luis Miguel after signing with Warner Music (and his eleventh overall), Busca una Mujer found the teen star incorporating smooth, almost jazzy sounds into his brand of Latin pop. The album was released in 1988, and featured the smash hit single "La Incondicional."© Gregory Heaney /TiVo
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Maelo Ruiz… The Romantic Salsa Idol

Maelo Ruiz

Salsa - Released April 24, 2012 | Codiscos

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Lullabies

Abigail Lapell

Folk/Americana - Released November 17, 2023 | Outside Music

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All of My Love

Senora May

Alternative & Indie - Released February 14, 2021 | Senora May LLC

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Besame Mucho

Orquestra Românticos de Cuba

World - Released April 11, 2013 | Musidisc

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Universal Masters

Demis Roussos

Pop - Released January 1, 1999 | EMI

The Universal Master Collection is a 1999 greatest hits compilation by the Greek-Egyptian vocalist Demis Roussos. Its 17 tracks contains the original versions of his best known songs of the period. That said, it should be noted that the version of "Senora (I Need yYou)" is not the single Spanish language version, but an English rendition recorded later. In addition, this set should not be confused with the 2006 album of the same name. While the pair have songs in common, there are key content differences.© TiVo
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Je trouve pas le sommeil

Jul

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released December 1, 2014 | Liga One Industry

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Esencial Rocio Jurado

Rocio Jurado

Pop - Released May 20, 2016 | Legacy Recordings

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Planet Pit

Pitbull

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 17, 2011 | Mr.305 - Polo Grounds Music - J Records