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| ARTIST: | Carlos Chavez, Eduardo Mata, Panamerican Chamber Players, Tambuco |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Dorian Recordings |
| TYPE: | 20th/21st Century Orchestral Work with Descriptive Title, Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Composers, Orchestral, Percussion Chamber Music, Quartet for Mixed Instruments without Keyboard |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Xochipilli, An imagined Aztec Music, Suite For Double Quartet: Prelude, Suite For Double Quartet: Interlude, Suite For Double Quartet: Enchantment, Suite For Double Quartet: Saraband, Suite For Double Quartet: Pean, Suite For Double Quartet: Postlude, Tambuco, Energia, Toccata For Percussion Instruments: I Allegro, Toccata For Percussion Instruments: II Largo, Toccata For Percussion Instruments: III Allegro un poco |
| UPC: | 053479021526 |
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Customer Reviews of Carlos Chavez: Chamber Works
A good program I would disagree that the program is too varied. This is a bit like an hour-long radio program devoted to the chamber music of Chavez; you wouldn't want it to all be the same. I atually like having the Suite juxtaposed in this way against the other works that are admittedly different in character. The opening work is indeed an "imagined" music and a comparison with anything might seem jarring. The percussion is well recorded, though much of it is delicate rather than powerful. I had thought that Eduardo Mata was a student of Chavez at one time, but can't find any evidence of that after a brief Web search. But this was one of Mata's valedictory albums, and it does make one miss him. Recommended for fans of Latin-American music, or devotees of percussion that can tolerate the other instrumental combinations here.
Good exploration of Chavez' chamber works
This is a consistently satisfying CD, and a good introduction to the music of Chavez. If you know Chavez only through his symphonies, then this will prove a worthy exploration indeed.
It also serves a yet another reminder, if indeed we need one, of the great loss the music world has suffered in the premature death of Eduarto Mata.
Like the previous reviewer, my only quibble with this CD is the arrangement of pieces. To place the Suite for Double Quartet right smack dab in the middle of a collection of works that are overwhelmingly percussive in nature simply makes no sense. When I play this CD, occasionally I will simply program the player to move past the Suite, so as to maintain a certain continuity. Perhaps it would have worked better to put the Suite at the end of the CD. How you program your concerts can be just as important as how the pieces are played.
Good yet divergent pieces
Being an ardent fan of Chavez' music I must first say that this is a great CD. I have no particular complaints regarding either the works or the performances. My only concern, and thus the reason for four stars instead of five, is the lack of commonality between the selections in the program. I have yet to understand why the ethereal "Suite for Double Quartet"(the best of the CD by the way) was included with the highly percussive and, aside from "Xochiplli", somewhat serialistic works that compose the remainder of the program. While all the works have their merits, the lack of any logic in their inclusion on this disc is somewhat annoying. Yet for true Chavez fans this a must have all the same.