WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Stefan Asbury - Ginastera: Popol Vuh (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 202 MB | 49:37
Genre: Classical | Label: Neos
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 202 MB | 49:37
Genre: Classical | Label: Neos
Alberto Ginastera left his massive orchestral piece Popol Vuh, which had been commissioned by Eugene Ormandy, unfinished at his death in 1983, and it was only after it was discovered by pianist Barbara Nissman that it had its premiere in 1989, with Leonard Slatkin and Saint Louis Symphony. A musical reimagining of Mayan creation mythology, it's a monumental piece that viscerally evokes a primitive world using both folk elements and sophisticated modernist techniques. The composer wrote that he was aiming for a "reconstitution of the transcendental aspect of the ancient pre-Columbian world," and the piece is fully successful at capturing that vision with music that is powerfully primal, strange, and darkly beautiful.