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Ginastera: Orchestral Works 1 / Juanjo Mena, BBC Philharmonic

Ginastera / Osterc / Bbc Philharmonic Orchestra Release Date: 01/29/2016
Label: Chandos Catalog #: 10884
Composer:  Alberto Ginastera Performer:  Lucas Somoza Osterc Conductor:  Juanjo Mena Orchestra/Ensemble:  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Number of Discs: 1

Impressive in our ongoing, very successful Spanish music series, the BBC Philharmonic and its chief conductor, Juanjo Mena, also explores the works of the Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera in three orchestral volumes. Not only acknowledged as a leading South-American composer of his day, Ginastera is also seen as one of the heroes of Latin-American music in general, whose enduring source of inspiration was Argentina itself: its pre-Columbian legacy on the one hand and the vast landscapes of the pampas on the other. other. Read less