Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Miguel Harth-Bedoya – Inca Trail Connections (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:29 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Caminos del Inca, or Inca Trails, is a road network that traverses South America connecting lands and peoples. The area’s musical traditions are ancient and varied, taking in indigenous sounds as well as European influences, and the composers represented on this album have all been inspired by this musical legacy, the people of their homeland, and the land itself. The interconnections include late-Romanticism, folkloric dances, reinterpretation of popular music, mestizo (“hybrid”) elements, Stravinsky-like primitivism, and music of simplicity and beauty that both captures and celebrates village life.
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Miguel Harth-Bedoya, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra – New South American Discoveries (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:01 minutes | 576 MB | Genre: Classical
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Grammy®-nominated and Emmy Award-winning conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leading the Norwegian Radio Orchestra introduces his fifth album for the prestigious international label, New South American Discoveries. In addition to his positions as music director with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Peruvian-born conductor is also Founder and Artistic Director of Caminos del Inka, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to performing and promoting the music of the Americas.
Harth-Bedoya’s first critically-acclaimed album for Harmonia Mundi highlighted the orchestral music of fellow-Peruvian, and acclaimed composer, Jimmy López. For his latest recording, the conductor celebrates music by eight living composers from five South American countries all born after 1950: Jorge Villavicencio Grossman (Peru); Victor Agudelo (Colombia); Sebastián Vergara (Chile); Diego Luzuriaga (Ecuador); Diego Vega (Colombia); Sebastián Errázuriz (Chile); Agustín Fernández (Bolivia), and Antonio Gervasoni (Peru).
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Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya – Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra – Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:11:40 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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With its use of folk melodies to generate tremendous momentum and dramatic impact, the Concerto for Orchestra (1954) established Witold Lutos?awski (1913-1994) as Poland’s leading composer and an international force in concert music.
Here it is coupled with another showpiece: Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G minor arranged for full orchestra by Arnold Schöenberg (1937).
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