Various Composers - Inca Trail Connections (Miguel Harth-Bedoya)

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1. Alejandro Tobar - Kalamary
2. Alfonso Leng - Preludio No. 1
3. Alberto Williams - Primera obertura de concierto, Op. 15
4. José Carlos Campos - Danza rústica
5. Santos Cifuentes - Scherzo sobre aires tropicales
6. Celso Garrido-Lecca - Danzas populares andinas: No. 1, Alegre
7. Celso Garrido-Lecca - Danzas populares andinas: No. 2, Lento
8. Celso Garrido-Lecca - Danzas populares andinas: No. 3, Rítmico
9. Celso Garrido-Lecca - Danzas populares andinas: No. 4, Andante
10. Celso Garrido-Lecca - Danzas populares andinas: No. 5, Alegre
11. Enrique Soro - Danza fantástica
12. Francisco Pulgar Vidal - Cascay

Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

Date: 2021

Label: Naxos

https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.574266

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Review

The Caminos del Inca, the Inca Trail, form a road network that crosses South America, connecting countries and peoples. Accordingly, this CD contains pieces by Peruvian, Chilean, Colombian and Argentine composers.  The music we get to hear has its roots in Native American music and in European romantic culture. The often dance-like, sometimes slightly archaic compositions are pleasing, even though the music is by no means containing only hot rhythms, but also those melancholic-sensual melodies that are often found in the music of Latin American composers. The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, led by Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, plays at a high level and with the right sense for colors and dynamics. They bring out the brilliant melodicism, powerful rhythms and ardent passion of this music. The CD is worth a few nuggets of Inca gold.

-- Remy Franck, Pizzicato

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Miguel Harth-Bedoya (born 1968 in Lima) is a Peruvian conductor. He studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juilliard School in New York. Among his teachers are Otto-Werner Mueller, Gustav Meier and Seiji Ozawa. He was music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (2000-20), music director of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (2000-05), and chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (2013-20). He is currently Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha, as well as Distinguished Guest Professor of Conducting at Texas Christian University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Harth-Bedoya

https://www.miguelharth-bedoya.com/

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