Although the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875–1965) came to be remembered as a pioneer in the science of acoustics, the music he wrote in the first part of his career has a late-Romantic opulence and spaciousness that was very much of its age. Here his powerful and dignified Second Symphony, which sits somewhere between Bruckner, Wagner and Rachmaninov, is joined by two early pièces d’occasion and excerpts from his grand historical opera of 1910, Matilde ó México in 1810, which marked the centenary of the Mexican War of Independence. This album is one of a series of recordings of Mexican composers and performers. Previous releases have included an album of orchestral music by Manuel M. Ponce (TOCC0502) and a first volume of the piano music of the Russian-Swiss composer Paul Juon, played by the Mexican piano Rodolfo Ritter (TOCC0290).