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Balada - Maria Sabina, Dionisio: In Memoriam  | Naxos 8570425

Balada - Maria Sabina, Dionisio: In Memoriam

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570425

Barcode: 0747313042579

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 3rd March 2008

Contents

Artists

Susi Sanchez
Angel Saiz
Fernando Tejedor
Carlos Hipolito
Orchestra and Chorus of the Comunidad de Madrid

Conductor

Jose Ramon Encinar

Works

Balada, Leonardo

Dionisio - In Memoriam
Maria Sabina

Artists

Susi Sanchez
Angel Saiz
Fernando Tejedor
Carlos Hipolito
Orchestra and Chorus of the Comunidad de Madrid

Conductor

Jose Ramon Encinar

About

The Barcelona-born composer Leonardo Balada is credited with pioneering a blending of ethnic music with avant-garde techniques. The symphonic tragedy María Sabina, one of Balada’s best-known works, tells the extraordinary story of Sabina, a Mexican Indian mushroom-cult priestess who meets fierce resistance from her people when endeavouring to open the holy rituals to the outside world.

Some of the text in Balada’s work is based on her incantations, of which the composer has written, “While composing the work, the power of the text was so extraordinary that I felt inspired by it. I recall composing the music even when I was travelling, in airports or hotels”.

The cantata Dionisio: In Memoriam is a homage to Dionisio Ridruejo, a poet and politician from Soria, Spain, on whose ideological, philosophical and descriptive writings the work is based.

Contents:
María Sabina (1969)
Part I: En la serranía de Oaxaca (1)
Part II: Las viejecitas impedidas quieren ahorcar a María Sabina (2)
Part III: Pedimos que el verdugo ahorque a María Sabina (3)

Dionisio: In Memoriam (2001)
Part I: Hambre, Gloria, Vida (4)
Part II: Guerra, guerra, la guerra (5)

- Susi Sánchez, Narrator (María Sabina) (1-3)
- Ángel Sáiz, Narrator (The Town Crier/Constable) (1, 3)
- Fernando Tejedor, Narrator (Executioner) (3)
- Carlos Hipólito, Narrator (4, 5)

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