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Caption: Luxembourgian pianist Miguel Baselga
Hear famous Spanish and Mexican composers and their not so famous works. With pianist Miguel Baselga, The State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and B...

Bought by KVNO, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio), WXXI Rochester, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:26
  • Purchases: 40
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No discussion of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema would be complete without talking about composer Silvestre Revueltas. We’ll hear selections from...

Bought by KMUN, KUCO, WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
Caption: Alberto Ginastera with pianist Barabara Nissman
Works by Alberto Ginastera, the self-described “man of Latin America” and one of South America’s most important and innovative composers of the twe...

Bought by KMUN, KUCO, WRTI, KSJE, KVNO and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 43
Caption: Composer and Conductor Tania León
Music by some of Cuba’s best-known and best-loved composers, all born in Havana.

Bought by KUER, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPIP-LP, KMUN, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 13
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From Cuba’s Joaquín Nin and Leo Brouwer to Argentina’s Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov to Uruguay’s Alfonso Broqua, music by Latin American com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, KSJE, WCQS, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
Caption: Composer José Luis Greco, Credit: Sandra Gallardo
This week’s program comprises two works from opposite ends of the 20th century: the complete music to the 1919 ballet El Sombrero de tres picos (Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 50
Caption: Ara Malikian
An array of some of the great Spanish works written for violin in the second half of the nineteenth century. Works by Sarasate, Monasterio, and Fer...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KSJE, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 50
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Not to be confused with the popular operettas and lyric operas popular in Spain from the 1850s through the mid-20th century, the zarzuelas on this ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSJE and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 47

  • Added: Jul 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 27
Caption: Guitarist and Composer Fernando Sor
In the 19th century, the guitar was still thought of as something heard at village fairs, an easy to strum instrument, meant for nothing more than ...

Bought by KUER, KMUN, WCQS, WRTI, KVNO and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 47
Caption: Composer Manuel María Ponce
On this edition of "The Spanish Hour," Mexico’s finest artists are among those heard in this celebration of the genius of Mexico’s Manuel Ponce. En...

Bought by WCQS, WRTI, KVNO, WRGY, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 46
Caption: Jorge Morel
This week, we focus on Argentine guitarist and composer Jorge Morel, with recordings of his works performed by David Starobin, David Russell, Hilar...

Bought by WCQS, KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 30
Caption: Argentine mezzo Bernarda Fink
The tango may be Argentina's best-known musical export, but it's far from the only musical expression to be discovered. On this edition of The Span...

Bought by WCQS, WRTI, KMUN, KVNO, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 48
Caption: Master mason Victor Ayala, Credit: CharlesMcGuigan
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
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Mexico’s passionate soccer fans and colorful fiestas are in full gear for the World Cup. Lilia Fuquen reports that perhaps the strongest pillar of...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Defensor's newest recruits? , Credit: Ben Weisz 2013
For its 3 million inhabitants, Uruguay really punches above its weight in footballing terms. How does it achieve such success in international socc...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
Caption: Host, Daniel Hernandez
One hour special, taking listeners to the Mexico they don't know, untold stories rich in sound, place and humanity, with host Daniel Hernandez. Th...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGOU, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 36
Caption: Javier Camara Joserra, Blanca Suarez, Miguel Angel Sylvestre , Credit: Andrea Chase
Javier Camara Joserra, Miguel Angel Silvestre, and Blanca Suarez talk singing on the set, the irony of place names, and being schooled by Almodovar.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 18:37
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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KENW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 3