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This program features beautiful Romantic music from Latin America. Often overlooked, this period of music featured a wide range of great composers....
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, has inspired music in the Latin America culture throughout history. Often confused with Halloween in Ameri...
- Added: Oct 24, 2023
- Length: 58:30
For the last 100 years, Brazil has been a musical powerhouse, not just for popular music, like the famous samba and bossa nova, but also for its cl...
- Added: Oct 18, 2023
- Length: 58:30
If you think Impressionism was only a French style of music, wait until you listen to Portuguese composer António Fragoso! He was a favorite of Deb...
- Added: Oct 11, 2023
- Length: 58:30
This week we will hear Camargo Guarnieri’s delightful and whimsical Estudio para piccolo, Radames Gnatally Sonatina for cello and Two Guitars as we...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Fresh music by two amazing and delightful living composers full of imagination and luxurious sounds: the Brazilian Liduino Pitombeira and the Mexic...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 58:30
On this week's episode of The Rhythm Atlas, host Denis McGilvray celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. You’ll hear vintage recordings from the 1930s ...
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- Added: Sep 26, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
We are constantly getting fresh recordings of Latin American music from all over the world. On this program we will share some of the most interest...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Composer Andrés Gaos was born in Galicia, Spain, in 1874, where he studied and reached an early notoriety. At the age of 20, he migrated to his fam...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 58:30
The WFMT Radio Network Opera Series returns with productions from all over the world, following the end of the Metropolitan Opera season. This week...
- Added: Sep 06, 2023
- Length: 02:30:09
Latin America has long history of “concert” music that started in the 16th century. However, it is possible to say that the 20th has been THE centu...
- Added: Sep 03, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Breno Blauth (1931-1993) is one of the Brazilian composers that deserves exposure and recognition in accordance with their brilliancy. This student...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 58:30
As the largest Spanish speaking country in the world, Mexico is also a powerhouse of classical music, with several first-rate composers and perform...
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 58:30
The WFMT Radio Network Opera Series returns with productions from all over the world, following the end of the Metropolitan Opera season. This week...
- Added: Aug 22, 2023
- Length: 03:11:51
Spanish composers seem to have a strong predilection for the visual arts. This is not surprising for a country that gave us Diego Velázquez, Goya, ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Together with Heitor Villa-Lobos, Manuel Ponce and Leo Brouwer, Paraguayan composer Agustin Barrios is one of the most important 20th century guita...
- Added: Aug 09, 2023
- Length: 58:30
From the treasure trove of Latin American chamber music, Fiesta’s host Elbio Barilari will present music from Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. With w...
- Added: Aug 03, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Fiesta presents sonatas for the viola, the cello and the clarinet by Brazilian composer Brenno Blauth and Argentine composers Constantino Gaito and...
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Think that you are attending a symphonic concert in which instead of hearing one of the so-called “standard concert repertoire,” the orchestra star...
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 58:30
An important part of any orchestra, the woodwinds section is heavily featured in Latin American music. Host Elbio Barilari shares some of his favo...
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Latin American duets for a variety of instrumental combinations including flute and piano, violin and piano, and oboe and guitar. We will hear work...
- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Brazil and Cuba are two of the powerhouses of Latin American music, in part due to the strong African roots of their music. Fiesta presents a selec...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Antonio Estévez was a Venezuelan composer and conductor. He is the author of the “Cantata Criolla”, the most famous work of the nationalistic Venez...
- Added: Jun 20, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Many of the most formidable pieces of the last hundred years have been dedicated to the ballet or modern dance. Latin American music is not the exc...
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Everybody considers Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo one of greatest composers of the 20th century. However, few of his pieces are well known to wi...
- Added: Jun 07, 2023
- Length: 58:30
