Sounds of Latin America! - Orquesta sinfonica simon bolivar Rituales Amerindios” by Esteban Benzecry estebanbenzecry/ Esteban Benzecry uses the colours in his giant orchestra to depict nature, water, evocations of forests, thunder, as well as ritualistic dances. The opening movement is dedicated to Ehecati, the Aztec god of the wind. We hear a fanfare-type flourish which will turn up again in different guises in the other two movements. Chaac, the Mayan water god, inspires the second slow movement of the work, full of liquid percussion, including slides upwards on timpani, low marimba sounds and the miraculous noise of the rain-stick. Things get moving again in the last movement, with an evocation of the Inca thunder God Illapa: a storm gathers, rushing up through the orchestra which, this being Latin music, inevitably transforms itself into a dance. (The Guadian)
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:18:52 +0000
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