Ferrero: La Nueva Espana

Lorenzo Ferrero (Composer), Takuo Yuasa (Conductor), National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
• Conductor: Takuo Yuasa
• Composer: Lorenzo Ferrero
• Audio CD (February 20, 2001)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B000053W4K
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #557,698 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cinematic style music - pleasant but no masterpiece, March 14, 2006

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Gerard Lynch "paddingtonw2bear" (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ferrero: La Nueva Espana (Audio CD)

Ferrero tries to paint a picture of the Spanish conquest of Aztec Mexico with pleasant, if unadventurous, music very much in the cinematic style. Both the tragedy and the adventure are conveyed clearly by solid playing from the Ukraine National. There's nothing earth shattering in the music, but it is pleasant.

It's good to see solidly tonal neo-romanticism gaining more and more ground, however, and if it heralds a return to themed music and the tone poem, I'm all for it.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best works of the 1990's, January 8, 2002

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"conquistador69" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ferrero: La Nueva Espana (Audio CD)

Wonderful music, great orchestra,
and a fine conductor, what more could
you ask for? In my opinion the very best...

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat disappointing, March 4, 2001

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Don Clark (St Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ferrero: La Nueva Espana (Audio CD)

I have listened to this work several times now and each time I leave unfulfilled. I am missing the drama and pathos needed in a work musically portraying "one of the most extraordinary episodes in the history of mankind" and "a work dedicated to the memory of that ancient human tragedy". The episodes and tragedy referred to is the discovery, conquest and complete destruction of the Aztec civilization by Cortes in 1521. The composer talks of the work being "cinematographic" taking on the perspective of a movie camera. The camera is a bit fuzzy and is all too often detatched, focusing on detail and not a big picture. Do not come here expecting the "Ruta de Cortes" movement to be a "Pines of the Appian Way" with blazing trumpets and marching men, or the "Matanza del Templo Mayor" to be a graphic portrait of a massacre. "Ruta" is a more like the music to Korngold's "Robin Hood" or "Captain Blood". "Matanza" is more like a survey of the aftermath and is an interesting idea but too cold and detatched. Well recorded and complete (another recording is available but I believe is not a complete performance). To me there is just too much missing and promise unfulfilled.