Night of the Mayas: Music of Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas (Composer), Eduardo Mata (Conductor), David Atherton (Conductor), Herrera de la Fuente (Conductor), Orquestra Sinfonica de Jalapa (Orchestra), New Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra), London Sinfonietta (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Orquestra Sinfonica de Jalapa, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta
• Conductor: Eduardo Mata, David Atherton, Herrera de la Fuente
• Composer: Silvestre Revueltas
• Audio CD (September 13, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003ELK
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #285,569 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca

2. Sensemaya

3. Ocho X Radio

4. Toccata

5. Alcancias: Allegro

6. Alcancias: Andantino

7. Alcancias: Allegro vivo

8. Planos

9. La Noche de los Mayas: I. La noche de los Mayas

10. La Noche de los Mayas: II. La noche de Jaranas

11. La Noche de los Mayas: III. La noche de Yucatan

12. La Noche de los Mayas: IV. La noche de encantamiento

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and eerie, January 28, 2000

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Brian Moore (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night of the Mayas: Music of Silvestre Revueltas (Audio CD)

This was my first real introduction to Revueltas's work, and it's an excellent primer to this composer. Propulsive without being bombastic, challenging without being pretentious, it's remarkable and essential music. The performances on this CD serve the music uniformly well; the Orquesta Sinfónica de Jalapa features a remarkable battery of percussion on "La noche de los Mayas."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wild Stuff!, August 3, 2009

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Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night of the Mayas: Music of Silvestre Revueltas (Audio CD)

We now venture to the hot, energetic music of Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) in this collection that Catalyst has brought together of recordings made by different ensembles at different times. This is wild stuff, sounding something like a cross between Mexican dance music and Prokofiev. Although this is not a disk I find myself returning to often, it is one of those disks that I find myself pulling off the shelf every once in a while when I am in one of those, well, Mexican Prokofiev moods. If one of your obsessions in life is trying to figure out what sort of music Prokofiev would have composed had he been born in Mexico, then Night of the Mayas is the answer to your prayers.