Nuevo

Kronos Quartet (Composer), Severiano Briseno (Composer), Agustin Lara (Composer), Juan Garcia Esquivel (Composer), Traditional (Composer), Alberto Dominguez (Composer), Silvestre Revueltas (Composer), Osvaldo Golijov (Composer), Margarita Lecuona (Composer), Belisario Garcia de/ Elizondo, Jose Jesus (Composer), Ricardo Gallardo (Composer), Ariel Guzik (Performer), Chalino Sanchez (Artist), Cafe Tacuba (Artist), Luanne Warner (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Ariel Guzik
• Composer: Kronos Quartet, Severiano Briseno, Agustin Lara, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Traditional, et al.
• Audio CD (April 9, 2002)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B000063NCZ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,291 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kronos Quartet outdo themselves!, May 20, 2002

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jaime carrera (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nuevo (Audio CD)

Ranging from folkloric to post-modern, "Nuevo" displays Kronos Quartet's pure love of Mexico's wide spectrum of musical history. From jarabes and sones ("El Sinaloense" and "El Llorar") to reinterpretations of work from some of Mexico's most beloved composers (torch song legend Agustin Lara and space age bachelor Esquivel) and collaborations with contemporary mexican artists (punk-folk-ambient pioneers Cafe Tacuba and Plankton Man of hybrid electronica outfit Nortec Collective) this cd has it all. There's even a tribute to mexican comic Roberto Gomez Bolanos' variety show "Chespirito" ("Chavosuite") with the theme music to two of his most popular characters: El Chavo and El Chapulin Colorado. with Mr. Gomez Bolanos himself and his wife Florinda Meza (two of Mexico's most beloved comic actors) chanting the lines from the long-running show. Which proved to me that the Kronos Quartet trully did their homework for this album. An absolute treasure!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Mexican "classical" music, May 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Nuevo (Audio CD)

Describe this is not easy but it is impecceble produced and played, give a nice touch of Mexican folkmusic and has both classical and surrealistic moments.

Perfect listen carefully too AND use as a background music with more or less sober guest :-).

This Kronos Quartet give us a lot of stuff... modern, contemporary classic, moviemusic, older stuff and this more folkmusic style. I had bought at least 100 records so far this year and this one is one of the most innovative.

If you like classic music, folkmusic, humour, style, bittersweet emotions, viola, violin, cello, marimbas, excellent sound and production, good performers this is for you. Classical purists should go somewhere else.

Highly recommended

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crowd Pleasing Contemporary "String" Music, May 1, 2003

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a1 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nuevo (Audio CD)

This is the Kronos Quartet, but it is NOT the difficult, arty-experimental-edge music that they often do. The reviewer below who said this is a jarring CD was absolutely without a doubt mistaken about which CD he was reviewing. This is by far the most accesible Kronos CD yet, with every track sweet to the ears. It is a fanciful record of music from and inspired by Mexico. And the composers do a great job of evoking the spirit of Mexico, with traditional rhythms, instruments, harmonies, and so on. Some of these tracks toy with the stereotypical elements of mariachi or chickenscratch. Most of the songs are built on festive melodies, but a few tracks are more abstract and free form, one of which is a beautiful pastiche of recordings from around a Mexican cafe. I put "String" in quotes because there is never a point where it sounds like just a bare string quartet; their instruments are always amplified, sometimes pedal distorted, and often joined by other instrumentalists, vocalists, and samples. You can tell they just had a ton of fun making this recording - there's a buoyant feeling throughout. This is a deligtful album with broad appeal and easily one of the best of 2002.