Venezuela
Kate Molleson journeys through the Christmas season across Latin America. Today, rollerskating and folk revivals in Venezuela.
Kate Molleson journeys through the Christmas season in Latin America, introducing the composers who shaped local festivities across centuries and longitudes. From cathedrals to countryside to the deep heat of megacities, we revel in music for worship, friendship, family and fiestas.
Today, in Venezuela, we hear about Vicente Emilio Sojo, the man who saved folk carols from extinction, the 19th-century “valkyrie of the piano” Teresa Carreño, and about the nation’s preferred mode of festive transport: rollerskates.
Trad: Tun Tun
Nancy Ramos
Trad: Niño Lindo
Schola Cantorum de Venezuela
Alberto Grau, conductor
Isabel Palacios, soloist
Vicente Emilio Sojo: Five Pieces from Venezuela
John Williams, guitar
Trad: Corre caballito; La mula
Serenata Guayanesa
Aldemaro Romero: Fuga con Pajarillo (from Suite for Strings)
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Teresa Carreño: Nocturne: Souvenir de mon pays
Alexandra Oehler, piano
Teresa Carreño: Vals gayo
Clara Rodriguez, piano
Evencio Castellanos: Avilena Suite (excerpt)
Venezuela Symphony Orchestra
Jan Wagner, conductor
Produced by Amelia Parker for BBC Audio Wales and West
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Nancy Ramos
Tun Tun
Performer: Nancy Ramos.- PROMUS.
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Traditional Venezuelan
Niño Lindo
Performer: Isabel Palacios. Choir: Schola Cantorum de Venezuela. Director: Alberto Grau.- Fundación Schola Cantorum de Venezuela.
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Vicente Emilio Sojo
Five Pieces from Venezuela
Performer: John Williams.- SONY.
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Traditional Venezuelan
Corre caballito
Ensemble: Serenata Guayanesa.- El Palacio de la Musica.
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Traditional Venezuelan
La mula
Ensemble: Serenata Guayanesa.- El Palacio de la Musica.
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Aldemaro Romero
Suite for strings (Fuga con Pajarillo)
Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- DG-477 9154.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 5.
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Teresa Carreño
Souvenirs de mons pays, Op 10
Performer: Alexandra Oehler.- GRAND PIANO : GP660.
- GRAND PIANO.
- 1.
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Teresa Carreño
Vals Gayo
Performer: Clara Rodriguez.- NIMBUS : NI6103.
- NIMBUS.
- 13.
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Evencio Castellanos
Avilena Suite (4th mvt, Amanecer de Navidad; 5th mvt, Navidad)
Orchestra: Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela. Conductor: Jan Wagner.- NAXOS : 8.572681.
- NAXOS.
- 6.
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- Tue 10 Dec 202416:00BBC Radio 3
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