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Following the acclaimed, Grammy-nominated Americascapes, the Basque National Orchestra and its music director Robert Treviño present a second album dedicated to American repertoire. American Opus features three 20th century compositions. George Walker’s first orchestral work, the folk and gospel-tinged Address for Orchestra (1959), is one that the composer hoped Robert Treviño would one day record. George Crumb’s enigmatic A Haunted Landscape (1984) is a work scored for 20 percussion instruments alongside the symphony orchestra written for the New York Philharmonic. (not ingested into Wide Orbit). Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas lived large parts of his life in the United States. The last work he wrote was written for a ballet described by Treviño as “a high-octane mixture of so many elements that were pulsing through the Americas – Mariachi, Mexican folk tunes, Native American folk, jazz, television music, cartoons, polytonalism, atonalism, serialism, experimentation, all in this remarkably vivid, technicolor manner.”

Tracklist

Walker: “Address for Orchestra”
Revueltas: “La Coronela (The Lady Colonel)”

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