American Opus

Robert Treviño continues his welcome explorations of Americascapes. None of the pieces on this recording are particularly well-known, even to scholars that specialize in music from the United States and Mexico, and so this gathering is valuable in itself. Address for Orchestra was the first work for large ensemble that the late composer George Walker (1922–2018) ever wrote. He drafted the three movements in 1958 and orchestrated them in 1959 but then had to wait until a Belgian performance in 1971 to hear the whole piece. George Crumb (1929–2022) wrote A Haunted Landscape in 1984 for the New York Philharmonic, which presented the premiere under Arthur Weisberg the following year. The music of Silvestre Revueltas –born on the last day of the 1800s (December 31, 1899), dead from alcoholism at the age of 40 – has finally become popular in the past three decades. His brief existence has been scantily documented.

GEORGE WALKER: Address for Orchestra

1. Poco adagio – molto più mosso
2. Molto adagio
3. ​Dramático

GEORGE CRUMB: A Haunted Landscape

SILVESTRE REVUELTAS: La Coronela, Ballet

1. Los privilegiados
2. Los desheredados
3. La pesadilla de Don Ferruco
4. El juicio final