"Canción en el Puerto" By Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras (Mexican composer)
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Today we will listen to one of the best-known works in the Mexican repertoire of the viola, widely performed for its beauty and simplicity, although with some interpretive difficulties to achieve a correct execution.
Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras (1927-2012) was born in Tehuacán, Puebla. He studied composition at the National Conservatory of Music with Rodolfo Halffter and Blas Galindo (Mexico), in 1952 he won a scholarship to study at the Paris Conservatory, where he studied composition with Jean Rivier and musical analysis with Oliver Messiaen. By 1960, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation and, he moved to New York where he studied at Julliard. An important moment in his life was when he won second place in the Chopin Competition organized by the UNAM (Mexico), with his work Divertimento, in 1949, the same place that he shared with the piece "Tierra de Temporal", by José Pablo Moncayo who was already a renowned composer.
"Canción en el Puerto" was originally written for cello, with its alternate version for viola. The piece was written by the composer in 1995 as a tribute to the musicologist Yolanda Moreno Rivas. It is composed in sonata form (A, B, A) in F major, before reaching the re-exposition, the viola has a small cadenza descending from the high registers of the instrument to the low string.
The version that we are listening to now is performed by the violist Omar Hernández Hidalgo, from the well-known album "La viola Spiral", which he recorded together with the pianist Mauricio Nader, the CD contains pieces from the Mexican repertoire for viola by composers of the 20th century.
Thank you very much for reading and see you soon!
Luis Ángel Chab Dzul.
References:
https://musicaenmexico.com.mx/musica-mexicana/joaquin-gutierrez-heras/
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