Search - Alfonso de Elias, Alejandro Corona, Higinio Ruvalcaba :: El Retrato de Lupe: Antología de Música para violín y piano de compositiones mexicanos, Vol. 2

A second volume in the series Music for Violin and Piano by Mexican Composers. The album title is after the 1953 piece El retrato de Lupe by Carlos Jiménez Mabarak (1916-1994). The other composers and their works are thoroughly discussed in the accompanying twenty-eight-page booklet of this classic Urtext presentation in deluxe slipcase. Luis Samuel Saloma Alcalá, violinist, conductor, and concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra, belongs to a family of musicians with a long tradition in Mexico. His grandfather was founder of the Saloma Quartet, the first chamber music ensemble in the country. The pianist on this album is Duane Cochran, a native of Detroit, a child prodigy who studied with György Sandor and who performs frequently in Latin America. He is also a noted choreographer, and director of the Aksenti Contemporary Dance Ensemble.