CD 1| Two Romanian dances by Bartók

(From the Csárdás program.)

1. Gázsa band plays the original music which inspired Bartók, followed by the P-CE playing Bartók—Listen. 

2. Gázsa band joins the P-CE for the last of the dance pieces—Listen.

View a review of the performance here.

CD 2| The Plow that Broke the Plains.

1. Prelude

2. Pastorale (Grass)

3. Cattle

4. The Homesteader

5. Warning

6. War and the Tractor

7. Speculation (Blues)

8. Drought

9. Wind and Dust

10. Devastation

CD 3 | The River

1. Prelude

2. First Forest

3. A Big River

4. Cotton Pickers

5. Ruins

6. Logging

7. Coal

8. Floods

9. Requiem

10. Tenancy
11. Finale

CD 4 | Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas Revisited

1. Baile and Son - Homenaje a Garcia Lorca
2. Duelo - Homenaje a Garcia Lorca
3. Sensemayá
4. Caminando

CD 5 | Song of the Earth

1. Traditional Chinese Music
2. Traditional Chinese Music
3. Traditional Chinese Music
4. Meng Haoran and Wang Wei: Poetry
5. Zhou Long: the Farewell
6. Gustav Mahler: Der Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde Delores Ziegler, mezzo-soprano

Revueltas in Context

Coolidge Auditorium,
Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress,
on Friday, March 14, 2008
at 8pm.
>> Part 1

>> Part 2

Encounters: David Taylor