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27. PUNTOS NAVEGANTES: TWO PIECES FOR EARLY BAROQUE QUARTET (1998-99) ca. 9’

For recorder, baroque violin, viola da gamba and theorbo

Music based on early European music forms still found in the Venezuelan islands

Punto del Tirano
Canarios de Indias

Commissioned by the Palladian Ensemble of London

 

 

23. ZARPA EL FESTIVARPA (1997) ca. 17’

For nine chromatic harps, two diatonic Venezuelan folk harps, celesta, marimba, percussion, bass and cuatro (Venezuelan guitar)

 

Commissioned for the 1998 Third Latin-American Harp Convention
Premiered by the International Harp Orchestra Auditorio de la Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas in 1998,
conducted by Alfredo Rugeles

 

 

17. THREE PIECES FOR FLUTE AND GUITAR (TRIPTICO) (1994-95) ca. 10’

Bossanovals

: Recuerdos de Venosa
Kumbiologia

 

Luis Julio Toro, flute / Rubén Riera, guitar

Premiered at the Contemporary Music Festival in Caracas in October 1995 by Luis Julio Toro, flute and Rubén Riera, guitar

 

 

4. EL MONOCORDIO DE LATA (1990-97) ca. 9’

For flute, oboe, violin, cello and cuatro (Venezuelan guitar)

 

 

3. QUINTETO DE LA CULEBRA (1988) ca. 5’

For flute, oboe, violin, cello and cuatro (Venezuelan guitar)

: Pajarillo de la culebra
: Bambuco cruzado

Nicolás Real, flute / Anette León, harp / Paul Desenne, cello

Premiered at Teatro Teresa Carreño in Caracas in 1990 by the Paul Desenne Ensemble; US premiere at the Caramoor International Music Festival in New York in 2008 with Paquito d’Rivera

 

 

2. BOTELLA AL GUAIRE (1985-86) ca. 14’

For flute, English horn, violin, cello and cuatro (Venezuelan guitar)

: Guasa del 5 y 6
: Canción de cuna de las montañas de Caracas

: El fulchola


Nicolás Real, flute / Anette León, harp / Paul Desenne, cello

Premiered at Teatro Teresa Carreño in Caracas in June 1990 by the Paul Desenne Ensemble

 

 

1. QUINTETO DEL PAJARO (1981-83) ca. 17'

For flute, oboe/English horn, violin, cello and cuatro (Venezuelan guitar)

: Program Notes

: Seis por derecho

: Guasa del borrachito
: Alba / vals
: Periquera

Nicolás Real, flute / Andrés Eloy Medina, oboe and English horn / David Moreira, violin / Paul Desenne, cello /
Aquiles Báez, cuatro (Recorded in 1990)

Premiered in Paris, December 1983 by the Paul Desenne Ensemble; US premiere at Weill Recital Hall, New York in December 1994 with Paul Desenne and members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, organized by the American Composers Orchestra