Orquesta Sinf�nica Nacional De Cuba Enrique P�rez Mesa, Cond - Cuban Symphonic Music: Various Composers

Although Buena Vista Social Club from the famous film by Wim Wenders may be more famous, Cuban music holds many other treasures in store. The Orquesta Sinf�nica Nacional de Cuba, performing under its principal conductor Enrique P�rez Mesa, now for the first time on MDG surveys the incredible variety of the Cuban music tradition.Rhythm is omnipresent. It is not without reason that Alejandro Garc�a Caturla's Tres Danzas Cubanas open the program. The three dances - Danza del Tambor, Motivos de Danza, Danza Iucum' - introduce us to the complex rhythms of Cuban music with incomparable charm. Here the musicians of the Orquesta Sinf�nica Nacional de Cuba are very much in their element, and Caturla's refined art of instrumentation schooled with Nadia Boulanger comes with a special guarantee: even in a full symphonic instrumentation audiences will sway to the beat of these vibrant dances.