Video
La roca fria del calvari. Zarzuela. Serrano: La Dolorosa. Operalia 2008, Canada.
Audio
Excerpts from Joel's recital at Wigmore Hall, selected arias from Donizetti's "Il Duca d'Alba" and "L'elisir d'amore"
Two Puerto Rican Cantatas
by Ernesto Cordero
Sinfonieta Puertorriquena
Guillermo Figueroa, Maximiano Valdés, conductors
Welmo Romero, Joel Prieto, Ricardo Lugo
Released: July 10, 2015
Composer and guitarist Ernesto Cordero (born in 1946 in New York and raised in Puerto Rico) has composed a large rich catalogue distinguished by its Caribbean flavor. To date, there are more than fifty recordings of Corderos works. Two Puerto Rican Cantatas features a number of talented, prominent as well as up-and-coming Puerto Rican musicians, including rapper Welmo Romero, guitarist Carlos Rodríguez Quirós, tenor Joel Prieto and bass Ricardo L Lugo. Commissioned by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture as part of the celebration of its 50th anniversary, Estampas criollas (2005) received its successful premiere at that time.
