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.

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L’arbore di Diana – DVD

V. Martin y Soler
Ofelia Sala, Dmitry Korchak, Marina Comparato, Joel Pietro, Christian Senn, Silvia Vasquez, Sandra Ferrandez, Cristina Faus
Conductor: Ruben Dubrovsky, direction: Daniel Slater
Ensemble: Orchestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Released: 2010
Recorded at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia de Valencia, February 2010

Live recording

Estampas criollas

Creole Portraits
Ernesto Cordero

1. Fantasía para cuerdas
2. Canción de cuna
Texto tradicional
3. Guanina
Texto de Ernesto Cordero
basado en la leyenda de Cayetano Coll y Toste
Joel Prieto, tenor
4. Voz del güiro
Poesía: Andrés Castro Ríos (1942-2006)
5. La hija del viejo Pancho
Poesía: Luis Lloréns Torres (1876-1944)
Welmo Romero, rapero
6. Nácete aquí mi niño
de Tres cantos caribeños
Poesía: Nimia Vicéns (1914-1998)
Grabado en 2006

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