Ponce
Alvaro Cendoya
A fundamental characteristic of Manuel Ponce's music is the variety of styles and techniques he employed throughout his entire career. The expressive Romanza de amor is a sublime example of his romantic period, while his enormous contribution to Mexican nationalist music is represented in the folk music found in Rapsodia mexicana I and II. Moods of melancholy and nostalgia are clearly present in the Mazurka's, as well as in more modernistic works such as the Intermezzo (nr. 3). This is the fourth installment in Álvaro Cendoya's acclaimed series of Ponce's complete piano works.
