JULIÁN CARRILLO (1875-1965): Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 7, Overture and Incidental Music from the Opera Matilde, March Nupcial No. 2, A Isabel: Schottisch (orch. Uriel Luna Herrera).

Description: Although this Mexican composer came to be remembered as a pioneer in the science of acoustics, the music he wrote in the first part of his career has a late-Romantic opulence and spaciousness that was very much of its age. Here his powerful and dignified Second Symphony, 47 minutes in length, which sits somewhere between Bruckner, Wagner and Rachmaninov, is joined by two early pieces d’occasion and excerpts from his grand historical opera of 1910, Matilde, or Mexico in 1810, which marked the centenary of the Mexican War of Independence. Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí; José Miramontes Zapata.