Homenaje a Octavio Paz de Daniel Catán

Obras:

• La Hija de Rappacciini
• Mariposa Obsidiana

Extracto del la grabación

Solistas:

Encarnación Vázquez
Fernando de la Mora
Jesús Suaste

Directora del Coro: Erika Kubacsek

Filarmonia de la Ciudad de México
Director: Eduardo Diazmuñoz

Autor: Daniel Catán  

Fecha de grabación: 10/1991.

There is also a luxuriant, shimmering quality to Rappaccini's Daughter (1988) and Obsidian Butterfly (1984), both based on texts by Octavio Paz... Rappaccini's Daughter boasts a passionate, extended love scene, and...the singing is superb. Obsidian Butterfly is quite a tour de force for the soprano, Encarnacion Vazquez, and might be heard as a kind of study for the final scene of Florencia.

- Andrew Farach-Colton, Gramophone, August 2003

This is beautiful music, performed with apparent love and skill by Diazmunoz, the cast, and the orchestra. Encarnacion Vazquez, in particular, has a full, sensual voice as Beatriz that matches the lush sound and atmosphere of both pieces. This is an attractive disc, hopefully a harbinger of more from Catan on Naxos.

- Robert Kirzinger, Fanfare, March/April 2003

The Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra intones a lush orchestral fabric under the direction of Eduardo Diazmunoz.

- Jerome R. Sehulster, Greenwich Time, December 1, 2002