With this first Toccata Next album of Mexican music for harp, the American harpist Janet Paulus pays tribute to her adoptive country and to three composer friends, each with a concertante work and music for solo harp – several of them recently written for her. The predominant style is gently Neo-Romantic, occasionally animated with echoes of Mexican folk-music.
Works:
•Angulo, E: Concerto for Harp and Strings, Op. 15
•Angulo, E: Prelude for Harp: …lo que yo nunca juzgué que fuera a tus manos
•Rodríguez, A: Amanecer
•Rodríguez, A: Morning Rain
•Rodríguez, A: Pensando en ti
•Rodríguez, A: Reencuentro
•Rodríguez, A: Saudade
•Torres-Sáenz: Alice Dreams
•Torres-Sáenz: Mil y una grullas