LibGuides: National Hispanic Heritage Month: Music

Streaming Music

Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of major and small label recordings in streaming audio format, covering all eras and sub-genres of classical music, as well as some jazz, world, and popular music. Below are links to select titles about the lives and experiences of Hispanic authors, characters, and historical figures from these collections.

Naxos Music Library is available for on-campus and remote use by current UA students, faculty, staff, and emeritus.Naxos Music Library is available for on-campus and remote use by current UA students, faculty, staff., and emeritus. You'll need to login with your UAnet ID and password to listen to Naxos Music Library streaming audio.

Ponce, M.M.: Guitar Sonatas (Guzmán) Sonata romántica;Sonata clásica;Guitar Sonata No. 3;Sonata mexicana
Piano Music (Cuban) - Lecuona, E. / / Fariñas, C. /Alén, A. (Piano Cubano) (Y. Cruz Montero) Some of the finest, most stylistically diverse and exciting Cuban piano music can be heard on this recording. Ernesto Lecuona is one of the greatest of all Latin-American composers. Malagueña, from the Suite Andalucía, is considered the most powerful representation of Spain in Cuban music. Drawing on the Cuban genes of son and cancíon, the music of Carlos Fariñas radiates vivid colours, while that of Andrés Alén Rodríguez blends song, habanera and jazz influences - from Naxos
Roberto Sierra - New Music with a Caribbean Accent Roberto Sierra is one of the freshest voices of recent American composition. The diverse folk traditions and popular music of the Caribbean have been in his blood since he was young, and he frequently evokes these cultures, transforming them with great sophistication. The earliest works on this recording, Conjuros and Vestigios rituales, are based upon Afro-Cuban ritual chants of the Lucumí tradition. The virtuosic Cinco bocetos for solo clarinet draws inspiration from Caribbean pop music, Catalonian folk-song, and the sound of the Puerto Rican tree frog. Like Vestigios rituales and Descarga, Sierra’s song-cycle Glosa a la sombra was written for Continuum, which has performed his music frequently and internationally since the early 1980s - from Naxos
Roberto Sierra - Sinfonia No. 3, "La Salsa": I. Tumbao The sonic colour and distinctive rhythms enshrined in these four works provide further evidence of the art of internationally acclaimed Puerto Rican composer, Roberto Sierra. The award-winning Sinfonía No. 3 ‘La Salsa’ owes its inspiration to the music of the Spanish Caribbean and is a salsa of older and newer rhythms, intoxicatingly presented amidst revelry and dance. The instrumentally vivid Borikén is based on the baroque chaconne but with a Latin twist, while El Baile invokes traditional music in a wholly distinctive way. Beyond the Silence of Sorrow is a captivatingly lyrical song cycle - from Naxos