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The Venezuelan composer, Antonio Estévez, wrote Cantata Criolla in 1954, his best known work. It is based on a legendary Venezuelan poem by Alberto Arevalo Torrealba, which recounts a singing competition between Florentino, a peasant, and the Devil. Estévez made it clear that his adaptation of the myth of Faust focused, above all, on a spiritual dispute. It has become one of the most important pieces of Latin American music, and is tonight directed by Giancarlo Guerrero, a conductor of great vitality and enormous vigour.

Coro Gulbenkian
Orquestra Gulbenkian
Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor
Idwer Álvarez Tenor
Juantomás Martínez Yépez Baritone

Dietrich Buxtehude
Chaconne in E minor, BuxWV 160 (orchestrated by Carlos Chavez)

Claude Debussy
Ibéria

Antonio Estévez
Cantata Criolla