Inca Trail Connections
Norwegian Radio Orchestra Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
ALEJANDRO TOBAR: Kalamary
ALFONSO LENG: Preludio No. 1
ALBERTO WILLIAMS: Primera opertura de concierto
JOSE CARLOS CAMPOS: Danza Rústica*
SANTOS CIFUENTES: Scherzo sobre aires tropicales*
CELSO GARRIDO LECCA: Danzas populares andinas*
ENRIQUE SORO: Danza Fantástica
FRANCISCO PULGAR VIDAL: Cascay*
* World Premiere Recordings
The Caminos del Inca, or Inca Trails, is a road network that traverses South America connecting lands and peoples.The area’s musical traditions are ancient and varied, reflecting indigenous sounds as well as European influences. The composers on this album have all been inspired by this musical legacy, the people of their homeland, and the land itself. The interconnections include late-Romanticism, folkloric dances, reinterpretation of popular music, mestizo elements, Stravinsky-like primitivism, and music of simplicity and beauty.
The majority of these works have never been recorded commercially until now.
Released April 23 by Naxos.
To purchase: https://Naxos.lnk.to/8574266AC
Journeys: Orchestral Music from Five Continents
To be released February 26, 2021
Audun André Sandvik, Cello Norwegian Radio Orchestra Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
Robert Fokkens (b.1975): Uhambo Olunintsi (‘Journeys’) (2002)
Ľubica Čekovská (b.1975): Shadow Scale (2005)
Harry Stafylakis (b. 1982): Brittle Fracture (2013)
Nahla Farouk Mattar (b. 1971): El-Áin (‘The evil eye’) (2005)
Carlos Zamora (b. 1968): Sikuris (1999) (version for chamber orchestra, 2009)
Chris Gendall (b. 1980): Gravitas (2010–11)
Aigerim Seilova (b. 1987): Pendulum. Evaporation (2015)
Chen Zhangyi (b. 1984): of an ethereal symphony (2015)
Miguel del Águila (b. 1957): The Giant Guitar, op. 91 (2006)
The idea behind Journeys is to look at how music, like the poetic concept of peace, can unite the world by bringing together music from every continent into one album. With works inspired by myths and mechanics, cosmic motion and human emotion, originating from Europe and the Americas to Africa, Asia and Australasia, the themes in this collection of world premiere recordings range as widely as their origins.
“Miguel Harth-Bedoya guides his orchestra through powerful and colorful playing, resulting in an effective hour of music.” - Pizzicato
Ginastera Harp Concerto Op. 25
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Sidsel Walstad, harp
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
GINASTERA: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, op. 25
GINASTERA: Variaciones Concertantes
On October 14, 2019, the Norwegian label LAWO Classics releases an album highlighting two masterworks by the Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera (1916–83): his Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, op. 25, and his Variaciones concertantes, op. 23, performed by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK) under its chief conductor, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and featuring its principal harpist, Sidsel Walstad [LWC 1182].
“The Norwegian Radio Orchestra proves itself entirely capable of creating Ginastera’s desired Argentinian moods, skilfully led by Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, whose “heart pounds for South American music and culture”. —Dominy Clements
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Jimmy López Bellido: Symphonic Canvas
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
JIMMY LÓPEZ BELLIDO: Symphony No. 1 - The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda JIMMY LÓPEZ BELLIDO: Bel Canto— A Symphonic Canvas
SYMPHONIC CANVAS, is an exciting showcase of two recent orchestral works by the composer of the critically acclaimed opera Bel Canto, JIMMY LÓPEZ BELLIDO, in their first-ever recordings [MS 1737]: his Cervantes-inspired Symphony no. 1—The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda (2016) and Bel Canto—A Symphonic Canvas (2017), both authoritatively performed by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra under its music director, Grammy®-nominated and Emmy Award-winning, conductor, Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Recorded at Bass Performance Hall on 6-7 April 2018 [5-7] and 11-13 January 2019 [1-4], the album is engineered and produced by the multi Grammy Award-winning producer Brad Michel.
"So much to enjoy in these two broad orchestral works; both are wild flights of symphonic fancy, filled with colour and drama. The For Worth Symphony gleams." 4 Stars.” —BBC Music Magazine
Released on August 23, 2019, MSR Classics
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Brahms & Ligeti: Violin Concertos
Augustin Hadelich, Violin
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
LIGETI: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Winner of the Warner Prize, on this new recording of the concertos by Brahms and Ligeti, the Ligeti Concerto includes new cadenzas written by Thomas Ades especially for Augustin Hadelich – never-before recorded.
Released April 12, 2019
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Sergei Prokofiev: Concertos nos 1,3 & 4
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto no. 1 in D-flat major, op. 10
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto no. 4 for the left hand in B-flat Major, op. 53
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto no. 3 in C Major, op. 26
“…Harth-Bedoya deserves credit here too for finding a tempo that’s just right–not too fast but not at all inhibited–to permit every detail of the solo to register with clarity and naturalness. You’ll hear things that you’ve never heard before, and yet they sound “right”…They are performances to savor.”
—David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday (Prokofiev Piano Concertos 1, 3, & 4, Harmonia Mundi)
Released February 15, 2019
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Pictures at an Exhibition and Cinderella
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (recorded live in February, 2018)
Prokofiev Cinderella, Op. 87 (recorded live in April, 2017)
"Over the last several years at the artistic helm of the FWSO I have identified works that portray the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and its members at their best performance level, and at the same time create an original and attractive CD album. This recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Gorchakov) and Prokofiev’s Cinderella, op. 87 was made during live concerts this winter and last spring at Bass Hall. There is something special about capturing a live performance with an audience, a testimony of a performance in a particular point in time. When we made these recordings, there was a particular excitement in the hall after each of the performances; we all - orchestra and audience -knew that something magical had happened. In listening to the playbacks I could hear that alchemy in the FWSO's spectacular solo playing, and in the totality of the collective orchestral sounds, creating a warm, lush tone, as well as energetic and precise execution." - Miguel Harth-Bedoya
“What does it take to turn a regional American symphony orchestra into a world-class one? To venture an answer would be a fool’s errand, so suffice for us to direct your attention to the live recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition here coupled to a handful of selections from Prokofiev’s 1945 Cinderella, and let you be the judge…. The results are splendidly satisfying and, for this listener, this FWSO release is a keeper.”
—Rafael de Acha, Rafael’s Music Notes
“…The approach is straightforward; it emphasizes weight and drama and commands that you listen...”
—Roger Hecht, American Record Guide
Released June 1, 2018 by FWSO Live
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Variations Over Variations
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet
“…The pieces by Alfred Janson, Jan Erik Mikalsen, Knut Vaage, and Maja Ratkje, performed under the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya, faithfully preserve Nordic themes that so defined the life of the land, while embracing worldly sources steeped into the country for two centuries…”
—Norman Cahn, I Care if You Listen
Released March 10, 2017 by Aurora
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Celso Garrido-Lecca: Orchestral Works
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
GARRIDO-LECCA: Danzas Populares Andinas
GARRIDO-LECCA: Retablos Sinfónicos
GARRIDO-LECCA: Suite Peruana
GARRIDO-LECCA: Laudes
Released December 2, 2016 by Naxos
“Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya pays loving tribute to the music of one of Latin America’s major composers, Celso Garrido-Lecca, a major force in the musical development of both Peru and Chile…You probably couldn’t ask for a more persuasive interpreter than Miguel Harth-Bedoya, who leads both the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Fort Worth Symphony in wholly winning performances of all four pieces…” (10/10)
—David Hurwitz, —ClassicsToday
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New South American Discoveries
The Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Jorge Villavicencio GROSSMAN: Wayra (2011)
Victor AGUDELO: El Sombrerón (2009)
Sebastián VERGARA: Mecánica (2005)
Diego LUZURIAGA: Responsorio (2000)
Diego VEGA: Música Música (2009)
Sebastián ERRÁZURIZ: La Caravana (2003)
Agustín FERNANDEZ: Una música escondida (2004)
Antonio GERVASONI: Icarus (2003)
Released November 18, 2016 by harmonia mundi usa
“While most collections of orchestral music from South America cover the same repertoire (Revueltas's Sensemaya and Moncayo's Huapango being among the most ubiquitous inclusions), Miguel Harth-Bedoya's new disc offers fare that is rare, interesting, and absolutely up to date… No praise can be high enough for conductor Harth-Bedoya's care in balancing the various orchestral strands, while the warmly characterful playing of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra is an asset throughout…”
—Phillip Scott, Fanfare
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Cold Mountain
Santa Fe Opera
Jennifer Higdon, composer
Gene Scheer, librettist
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
** Nominated for a Grammy Award, 2017 - Best Opera Recording**
Released April 8, 2016 by Pentatone Music
“...Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the Santa Fe forces with clarity and forward propulsion—this is music drama that lives...”
—Robert Levine, Classics Today (Cold Mountain)
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Lutoslawski/Brahms
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
LUTOSLAWSKI: Concerto for Orchestra
BRAHMS (orch. Arnold SCHOENBERG): Piano Quartet in G minor, op. 25
Released April 1, 2016 by harmonia mundi usa.
"...shines out with its precision, vigour and clarity of sound...A seriously interesting and worthwhile disc."
—Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian, March 2016
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Sergei Prokofiev
PIANO CONCERTOS 2 & 5
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Released Feb 5, 2016 by harmonia mundi usa.
“This is an auspicious first installment of an apparent projected complete Prokofiev Cycle. The fresh, robust sound of The Fort Worth Symphony orchestra under Miguel Harth-Bedoya, beautifully recorded here, is ravishing throughout…for a heroic reading of singular power, this reading of Kholodenko and Harth-Bedoya can scarcely be beaten…”
—Patrick Rucker, Gramophone
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Grieg/Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
The Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G. minor, Op. 22
Released August 14, 2015 by harmonia mundi usa
“For a truly outstanding recording of the Grieg, turn to Vadym Kholodenko, Miguel Harth Bedoya and the Norweigan Radio Orchestra, with its notably eloquent horn, cello and flute soloists making their presence felt alongside a pianist who allows the big tunes to breathe, knows exactly how to shape each movement and yet injects the urgency of a live performance into the proceedings”.
“Editor’s Choice,”Gramophone
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Jimmy López
Jesús Castro-Balbi, cello
The Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
LÓPEZ: Perú Negro (2012)
LÓPEZ: Synesthésie (2011)
LÓPEZ: Lord of the Air (2012)
LÓPEZ: América Salvaje (2006)
Award-winning composer Jimmy López (born 1978 - Lima, Peru) is considered "one of the most interesting young composers anywhere today" (Chicago Sun-Times). Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in América Salvaje, Synethésie, Perú Negro, and Lord of the Air - a cello concerto featuring Jesús Castro-Balbi. All four orchestral works included here are being commercially released for the first time by Harmonia Mundi.
Released August 14, 2015 by harmonia mundi usa
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Augustin Hadelich: Bartók and Mendelssohn
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No. 2
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto
Released July 10, 2015 by Avie
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Amy Dickson: Island Songs
Amy Dickson, Saxophone
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Ross Edwards' Full Moon Dances is made up of five seamless movements, creating a kaleidoscope of sound featuring fragments of birdsong, plainsong, drones and Indigenous chants from around the world. These sounds are brought together around the central figure of the solo saxophonist, who acts as "Moon Goddess incarnate, source of plant life and protector of the environment." Full Moon Dances was recorded live in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House with Miguel Harth-Bedoya on the podium.
Released May, 2015 by Sony Classical
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SUR
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
ENRIQUE SORO: Tres Aires Chilenos
CELSO GARRIDO-LECCA: Retablos Sinfónicos
ADOLFO MEJÍA: Pequeña Suite
ESTEBAN BENZECRY: Colores de la Cruz del Sur
CLAUDIO REBAGLIATI: Rapsodia Peruana
The recording includes compositions spanning over two hundred years and explores the divergent landscapes of South America - from the coast to the mountains – all watched over by the Southern Cross as portrayed in Argentinean composer Esteban Benzecry’s Colores de la Cruz del Sur. Popular melodies and dance themes are illustrated in Tres Aires Chilenos and Retablos Sinfónicos. In Mejía’s Pequeña Suite and Rebagliati’s Rapsodia Peruana the anniversaries of the founding of Bogotá and the independence of Peru are celebrated.
Recorded live in Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall.
Release Date: November, 2012
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Take Six
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
Hanan Alattar, Soprano
Michael Shih, Violin
Time for Three
JENNIFER HIGDON: Concerto 4-3*
GABRIELA LENA FRANK: Elegía Andina*
KEVIN PUTS: Symphony No 3, Vespertine*
JOHN B HEDGES: Slapdance*
PETER BOYER: Celebration Overture
BEHZAD RANJBARAN: Songs of Eternity*
JENNIFER HIGDON: Loco*
KEVIN PUTS: Violin Concerto*
*World premiere recording
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Nazareno
Marielle & Katia Labèque, pianos
Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
OSVALDO GOLIJOV / GONZALO GRAU: Nazareno
GINASTERA: Estancia, Suite Op. 8a
REVUELTAS: La noche de los mayas
Released 2011 by Universal Music/Deutsche Grammophon, limited edition recording
Traditions and Transformations
Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
**Nominated for two Grammy Awards**
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Silk Road Ensemble
Yo-Yo Ma/Wu Man
Miguel Harth-Bedoya/Alan Gilbert, conductors
Released November 17, 2009 by CSO Resound
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New Impossibilities
Yo Yo Ma, cello
Silk Road Ensemble
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
New Impossibilities captures an extraordinary yearlong Silk Road Chicago celebration. Partnering with the City of Chicago and its leading arts and cultural organizations, in performances, exhibitions, and workshops, the Silk Road Project traced the weave of tradition and innovation through Chicago. New Impossibilities was recorded during a series of sold-out concerts at historic Orchestra Hall.
Released January 14, 2014 by Sony Classical
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INTI: Three Centuries of Peruvian Music
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
ENRIQUE ITURRIAGA: Sinfonía “Junín y Ayacucho: 1824”
BALTASAR MARTÍNEZ Y COMPAÑON: Colección de Música Virreinal*
GABRIELA FRANK: Elegía Andina*
ARMANDO GUEVARA OCHOA: Vilcanota*
JIMMY LÓPEZ: Fiesta!*
ENRIQUE ITURRIAGA: Obertura para una comedia*
*World premiere recording
Released July 25, 2012 by FWSO LIVE
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Alma del Peru
Orquésta Filarmónica de Lima
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Peruvian folk music is the result of a long process of assimilation between ancient native cultures, the Spanish conquerors (since 1535) and the African cultures that arrived in Peru with the slaves during the time of colonialism.
This recording offers a rich variety of Criollo (vals, polka, marinera, tondero) and Andean (huayno, carnival, fox incaico) music, translated into the language of a symphony orchestra.
Released in 2006 by Filarmonika Music Publishing and Caminos del Inka
Purchase at CaminosdelInka.org
Sentimiento Latino
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Juan Diego Florez, Tenor
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
Released January 1, 2006 by Decca/London
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Peter and the Wolf
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor and Spanish Narrator
Michael York, English Narrator
PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf
SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals
Tchaikovsky 5
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra present an extraordinary performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. This is the symphony's first-ever live recording, captured in Fort Worth's acoustically superior Bass Performance Hall. (The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra went on to perform Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 to great acclaim at Carnegie Hall.)