The Music of Tristan Fuentes - MP3 recordings
Samba loca - 5'34" - for flute and bassoon with
lots of percussion
Conditor alme siderum - 7'39"
- an old chant melody set for mixed ensemble,
Performed by New Music Agency, Lincoln, Nebraska
Berliner Kindl - 6'10" - a marimba solo performed by David Pojar
Lund - 9'10" - a
recent musique concréte piece made from 'found
sounds' in Lund, Sweden
Gretchen - 16’54” -
the fourth movement of Fuentes’ Faust cycle
Bolero - 7’11” - an
arrangement of Ravel’s classic for Helios
Risas de los Incas - 20’19”
- a theme & variations piece that begins softly
and builds to an uproar - a live recording
Pan Am - 20’36” - a
collage work with materials drawn from the Carribean,
South and Central America
with additional new composition thrown in - a live recording
Hexenkueche - 10’37”
- a live recording of the second movement of Faust
Auerbachs Keller - 15’24”
- a live recording of the first movement of Faust
Prelude to Gretchen - 12’30”
- a live recording of the third movement of Faust
Walpurgisnacht - 14’25”
- a live recording of the fifth and last movement of Faust
Til Eulenspiegel - 9’10”
- not the Strauss piece but the Fuentes version
Ave Maria - 1’51” -
written for the choir at Cathedral of the Risen Christ in
Lincoln, Nebraska - a
very live recording
Spinngewebe - 5’45”
- a live recording of vintage Fuentes
La Paz - 8’15” - a ‘musique
concréte’ piece derived from street sounds recorded
in La Paz, Bolivia
KaBoom
- 0'16" - the shortest piece in the Fuentes repertoire - really a blast!
