{"product_id":"5063758103671-manuel-ponce-piano-music-vol1","title":"Ponce: Piano Music, Volume 1","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile Rodolfo Ritter’s repertoire encompasses many well-known and unfamiliar composers, he has made a speciality of Ponce’s piano music. He recorded the two piano concertos (for Sterling) in 2013, as well as several solo pieces. Now, for Piano Classics, he embarks on a new adventure, which should win new friends everywhere for an idiom full of charm and optimism, essentially Romantic in spirit and piquantly coloured by the composer’s Mexican heritage. A social and cultural revolution followed on the heels of Mexico’s political revolution of 1910-1917, as a once largely rural nation became, within a matter of years, predominantly urban. Born in 1882, Manuel Ponce in some ways embodied the outward-facing spirit of that revolution, as the country’s first internationally renowned composer of European-style art music (‘classical’), and yet in the nostalgia-soaked language of that music evoked a romanticized past. This is the tension explored by Rodolfo Ritter as he begins a multi-volume journey through Ponce’s piano output – only the second pianist to do so on record.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57208223203702,"sku":"5063758103671","price":14.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_14715299_1256998_20260210081651.jpg?v=1770715097","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/5063758103671-manuel-ponce-piano-music-vol1","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}