TECLA - Ximénez

Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado was born in Arequipa in Peru in 1784 and then from 1833 was director of music at Sucre Cathedral in Bolivia for the rest of his life. His three divertimientos opp. 43, 53 and 59 edited here are a remarkable recent addition to music history because of their quality and because they incorporate popular music from that time and place into works of otherwise classical construction, something which until now was not thought to have been done in that area until about one hundred years later. They are important in showing us something of music in Peru and Bolivia at that time, and especially they are important to the guitar because of the elaborate guitar parts. Indeed, each of these three divertimientos is called a Divertimiento concertante because of the star role that it gives in each case to the guitar. They are edited here by Gabriel Schebor.

The Divertimiento op. 43 contains two popular dances, the bailecito and the yaraví. In op. 59, the dance in the last movement is a bailecito.

You can see a video of the last movement of op. 43 here, in which Gabriel Schebor plays the guitar part. Look and listen particularly at 4:22 and 8:24, where the bailecitos come in:

TECLA X 10301 Ximénez: Divertimiento op. 43
TECLA X 10302 Ximénez: Divertimiento op. 52
TECLA X 10303 Ximénez: Divertimiento op. 59

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