"A mi ciudad nativa - To My Native City" Art Songs of Latin America Volume II. (2006), is a compilation of 28 songs by Latin American composers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Venezuela.  Most of the songs are first time recorded.  You can see the complete song list.

The importance of a recording like that which we present today dwells not only in the fact that a number of songs are recorded here for the first time which makes this CD an interesting development in terms of the recorded repertory, but also in its musicological importance and in the possibilities of disseminating this “new” repertory.

Some of the songs of this CD are publish in the book: The Latin American Art Song: A Critical Anthology and Interpretative Guide for Singers by Patricia Caicedo.  Among the songs that are recorded in this CD are the "Cuatro canciones incaicas" (Four Inca Songs) that are recorded for  first time.  This songs represented a landmark in the history of the Latin American Art Song for having been some of the first art songs written in an indigenous language, the Quechua. The CD has a 28 page booklet with comments about the songs and the composers.  It also has the poems in the original language and with English translations.

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"A Mi Ciudad Nativa is meant to complement Caicedo’s previous recording, Lied: Art Songs of Latin America (2001).2 On the earlier disc, Caicedo presented songs that were more familiar (at least to listeners with some knowledge of Latin-American music), and it was recorded at a time when she was in the early stages of her research on Latin-American art songs. This new recording represents the broadening of her knowledge of the repertoire through research and through the cultivation of relationships with living twentieth-century composers or with their descendents. Reportedly she has amassed a collection of scores for some 2,500 songs from eighteen countries, a number that amazes even those of us who have studied Latin-American art songs for some time."

Jonathan Kulp at the Latin American Review, 2006.  Complete review here     

  Three representative songs are:

           A ti (J. León)

          Acalanto da Rosa (C. Santoro)

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Lied: Art Songs of Latin America (2001) is a compilation of 25 of the most beautiful Latin American art   songs, works inspired by German lieder and written by 20th century Latin American composers for piano and voice works by Ginastera, Guastavino, Estevez, Ovalle, León,  Ponce, Morales Pino, Calvo y Obradors,  some of them recorded for the first time on this CD, are a thorough review (complete song list) of the complexities of Latin American sensitivities and musical expression.  These are songs of extraordinary beauty with texts taken from the giants of Latin American poetry and letters.

The sweetness and understanding with which Patricia Caicedo interprets this repertoire and the quality of the works themselves make this CD a must-have for everyone interested in expanding their musical horizons to include what has been, until now, a relatively undiscovered but vitally important and musically satisfying genre.   She is accompanied by the pianist   Pau Casan  with whom she has a well establish duet.  CD reviews

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