Robert Xavier Rodriguez

This 15-minute narrative cantata is the central portion of Rodríguez's multi-media Mexican folk celebration Adoraci¾n Ambulante. The American premiere, in October of 1998, was performed separately as...

Three short pieces for guitar, transcribed from the composer's Three Lullabies for Piano Solo (1990).

Commissioned by Charles and Sarah Riehm as a gift to their son Andrew Riehm, Robert Rodríguez composed Gambits: Six Chess Pieces for Horn and Piano. Motifs from the game of chess unite the music and t...

A short movement depicting the hibernation of a baby bear cub. 2 minutes.

Il Lamento di Tristano is a set of variations on two themes that are in highly contrasting styles. Rodriguez juxtaposes fragments from Wagner's opera, Tristan and Isolde, with a 14th-century monophoni...

A vivid, jazzy orchestral showpiece celebrating a familiar Latin American tradition.

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Smash the Windows is a vigorous piece full of energy and motion. The work is based on a traditional Irish jig with the same name. Robert Xavier Rodriguez calls the piece a 'toccata moto perpetuo, ' th...

Smash the Windows is a vigorous piece full of energy and motion. The work is based on a traditional Irish jig with the same name. Robert Xavier Rodriguez calls the piece a 'toccata moto perpetuo, ' th...

This 15-minute work, composed in 1989, was commissioned and premiered by the Aeolian Chamber Players. The quartet is a set of variations based on two melodies: Les Niais de Sologne by Rameau, and a fr...