LP record Música de Cuba, Vol. VI (instrumental) (Areíto/EGREM 12″ 33⅓ rpm LP, LDA-3334, 1969)

Audio Recording

Archive of Cuban Socialism

Name/Title

LP record "Música de Cuba", Vol. VI (instrumental) (Areíto/EGREM 12″ 33⅓ rpm LP, LDA-3334, 1969)

Entry/Object ID

2025.1.309

Description

A 12-inch, 33⅓ rpm long-play vinyl record in a printed paper sleeve, produced and distributed by EGREM on its Areíto label — the sixth volume of a numbered instrumental "Música de Cuba" series. It presents canonical Cuban repertoire in orchestral instrumental versions, performed by three ensembles keyed on the back by a dot system: the Orquesta del Festival (directed by Gonzalo Roig), the Orquesta EGREM (directed by Emilio Peñalver), and the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna (directed by Rafael Somavilla). Side A: "Quiéreme Mucho" (Gonzalo Roig), "Suavecito" (Ignacio Piñeiro), "La Comparsa" (Lecuona), "Martha" (Moisés Simons), "Me Siento Libre" (Raúl Gómez), "Mentira Salomé" (Ignacio Piñeiro). Side B: "Siboney" (Lecuona), "Las Perlas de tu Boca" (Eliseo Grenet), "Tres Lindas Cubanas" (Antonio María Romeu), "¡Ay! Mamá Inés" (Grenet), "Esto es Cubano" (Emilio Peñalver), "Cuba, Qué Linda es Cuba" (Eduardo Saborit). The cream Areíto disc label (globe motif, cemí) reads "Música de Cuba Vol. VI," "33 rpm," "LDA-3334."

Context

This is an EGREM canon-building compilation: an instrumental survey of the Cuban musical patrimony, packaged as numbered national heritage. The repertoire gathers the great names of early-twentieth-century Cuban song and dance — Lecuona ("La Comparsa," "Siboney"), Gonzalo Roig ("Quiéreme Mucho"), Ignacio Piñeiro ("Suavecito"), Moisés Simons, Eliseo Grenet, the danzón master Antonio María Romeu ("Tres Lindas Cubanas") — and folds in revolutionary-era patriotic numbers such as Eduardo Saborit's "Cuba, Qué Linda es Cuba" and Peñalver's "Esto es Cubano," presenting pre- and post-1959 Cuba as a single continuous canon. What makes it especially interesting is the pairing of registers: the Orquesta del Festival is led by Gonzalo Roig — the Cuban composer, conductor, and pioneer of the symphonic movement (1890–1970), author of "Quiéreme mucho" and the zarzuela Cecilia Valdés — here in one of his final recordings before his death in June 1970, while the same disc enlists the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, the new modern-jazz orchestra, to render other classics. The grand old maestro, the EGREM house orchestra, and the modern band thus appear side by side, all enlisted to reproduce the national songbook for domestic and export ("la música cubana alrededor del mundo") audiences. The criollo ornament frame the contents as heritage.

Audio Format

33 RPM Record

Recording Type

Instrumental

Collection

The Cabrera Arús family collection, Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection

Acquisition

Accession

2025.1

Album Detail

Contributors

Place Recorded

City

Havana

Country

Cuba

Region

Caribbean, Central America

Language

Spanish

Album Artwork Description

The front cover frames a circular color photograph of the Parque Almendares (the 'Bosque de La Habana'), the riverside park on the Río Almendares in Havana — its wooded bank and long footbridge over the calm river — in a deep-red field with yellow criollo scroll ornaments

Notes

Orchestra/director assignments: Orquesta del Festival, dir. Gonzalo Roig (incl. "Quiéreme Mucho," "Siboney"); Orquesta EGREM, dir. Emilio Peñalver (incl. "Suavecito," "Martha," "Tres Lindas Cubanas," "Esto es Cubano"); Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, dir. Rafael Somavilla (incl. "La Comparsa," "Me Siento Libre," "Mentira Salomé," "Cuba, Qué Linda es Cuba"). The back-cover dot system encodes these per track. Provenance: signed "Dr. Leopoldo Arús Gálvez" (twice) with the price "10.00" (pesos) and inventory "234" — a named former-owner copy.

Track Details

Title

Quiereme mucho

Track Contributors

Contributor

Track Contributors

Contributor

Eduardo Saborit

Role

Composer

Contributor

Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna

Role

Band

Language

Spanish

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Stamp

Location

Back of sleeve in top right corner and in the middle of back cover.

Transcription

Dr. Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

Notes

Cursive name stamp

Type

Note

Location

Back of album sleeve, top right corner

Transcription

234

Material/Technique

Marker

Notes

Number assigned to record in Dr. Arús Gálvez's collection

Dimensions

Height

31 cm

Width

30.5 cm

Parts

Album cover sleeve, paper sleeve, vinyl

Condition

Country

Cuba

Region

Caribbean, Central America

Place

Location

Parque Almendares

City

Havana

Country

Cuba

Region

Caribbean, Central America

Web Links and URLs

Amazon sale 5/12/2022, https://www.discogs.com/release/3702370-Various-Musica-De-Cuba-Vol-VI

Created By

María A. Cabrera Arús

Create Date

March 31, 2022

Updated By

María A. Cabrera Arús

Update Date

June 16, 2026