Fernando Domínguez and Ónix Ensamble - Negro fuego cruzado (2016)

It is very likely that Fernando Dominguez did plant the seed that led to the birth of the modern Mexican repertoire for bass clarinet and bass clarinet with electronic media. This happened shortly after his return from Holland, where he had studied with Harry Spaarnay, founder of the modern school of bass clarinet. Many remember that meeting in which we began this journey, it took place at the home of composer Georgina Derbez, where most of the guests, all composers by the way, met Fernando for the first time, he was seeking to make contact with them and show them the enormous technical and expressive resources of his instrument. It's amazing how things take time! That meeting took place in the fall of 1999. From the very beginning of his work as a catalyst for Mexican musical creation for the bass clarinet to the present time, there has been a time-span of sixteen years until the appearance of this CD. The immense job of promoting and spreading this music done by Fernando Dominguez since then, has entailed making a large number of world premieres of works written for and dedicated to him. Also, his collaboration over a long period in monographic recordings of various composers, has allowed him to collect many of the seminal pieces in this repertoire. Works by: Javier Alvarez, Arturo Fuentes, Ana Lara, Gonzalo Macías, Hilda Paredes and Eugenio Toussaint.