The Mexican composer and violinist Silvestre Revueltas is essentially remembered for his colourful tone-poems, which are strongly influenced by Mexican folk music. His music is approachable: rhythmic, vibrant, even gaudily orchestrated, often with strong elements of popular Hispanic-American cultures in scores which also have strands of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Chavez. The popular Sensemayá (1938), based on a poem by the Afro-Cuban revolutionary Nicolás Guillén, is about the killing of a snake. It is an exciting work, notable for its battery of drums and terrific rhythmic drive, building up to a huge climax, and here heard in its orchestral (as opposed to the original vocal and orchestral) form. La noche des los Mayas (‘The Night of the Mayas’) was written for a 1939 film; it forms the colourful 30-minute suite assembled by the composer José Yves de Limantour in 1960 recorded here. In the (unfinished) ballet La Coronela, written in 1960, Revueltas’s obvious rhythmic flair produces some excellent, spicily balletic numbers, with the emphasis on rhythm and bold colour rather than long melodic lines. Not that there are no tunes: Don Ferruco’s Nightmare starts out as a lovely Waltz and gets gradually more quirky as it goes on. Vibrant recording to match the performances.