In the past few years the Kronos Quartet has been making one "World Music" album after another, and most of these have received good reviews, to my amazment. The album Nuveo (which purports to be a cross-section of Mexican musical culture), for example, is often hailed as "a daring foray", "experimental" and "richly textured", but I find it half-baked and confusing. The only good thing on the said album is Sensemaya by Silvestre Revueltas, which is a bona-fide classical work by a modern composer. This said, I'll look out for a cheap copy of You've Stolen My Heart.
For a classicist's adventure into World Music, I find the Silk Road project by Yo-yo Ma more musically satisfying.
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