I'm so sorry that the reviewer in El Salvador feels that Ramirez' work has been "destroyed" in our effort, feeling its moods as dismal. In fact, the tempi and moods in this one and those in Ramirez' own recording made in Argentina when Misa Criolla was much younger, are not all that far apart! The biggest difference between ours and his is our adaptations of the instrumentation, legitimate in a still-evolving work like this one inspired by folk music, performed and recorded before with one tenor soloist. Ours has three, along with the extra excitement their ensemble singing provides, and the traditional and modern instruments are played in our recording, as in the composers, by specialists from Argentina.I love this music, these performances of it and this recording, The more I still listen after having long completed the lengthy process of recording then preparing it for publication, I continue to hear in it new things to savour.Curt Wittig, recordist & mastering engineer for this CD