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Cuba The charanga. Enrique Navarro (f1); Rotterdam Conservatory Charanga Orchestra / Daniel Guzmän.

The charanga orchestras started in the brothels of Havana in the early years of the twentieth century playing danzOn, the most genteel and European influenced of Cuban styles, for middle-class clients. Initially small ensembles built around violin and flute, by the 1920s they had expanded to take in larger string sections and more percussion and it is this golden era, which saw charanga dominate Cuban music for the next two decades, to which Daniel Guzman looks here.

Guzman traces the development from the more formal compositions of the early years by the band-leaders Antonio Maria Romeu and Electo Rosell ("Chepin") to the livelier swing of 1940s compositions by Orestes Lopez and Enrique Jorrin. The album culminates in Jorrin's La enganadora, widely regarded as the first cha cha cha composition and effectively marking the end of the danzOn era.
The Rotterdam Conservatory students combine technical dexterity with a sensitivity for the material. The strings sound rather timid but there is no doubting the authenticity of the fluteplaying of Enrique Navarro from Santiago and the flair of Marc Bischoff in a series of incendiary piano solos.

Nigel Williamson 118 Gramophone February 1998