Both arrangers feature percussion sections which relate to Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, but Limantour altered Revueltas' score extensively.
[1] In 1946 the German composer Paul Hindemith made a visit to Mexico where he met Rosaura Revueltas, sister of Silvestre.
[2] Hindemith's version calls for a small orchestra consisting of: In 1959, Mexican conductor José Yves Limantour made a four-movement suite from La noche de los Mayas.
In this version, Limantour "took every imaginable liberty", including the addition of a concluding, extended "improvisation" of exotic percussion instruments which is largely responsible for the music's success with audiences, who erroneously believe it to have been composed by Revueltas himself.
[5] The version by José Limantour was recorded by the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and released on Deutsche Grammophon in 2010.