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Falla - Cuatro Piezas Espanolas | Newton Classics 8802009

Falla - Cuatro Piezas Espanolas

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Label: Newton Classics

Cat No: 8802009

Barcode: 8718247710096

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 28th June 2010

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Contents

Works

Falla
Cuatro piezas espanolas

Falla
Fantasia Baetica

Falla
El sombrero de tres picos: Suites

Falla
El amor brujo

Artists

Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Works

Falla
Cuatro piezas espanolas

Falla
Fantasia Baetica

Falla
El sombrero de tres picos: Suites

Falla
El amor brujo

Artists

Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

About

Manuel de Falla (1876–1946), along with Granados and Albéniz, was one of the first Spanish composers in more than 300 years to win international acclaim.

He was probably the most gifted of the three (although Granados tragically died young on the Lusitania in 1916), and his music is firmly rooted in the folk music of Spain. The main influences on his musical personality are Debussy, Ravel and the Russian nationalists, especially Rimsky-Korsakov, and he is one of the most original and distinctive composers of the 20th century.

El amor brujo and El sombrero de tres picos are well known as vividly scored orchestral works (both were conceived as ballets), but they also exist as highly effective piano suites, and Alicia de Larrocha was one of the foremost exponents of this repertoire.

Recording made in 1973.

What to say of Alicia de Larrocha in music such as this? Only, I think, that one cannot imagine it more idiomatically and imaginatively played … In Spanish music her playing has all the rhythmic verve, and the control, of Rubinstein at his best, and I cannot hear enough of her.’ - Gramophone, April 1975

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