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Manuel de Falla Collection | Brilliant Classics 96353

Manuel de Falla Collection

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 96353

Barcode: 5028421963532

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 5

Release Date: 17th September 2021

Contents

Artists

Marta Senn (mezzo-soprano)
Cecilia Angell (mezzo-soprano)
Fernando de La Mora (tenor)
Rafael Puyana (harpsichord)
Timora Rosler (cello)
Benita Meshulam (piano)
Jutta Czapski (piano)
Klara Wurtz (piano)
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Solistas de Mexico
Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester

Conductors

Eduardo Mata
Gunther Herbig

Works

Falla, Manuel de

Allegro de concierto
Canciones populares espanolas (7) (orch. Luciano Berio)
Cancion
Cantos de los remeros del Volga
Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello
Cortejo de gnomos
Danza espanola no.1
El amor brujo
El retablo de Maese Pedro
El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat): Suite no.2
El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat)
» Dance of the miller's wife
» Danza del molinero (Miller's dance)
» Los vecinos
Fantasia baetica
Homenaje 'Pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy'
La vida breve
Mazurka in C minor
Noches en los Jardines de Espana (Nights in the Gardens of Spain)
Nocturno in F minor
Piezas espanolas (4)
Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas
Psyche
Serenata (1901)
Serenata andaluza
Suite populaire espagnole
Vals-capricho

Artists

Marta Senn (mezzo-soprano)
Cecilia Angell (mezzo-soprano)
Fernando de La Mora (tenor)
Rafael Puyana (harpsichord)
Timora Rosler (cello)
Benita Meshulam (piano)
Jutta Czapski (piano)
Klara Wurtz (piano)
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Solistas de Mexico
Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester

Conductors

Eduardo Mata
Gunther Herbig

About

With its super-budget-priced boxes of Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich among many others, Brilliant Classics cornered the market in definitive composer editions long before other labels began to follow their lead. Music-lovers can now add a one-stop guide to the thrilling and colourful world of Manuel de Falla to their libraries with this comprehensive collection of his greatest masterpieces in modern digital recordings.

As the central figure of Spanish music in the first half of the last century, de Falla came to define the sound of Spain for listeners beyond its borders. Folk music, romanticism, neoclassicism, modernism: all the prevalent styles of his time were assimilated and absorbed within a personal idiom that advanced the work of notable predecessors such as Albeniz and Granados in establishing a distinctively Spanish idiom for art music, making him a worthy contemporary of other composers outside the central European mainstream from Vaughan Williams in England to Bartók in Hungary and Sibelius in Finland.

Falla’s cycle of Seven Popular Spanish Songs is a perfect synthesis of artsong and folksong, performed here in Luciano Berio’s orchestration by Marta Senn and the Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela under the baton of Eduardo Mata, the Mexican conductor renowned for his dynamic interpretations of Hispanic repertoire. The songs return in their instrumental guise as the Suite populaire espagnole, with the cellist Timora Rosler accompanied by Klára Würtz. Rafael Puyana is a uniquely sympathetic soloist in the Harpsichord Concerto which gave the instrument new life beyond its Baroque associations. Benita Meshulam is widely recognised as the inheritor of Alicia de Larrocha’s mantle with her superbly atmospheric recordings of Spanish piano music.

But Falla’s genius lies first and foremost in his work for the stage, bringing the blood-red passions and dark intensity of Spanish folk culture to opera and ballet as if translating the canvases of Goya into score. La vida breve masterfully integrates native gypsy cante jondo with verismo influences from Italy, while his sensitivity to the innovations of French musical impressionism resulted in the original and much imitated soundworld of Love the Magician before The Three-Cornered Hat pioneered a liberating portrait of Spanish culture in complement to Picasso’s cubist sets. More subtly ironic in tone, Master Peter’s Puppet Show is the little-known jewel of Falla’s scores for the theatre, presented here in another superbly idiomatic Mexican recording masterminded by Eduardo Mata.

For a definitive guide to the refined, multifaceted world of Manuel de Falla, look no further.

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