Falla De Falla Collection CD

With it's 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 (1876-1946) came to define the sound of Spain for listeners beyond it's 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 Bart?k 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 Simon Bolivar 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 Klra W?rtz. Rafael Puyana is a uniquely sympathetic soloist in the Harpsichord Concerto which gave the instrument new life beyond it's Baroque associations. Benita Meshulam is widely recognized as the inheritor of Alicia de Larrocha's mantle with her superbly atmospheric recordings of Spanish piano music.

1. El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) 2. Scene 1: Introduction y Escena (Introduction and Scene) 3. Scene 1: En la cueva (La noche) 4. Scene 1: Canci?n del amor dolido (Song of the Suffering Love) 5. Scene 1: El aparecido 6. Scene 2: Danza del terror 7. Scene 2: El circulo magico (Romance del pescador) 8. Scene 2: A media noche (Los sortilegios) 9. Scene 2: Danza ritual del fuego (Para ahuyentar los malos espiritus) 10. Scene 2: Escena 11. Scene 2: Canci?n del fuego fatuo (Song of the Will-o'-the-Wisp) 12. Scene 2: Pantomima (Pantomime) 13. Scene 2: Danza del juego de amor 14. Scene 2: Final: Las campanas del amanecer 15. 7 Canciones populares espa±olas (arr. L. Berio) 16. No. 1. El pa±o moruno 17. No. 2. Seguidilla murciana 18. No. 3. Asturiana 19. No. 4. Jota 20. No. 5. Nana 21. No. 6. Canci?n 22. No. 7. Polo 23. Homenajes 24. No. 1. Fanfare sobre el nombre de E. F. Arbos 25. No. 2. A Claude Debussy 26. No. 3. Rappel de la fanfare 27. No. 4. A Paul Dukas 28. No. 5. Pedrelliana 29. El sombrero de tres picos (The Three Cornered Hat) Suite No. 2 30. I. The Neighbour's Dance: Sequidillas 31. II. The Miller's Dance: Farruca 32. III. Final Dance: Jota 33. La vida breve 34. Act I Scene 1: Ah! Ah! Ande le tarea (Workers of the forge, A voice from the forge, Grandmother, Distant voices, Voice of a vendor, Voice of a lady vendor) 35. Act I Scene 2: Abuela, ino viene! (Salud, Grandmother) 36. Act I Scene 3: Ah! Ah! Ande la tarea (Workers of the forge, Salud, A voice from the forge) 37. Act I Scene 4: Salud! (Grandmother, Salud) 38. Act I Scene 5: Paco! Paco! (Salud, Paco) 39. Act I Scene 6: Paco! Mi chavala! (Salud, Paco, Grandmother, Workers of the forge, Uncle Sarvaor, A voice from the forge, A voice in the distance) 40. Act I Scene 7: Intermezzo 41. Act II Scene 1: Yo canto por soleares (Cantaor, Voices) 42. Act II Scene 1: Danza 43. Act II Scene 2: Alli esta! (Salud, Cantaor) 44. Act II Scene 3: No te dije? (Uncle Sarvaor, Grandmother, Salud, Carmela, Paco) 45. Act II Scene 4: Interlude 46. Act II Scene 4: Carmela mia! (Paco, Carmela, Manuel, Uncle Salvaor) 47. Act II Scene 4: Last scene: Que gracia! (Manuel, Guests, Uncle Sarvaor, Paco, Carmela, Salud, Grandmother) 48. El retablo de Maese Pedro 49. El preg?n (The Proclamation) (Master Peter) 50. La sinfon?a de Maese Pedro (Master Peter's Symphony) (Master Peter, The Boy) 51. Scene 1: La Corte de Carlo Magno (The Court of Charlemagne) (The Boy) 52. Scene 1: Entrada de Carlo Magno (Entry of Charlemagne) (The Boy) 53. 2: Melisendra (The Boy, Don Quixote, Master Peter) 54. Scene 3: El suplicio del Moro (The Moor's Punishment) (The Boy) 55. Scene 4: Los Pirineos (The Pyrenees) (The Boy) 56. Scene 5: La fuga (The Escape) (The Boy, Master Peter, Don Quixote) 57. Final (Finale) (Don Quixote, Master Peter) 58. Psych? 59. Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello 60. I. Allegro 61. II. Lento (giubiloso ed energico) 62. III. Vivace (flessibile, scherzando) 63. El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) (version for piano) 64. Danza del molinero (Dance of the Miller) 65. Danza de la molinera (Dance of the Miller's Wife) 66. Danza de los vecinos (Dance of the Neighbours) 67. Danza de la vida breve 68. Homenaje de Claude Debussy 69. Serenata 70. Mazurka 71. Serenata Andaluza 72. Nocturno 73. Canci?n 74. Fantasia baetica 75. Noches en los jardines de Espa±a (Nights in the Garden of Spain) 76. I. En el Generalife 77. II. Danza lejana 78. III. En los jardines de la Sierra de C?rdoba 79. 4 Piezas espa±olas 80. No. 1. Aragonesa 81. No. 2. Cubana 82. No. 3. Montanesa 83. No. 4. Andaluza 84. El amor brujo (Love, the Magician): VIII. Danza del ritual del fuego fatuo (Ritual Fire Dance) (version for piano) 85. Cortejo de gnomos 86. Vals-capricho 87. Allegro de concierto 88. Canto de los remeros del Volga 89. Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas 90. Suite populaire espagnole (arr. for cello and piano) 91. I. El pa±o moruno 92. II. Nana 93. III. Canci?n 94. IV. Polo 95. V. Asturiana 96. VI. Jota