Falla - Works for Stage and Concert Hall
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10694
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 30th January 2012
Contents
Works
El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat)Homenajes for orchestra
Noches en los Jardines de Espana (Nights in the Gardens of Spain)
Artists
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)Raquel Lojendio (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Juanjo MenaWorks
El sombrero de tres picos (The three-cornered hat)Homenajes for orchestra
Noches en los Jardines de Espana (Nights in the Gardens of Spain)
Artists
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)Raquel Lojendio (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Juanjo MenaAbout
Nights in the Gardens of Spain is among Falla’s most impressionistic and poetic works, full of shimmering textures that recall Debussy, but with a hard-edged precision brought to the forefront by the piano. Each of the three movements is imbued with a strong sense of location. The first evokes the Generalife gardens of the Alhambra in Granada; the second, and most animated, displays a strong North African quality; and the third is inspired by the gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba. Here Falla’s lustrous and voluptuous writing is contrasted with a dramatic refrain full of energy, colour and savagery, and the work offers one of the most sensuous endings in all music. It was performed by the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena as part of the conductor’s debut performance at the Proms in 2011. On this recording, they are joined by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, the exclusive Chandos artist and multi-award winning pianist.
Based on the novel by Alarcón, The Three-cornered Hat was commissioned in 1916 by the impresario Diaghilev for his Russian ballet company, the Ballets russes. Centred round sexual jealousy, possessiveness, mistaken identity and deception, it tells the story of the failed attempts by an elderly local magistrate (whose three-cornered hat is a symbol of authority) to seduce the miller’s lovely wife. The music is exuberant, the principal characters wittily characterised, and the original production itself boasted an incredible wealth of talent: choreography by Léonide Massine, set and costume designs by Pablo Picasso, and the star ballerina Karsavina dancing the part of the miller’s wife. It was one of the company’s greatest successes, and put Falla on the international map as a composer.
Also on this disc is the Homenajes, in which Falla pays tribute to fellow musicians and composers. ‘Fanfare sobre el nombre de Arbós’ was written for the seventieth birthday celebrations of the conductor Enrique Fernández Arbós, while ‘Pedrelliana’ pays posthumous homage to Falla’s teacher Felipe Pedrell, who had informed so much of his musical thinking.
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