Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Piano Works | Harmonia Mundi HMC902099

Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Piano Works

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMC902099

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 5th September 2011

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About

A rising star both in his native Spain and, more recently, much further afield, the young pianist Javier Perianes was in London in January 2011 for his debut concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, recorded here. The repertoire is a piece Perianes knows well, de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain, and the conductor is someone he knows and respects hugely, Josep Pons.

In order to carry out this exciting project, Javier Perianes and Josep Pons returned to the original sources: manuscripts held in the Archivo Manuel de Falla in Granada.

Perianes continues to champion neglected Spanish composers and his most recent CD, of sonatas by Manuel Blasco de Nebra, has been a minor revelation.

Recorded at the Barbican, January 2011.

This was a programme born for marketing cliché: banish the winter blues by bathing in Latin American/Iberian warmth. And it turned out to be true, by virtue of an unexpected watershed. How did the BBC Symphony strings manage to be first among the London orchestras to slip into something truly sensual...Pons again knew exactly what to do with the ever-headier variations of the final Jota, taken at quite a lick from the start, and the orchestra let down its newly acquired glossy raven locks with ideal exuberance.” - the artsdesk.com

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