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Falla : El sombrero de tres picos

Pablo Heras-Casado

Classical - Released September 20, 2019 | harmonia mundi

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The discography of Manuel de Falla’s two most famous orchestral scores - El sombrero de tres picos (1916-1919) and El amor brujo (1919-1925) - reveals a certain proximity to French and (of course) Spanish orchestras. These two delicate ballets require fine balances and sharp attacks while showing a sensitivity to timbres and natural balances. Given the general scarcity of recordings of these ballets, fans of the composer must not miss this new Falla release, which presents two surprises: firstly, in El amor brujo, Pablo Heras-Casado uses a “cantaora”, in line with Josep Pons’ attempts more than twenty years ago, giving an exquisite touch of Iberian exoticism. The second surprise is that it is the Mahler Chamber Orchestra who are performing here (which could almost feel incongruous, were it not performed by musicians of such a high calibre). The orchestra is unfamiliar with this repertoire, yet the musicians undeniably virtuosic all the same. Though since Pablo Heras-Casado has been travelling all over the place, has he perhaps lost his sense of direction? El Sombrero de tres picos feels almost like Nielsen’s Aladdin here and the colours deployed in El amor brujo often evoke Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana or Nordic serenades. Doesn’t Falla’s Spain have more nerve and radiance? It calls for us to listen to Ataúlfo Argenta’s version with the Conservatory Concert Society (notably the recording of El amor brujo with Ana Maria Iriarte, 1953) again, just to make sure. © QobuzThe two splendid works on this album resulted from Manuel de Falla's encounter with the husband-and-wife team of dramatists Martínez Sierra-Lejárraga: El amor brujo, whose eminently ‘gypsy’ inspiration takes us to the very heart of the flamenco repertory, here magnificently embodied under the direction of maestro Pablo Heras-Casado; and the brilliant pantomime El sombrero de tres picos, for which Picasso designed the sets and costumes – exactly 100 years ago! © harmonia mundi
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Aranjuez (Joaquin Rodrigo, Manuel de Falla)

Miloš Karadaglić

Classical - Released February 17, 2014 | Mercury KX

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Milos Karadaglic's 2014 release on Decca is devoted to the music of Spanish composers Joaquín Rodrigo and Manuel de Falla, offering their most representative pieces for guitar and orchestra and solo guitar. Rodrigo's evocative Concierto de Aranjuez is the most celebrated guitar concerto in 20th century music, followed only slightly in popularity by his Baroque-styled Fantasía para un gentilhombre. Karadaglic frames the program with these essential masterworks, and his performances with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the London Philharmonic Orchestra are assured and elegant, while the sound of the recordings is as satisfying as any on the market. The middle portion of the album presents three pieces for solo guitar, Falla's Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy and his Danza del Molinero, arranged for guitar from the ballet El Sombrero de tres picos, along with Rodrigo's Invocacion y Danza (Homenaje a Manuel de Falla). These character pieces reveal Karadaglic introspective and searching side, which listeners will enjoy as a contrast to his more extroverted style in the larger works.© Blair Sanderson /TiVo
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Falla: Corregidor & Sombrero

Orquesta Filarmónica De Málaga

Classical - Released June 5, 2023 | IBS Classical

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Manuel de Falla: Noches en los jardines de España, El sombrero de tres picos & La vida breve (interludio y danza No. 1)

Clara Haskil

Symphonies - Released September 1, 2012 | Praga Digitals

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Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo, Concierto para clave y 5 instrumentos, Canciones Populares Españolas, Piezas Españolas, Fantasía Bética

Victoria de los Angeles

Classical - Released April 1, 2013 | Praga Digitals

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Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España, El sombrero de tres picos

Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Classical - Released May 5, 2017 | PentaTone

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Manuel de Falla’s richly evocative music erupts in a riot of colour in this vibrant new recording from Kazuki Yamada with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Works included are the ever popular Noches en los jardines de España and El sombrero de tres picos as well as movements from La vida breve and El amor brujo. The sultry warm atmosphere of an Andalusian night is almost palpable in Falla’s spellbinding Noches en los jardines de España. With its shimmering, sensuous harmonies, exquisite orchestral colours and exuberant melodies and rhythms, it’s perhaps Falla’s most impressionistic work. Using a large orchestral canvas on which he paints with deft, luminous strokes, Falla skilfully integrates a virtuoso piano part to create lovingly evocative music, full of captivating beauty. Elsewhere with the sensational ballet El sombrero de tres picos, Falla conjures up music steeped in Andalusian culture which is boisterous, full-bloodied, and urgent. It’s impossible not to be swept along by the drama in this orchestral showpiece. By turns lyrical, sensuous, or dramatic, the meticulously written score is full of surprises and the work positively bristles with wit, energy and exuberant intensity. (Text label)
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Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos; La Vida Breve; El Amor Brujo

Teresa Berganza

Classical - Released July 27, 2016 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Falla: La Vida Breve - El amor brujo - El sombrero de tres picos

Victoria de los Angeles

Classical - Released January 1, 1966 | Warner Classics

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Manuel de Falla: Fantasia Baetica & Other Piano Music

Garrick Ohlsson

Classical - Released March 2, 2018 | Hyperion

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De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain, The Three-Cornered Hat & Homenajes

Juanjo Mena

Symphonies - Released January 31, 2012 | Chandos

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Falla : El amor brujo (1915 Version) - El retablo de maese Pedro

Angel Gil-Ordoñez

Classical - Released May 10, 2019 | Naxos

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Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo is unique in that it has very rarely been performed or recorded in its original version, which remained unpublished after Falla found success with revisions that substantially changed the work. It was reconstructed in the 1980s from Falla's manuscripts, and it's quite a revelation: El amor brujo was originally a mostly vocal work whose Gypsy component was accordingly stronger. The 1915 version has been recorded before, but it gets what may be a definitive performance here by the New York-area group, Perspectives Ensemble, under Angel Gil-Ordóñez, with Cantaora singer Esperanza Fernández. She's a full-throated singer in the flamenco mold, and the story of a Gypsy girl trying to escape her lover's ghost suddenly becomes not a mood setting, but a real dramatic tale. Sample one of Fernández's pieces, such as the Canción del fuego fatuo from Act II, and you may be immediately hooked. Other attractions include the spare sound of Perspectives Ensemble, especially sharp in the small and more Stravinsky-like little opera El retablo de Maese Pedro, from eight years later. A real sleeper from Naxos that alters perceptions of a major work with powerful performances.© TiVo
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Falla : Solo Piano Works

Wilhem Latchoumia

Solo Piano - Released October 21, 2016 | La Dolce Volta

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Manuel De Falla: The Complete Works For Solo Piano

Manuel de Falla

Classical - Released January 1, 1996 | Claves Records

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Manuel de Falla: Noches En Los Jardines De España & El Amor Brujo

Luis Fernando Perez

Classical - Released October 20, 2014 | Mirare

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Falla: La Vida Breve

Juanjo Mena

Opera - Released March 1, 2019 | Chandos

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La vida breve is the first great work by Manuel de Falla, not only on account of the brilliance of his achievement, but also because in this score the powerful musical personality of the composer shines through. It introduces an orchestral scope that was previously unheard of in Hispanic musical theatre; there are direct references to folklore; there is the very remarkable role of the choir, and the incredible ability to evoke the magic of the Albaicín in Granada. The idea of the story came to Falla when he read, in the periodical "Blanco y Negro", a short poem of clear social content, written by Carlos Fernández-Shaw, which would become the heart of the libretto. ‘I am filled with emotion at the prospect of releasing this disc, because for all Spanish conductors Manuel de Falla’s La vida breve is the highpoint of Spanish opera and a fundamental work in our repertoire.’ (Juanjo Mena) © Chandos
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De Falla Collection

Various Artists

Miscellaneous - Released August 27, 2021 | Brilliant Classics

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Manuel de Falla: Noches en los jardines de España

Javier Perianes

Classical - Released September 6, 2011 | harmonia mundi

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France Romance

Kotaro Fukuma

Classical - Released April 5, 2019 | Naxos Japan

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De Falla: The Three Cornered Hat (Complete Ballet)

London Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released October 6, 2017 | Everest

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Falla: El sombrero de tres picos

Victoria de los Angeles

Classical - Released November 6, 1964 | Warner Classics

Two years after Parade, Pablo Picasso was urged again by Diaghilev to design the costumes and sets of a ballet composed by Manuel de Falla after a tale about seduction and fidelity in 18th-century’s Granada. The music, extremely inventive, includes elements of Spanish folklore, as the choreography of Leonide Massine. We release as an original album this historical version by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, the vocal parts being sung by Spanish soprano Victoria de los Ángeles. © Warner Classics