Manuel de Falla
Part Impressionist and part neo-Classicist, Manuel de Falla is difficult to peg, but he is widely regarded as the most distinguished Spanish composer of the early 20th century. His output is small but choice and revolves largely around music for the stage. Falla's reputation is based primarily on two lavishly Iberian ballet scores: El amor brujo ("Love, the Magician"), from which is drawn the Ritual Fire Dance (a pops favorite, often heard in piano or guitar transcriptions), and the splashy El sombrero de tres picos ("The Three-Cornered Hat"). He also gained a permanent place in the concert repertory with his evocative piano concerto Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
Born in 1876, Falla first took piano lessons from his mother in Cádiz, and later moved to Madrid to continue the piano and to study composition with Felipe Pedrell, the musical scholar who had earlier pointed Isaac Albéniz toward Spanish folk music as a source for his compositions. Pedrell interested Falla in Renaissance Spanish church music, folk music, and native opera. The latter two influences are strongly felt in La Vida breve ("Life Is Short"), an opera (a sort of Spanish Cavalleria rusticana) for which Falla won a prize in 1905, although the work was not premiered until 1913. A second significant aesthetic influence resulted from his 1907 move to Paris, where he met and fell under the Impressionist spell of Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, and Maurice Ravel. It was in Paris that Falla published his first piano pieces and songs. In 1914 he was back in Madrid, working on the application of a quasi-Impressionistic idiom to intensely Spanish subjects; El amor brujo drew on Andalusian folk music. Falla wrote another ballet in 1917, El Corregidor y la molinera ("The Magistrate and the Miller Girl"). Diaghilev persuaded him to expand the score for a ballet by Léonide Massine to be called El sombrero de tres picos, and excerpts from the full score have become a staple of the concert repertory. In between the two ballets came Nights in the Gardens of Spain, a suite of three richly scored impressions for piano and orchestra, again evoking Andalusia.
In the 1920s, Falla altered his stylistic direction, coming under the influence of Stravinsky's neo-Classicism. Works from this period include the puppet opera El retablo de Maese Pedro ("The Altarpiece of Maese Pedro"), based on an episode from Don Quixtote, and a harpsichord concerto, with the folk inspiration now Castilian rather than Andalusian. After 1926 he essentially retired, living first in Mallorca and, from 1939, in Argentina. He was generally apolitical, but the rise of fascism in Spain contributed to his decision to remain in Latin America after traveling there for a conducting engagement. He spent his final years in the Argentine desert, at work on a giant cantata, Atlántida, which remained unfinished at his death in 1946.
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Manuel De Falla: The Complete Works For Solo Piano
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 1 gen 1996
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Noches en los jardines de España, Falla
Classica - Pubblicato da ClassicalPirosDigital il 8 dic 2015
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Jardín de Hesperia
Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Musica Catalana, Josep Surinyac
Classica - Pubblicato da Arsis Aclass il 15 giu 1998
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Andalucía en los Músicos Españoles
Classica - Pubblicato da Homokord il 15 mag 2011
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Falla: Complete Works for Voice and Piano
Classica - Pubblicato da La ma de guido il 1 giu 2000
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Manuel de Falla - Great Recordings
Classica - Pubblicato da UME - Global Clearing House il 14 nov 2020
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Le Tricorne - 7 Chansons Populaires
Teresa Berganza, Jesús López-Cobos, Juan Antonio Alvarez Parejo
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 12 mar 1984
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NSO Principals Series: Cantabile Violin & Guitar
李宜錦, 蘇孟風, Niccolò Paganini, Manuel de Falla, Béla Bartók, Manuel Ponce
Classica - Pubblicato da Jingo il 12 ott 2020
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Obras Completas (Remastered)
Generi vari - Pubblicato da Master Tape Records il 6 set 2019
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Classical Guitar Quartet
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Grandi Pianisti Alicia de Larrocha
Alicia de Larrocha, Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla
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Le Tricorne - Le Feu Follet
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 1 set 2008
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Virtuosi of the Camerata Lysy Gstaad
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 1 gen 1994
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Victoria De Los Angeles in Spanish Songs
Victoria de los Angeles, Gerald Moore, Renata Tarragó
Musica vocale (sacra e profana) - Pubblicato da Prima Voce il 1 gen 2007
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Manuel de Falla: El Retablo de Maese Pedro (1957)
Orquesta Nacional De España, Ataulfo Argenta, Julita Bermejo
Classica - Pubblicato da Classical Moments il 16 mag 2013
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Manuel de Falla
Classica - Pubblicato da Piros - Artyvoz il 1 mar 2016
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Manuel de Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos [The Three Cornered Hat] (1961)
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, Teresa Berganza
Classica - Pubblicato da Classical Moments il 1 gen 1961
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Falla, Grandes Compositores Clásicos Españoles
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Amor Brujo
Musica da camera - Pubblicato da Artpegi Records il 11 ago 2012
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De Falla - The Three-Cornered Hat Suite - El Amor Brujo
Manuel de Falla, Jean Madeira, Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, Eduord Van Remoortel
Classica - Pubblicato da Denon il 1 gen 1989
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