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 Bartók 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 Klára Würtz. 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.
2 Scene 1: Introduction y Escena (Introduction and Scene)
3 Scene 1: en la Cueva (La Noche)
4 Scene 1: Canción 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: Canción 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 Españolas (Arr. L. Berio)
16 No. 1. El Paño Moruno
17 No. 2. Seguidilla Murciana
18 No. 3. Asturiana
19 No. 4. Jota
20 No. 5. Nana
21 No. 6. Canción
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 Pregón (The Proclamation) (Master Peter)
50 La Sinfonía 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 Psyché
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 Canción
74 Fantasia Baetica
75 Noches en los Jardines de España (Nights in the Garden of Spain)
76 I. en El Generalife
77 II. Danza Lejana
78 III. en los Jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba
79 4 Piezas Españolas
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 Paño Moruno
92 II. Nana
93 III. Canción
94 IV. Polo
95 V. Asturiana
96 VI. Jota
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 Bartók 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 Klára Würtz. 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.