Viva Espana: The Music Of Spain

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Cat No: 8550174

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030501744

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Viva Espana

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Music of Spain Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946) The Three-Cornered Hat (El sombrero detres picos) Suite No.1 Suite No.2 Ritual Fire Dance from El amor brujo Interlude and Dance from La v Ida breveIsaac Albeniz (1860 - 1909) (Excepts from the orchestral arrangementof Iberia by Enrique Fernandez Arbos) Evocacion El Corpus en Sevilla Triana El Albaicin Manuel de Falla y Matheu was the leadingSpanish composer of his generation, writing music that was both acceptableinternationally, and yet captured the essence of all that is Spanish. He wasborn in Cadiz in 1876 and had his first music lessons from his mother, Catalanby birth. His early education was in Cadiz, a city that allowed him to develophis musical talents and interests and introduced him to the music of theNorwegian composer Edvard Grieg, whose nationalist example he resolved tofollow. By the age of seventeen he had already decided to be a composer and towrite music that expressed in worthy terms the spirit of his own country, somethingin which his immediate predecessors had had no very significant success.Foreign composers had turned their hand to the composition of Spanish music,but the nineteenth century had produced little of significance, until theadvent of the Catalan composers Isaac Albeniz and Enrique Granados, whoseachievement Manuel de Falla was to excel.From Cadiz de Falla moved to theConservatory in Madrid, where he was joined by the rest of his family, whom hehelped to support by writing popular music. The principal musical influence onhim in Madrid was Felipe Pedrell, who had also guided Albeniz and Granadostowards a new kind of musical nationalism. After some success with othercompositions, de Falla wrote music of more lasting worth in his opera Lavida breve, completed in 1905 and first performed in Nice in 1913. In thesame year it was staged at the Opera-Comique in Paris, at the suggestion ofPaul Dukas. By then de Falla had already been in the French capital for sixyears, in contact with Ravel and Debussy, and broadening his technique in a waythat would have been difficult in the relative isolation of Madrid.In 1914 de Falla returned to the Spanishcapital, where his ballet El amor brujo was staged successfully in 1915.The choreographer and principal dancer was Pastora Imperio, wife of thetoreador El Galio and daughter of the famous gypsy dancer La Mejorana, fromwhom the composer derived a more intimate knowledge of this aspect of Spanishtradition. At the same time he began his long study of Cante jondo, the folkmusic of Andalusia. Meanwhile for the Russian impresario Dyagilev, who hadtoyed with the idea of making use of Noches en los jardines de Espana (Nightsin the Gardens of Spain), for piano and orchestra, for a Spanish ballet, hewrote the ballet score El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-CorneredHat), first staged in London by the Ballets Russes in 1919. In the same year hemoved to Granada, where he remained until the end of the Spanish Civil War. In1939 he accepted an appoint
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