Falla: Popular Spanish Suite / Piano Pieces / Harpsichord Concerto

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Cat No: 8554366

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 636943436622

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: FALLA

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Manuel de Falla(1876-1946)Popular Spanish Suitefor Violin and PianoDance of theCorregidor from The Three-Cornered Hat for Solo Harp Two Dances from LoveThe Magician for Cello and Piano Mazurka; Serenata;Cancion for PianoPsyche for Soprano,Flute, Harp, Violin, Viola and CelloHomage to ClaudeDebussy for GuitarSoneto a Cordoba forSoprano and HarpConcerto forHarpsichord, Flute Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and CelloManuel de Falla was born in Cadiz on 23rd November 1876, and died inAlta Gracia, Argentina on 14th November 1946. His early musical training inCadiz was private and somewhat haphazard, and was concluded by two years ofintensive study at the Real Conservatorio in Madrid in 1896-8; but like manySpanish composers of his generation he received his advanced musical educationin Paris, where he lived from 1907 until 1914 and where he came to know Dukas(who described him affectionately as 'the little black Spaniard'), Debussy andRavel. Most of the works by which his name is remembered were composed duringthe earlier part of his career: his opera La vida breve in 1904-5, hisballets El amor brujo and El sombrero de tres picos in 1914-16and 1916-19, respectively, and his 'symphonic impressions' for piano andorchestra, Noches en Ios jardines de Espana in 1911-15. In 1920 he leftMadrid and settled (with his faithful sister Maria del Carmen as housekeeperand amanuensis) in Granada, where, among other things, he organised a festivalof cante jondo, the traditional song of Andalucia, and founded a chamberorchestra which became known as the 'Orquesta Betica da Camera' and whoseconductor was his disciple, Ernesto Halffter. Falla's compositions of the 1920sand 1930s, though important, are conceived on a small scale, with the exceptionof the huge 'scenic cantata' Atlantida, which he began in December 1928but never finished (it was completed after his death by Halffter). In October1939 Falla and his sister sailed from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, and he was tospend the remaining six years of his life in Argentina, in poor health andcomparative obscurity. His embalmed body was taken by sea to his birthplace,Cadiz, and was buried in the crypt of the cathedral.The Siete canciones populares espanolas owe their inception to arequest from a Spanish singer in the cast of La vida breve when it wasproduced in Paris in 1914, who wanted something Spanish for a projectedrecital. The songs were ready by the time Falla left Paris for Madrid inSeptember that year and they were performed for the first time on 14th January1915 at the Ateneo in Madrid by Luisa Vela and the composer. The transcriptionof six of them (omitting Seguidilla murciana) was made, as Suitepopulaire espagnole, by the Polish violinist Pawel Kochaiski. El panomoruno ('The Moorish cloth') comes from Murcia; Nana, a gentlelullaby, and the fiery Polo from Andalucia; the sad Asturiana fromThe Asturias (modem Oviedo); and the dashing Jota from Aragon; theorigin of Cancion, a bitter-sweet love-song, is uncertain. All are,
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