Noches en los jardines de Espaņa (Nights in the Gardens of Spain), for piano & orchestra, G. 49
El Sombrero de tres picos, ballet in 2 parts, G. 53
La Vida breve, opera, G. 35/39 (2 versions): Interlude & Dance
Ritual Fire Dance, for orchestra (from "El Amor brujo")
For this 2017 Pentatone release, Manuel de Falla's most popular works are presented by Kazuki Yamada and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in glorious DSD sound. Featuring pianist Mari Kodama in the dazzling quasi-concerto Noches en los jardines de Espaņa (Nights in the Gardens of Spain) and mezzo-soprano Sophie Harmsen in the ballet El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), this album is a showcase for brilliant performances and Pentatone's extraordinary multichannel recording, which brings these vivid ...
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For this 2017 Pentatone release, Manuel de Falla's most popular works are presented by Kazuki Yamada and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in glorious DSD sound. Featuring pianist Mari Kodama in the dazzling quasi-concerto Noches en los jardines de Espaņa (Nights in the Gardens of Spain) and mezzo-soprano Sophie Harmsen in the ballet El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), this album is a showcase for brilliant performances and Pentatone's extraordinary multichannel recording, which brings these vivid masterworks to life. Details that are often overlooked or obscured in recordings of Noches en los jardines de Espaņa are crisp and fully audible here, and Kodama's virtuosic solo part is always evident in the lush scoring, even as it recedes in softer passages or emerges from the shade in prismatic bursts. In contrast to the darker timbres of Noches, El sombrero de tres picos has brighter sonorities and a rambunctious, festive feeling, and the dances explode with energy and humor. Also...
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