The composers and works on this a cappella choral release are mostly unfamiliar outside Iberia, but not the melodies; the nearly two-dozen short tunes, mostly drawn on folk and regional traditions, have in several cases served as source material for or been arranged from popular symphonic works. The opening En Aranjuez con tu amor comes from Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez; Soy de Mieres (track 16) became one of the Siete canciones populares of Manuel de Falla. The charming Catalan folk song El cant dels ocells is a concert ...
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The composers and works on this a cappella choral release are mostly unfamiliar outside Iberia, but not the melodies; the nearly two-dozen short tunes, mostly drawn on folk and regional traditions, have in several cases served as source material for or been arranged from popular symphonic works. The opening En Aranjuez con tu amor comes from Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez; Soy de Mieres (track 16) became one of the Siete canciones populares of Manuel de Falla. The charming Catalan folk song El cant dels ocells is a concert standard both for vocalists and for cello. All three of these pieces are associated with different regions of Spain, and that indicates the album's theme: it is a "postcard from Spain" not in the usual sense of sending a few colorful Spanish scenes but instead in the sense of an entire tour of the peninsula and even nearby islands. You might call it a musical travel diary of Spain. The diversity of these small pieces is what makes the program so enjoyable; each one brings a new...
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