MANUEL DE FALLA: Noches en los jardines de España
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Javier Perianes, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Josep Pons
Javier Perianes offers us a passionate interpretation of one of Manuel de Falla’s masterworks, the Nights in the Gardens of Spain, and also delves into Falla’s music for solo piano. Accompanying the pianist from Nerva in this venture is the BBC Symphony and conductor Josep Pons.
This CD is presented in two versions, a standard disc and a limited premium edition with a 30-minute-plus long DVD in which Javier and Yvan Nommick, a musicologist and Falla specialist, converse in Granada about distinctive and unpublished aspects of the music of the composer.
Contents
MANUEL DE FALLA [1876-1946]
Cuatro piezas españolas (1906-09)
1. Aragonesa. Allegro (3'17)
2. Cubana. Moderato (4'21)
3. Montañesa. Andantino tranquillo (4'37)
4. Andaluza. Vivo (4'30)
Fantasia bætica (1919). Allegro moderato "À Arthur Rubinstein" (13'09)
Homenaje. "Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy" (1920). Mesto e calmo Arrangement pour piano par l'auteur (3'27)
Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas (1935). Andante molto sostenuto (4'24)
Noches en los jardines de España ["Impresiones sinfónicas para piano y orquesta"] (1916)
1. En el Generalife. Allegretto tranquillo e misterioso (10'16)
2. Danza lejana. Allegretto giusto (4'43)
3. En los jardines de la sierra de Cordoba. Vivo (9'06)
Canción (1900). Andante mesto (2'19)
Nocturno (1896). Andante molto (4'19)
Mazurka (1899). Allegretto (5'29)
Serenata andaluza (1900). Allegretto (5'29)