Manuel de Falla Collection

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
September 24, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FALLA, MANUEL DE
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 24, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421963532
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96353
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      5
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Scene 1: Introduction y Escena (Introduction and Scene)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    2. Scene 1: En la cueva (La noche)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    3. Scene 1: Canción del amor dolido (Song of the Suffering Love)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    4. Scene 1: El aparecido

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    5. Scene 2: Danza del terror

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    6. Scene 2: El circulo magico (Romance del pescador)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    7. Scene 2: A media noche (Los sortilegios)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    8. Scene 2: Danza ritual del fuego (Para ahuyentar los malos espiritus)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    9. Scene 2: Escena

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    10. Scene 2: Canción del fuego fatuo (Song of the Will-o'-the-Wisp)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    11. Scene 2: Pantomima (Pantomime)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    12. Scene 2: Danza del juego de amor

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    13. Scene 2: Final: Las campanas del amanecer

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    14. No. 1. El paño moruno

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    15. No. 2. Seguidilla murciana

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    16. No. 3. Asturiana

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    17. No. 4. Jota

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    18. No. 5. Nana

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    19. No. 6. Canción

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    20. No. 7. Polo

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    21. No. 1. Fanfare sobre el nombre de E. F. Arbos

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    22. No. 2. A Claude Debussy

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    23. No. 3. Rappel de la fanfare

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    24. No. 4. A Paul Dukas

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    25. No. 5. Pedrelliana

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    26. I. The Neighbour's Dance: Sequidillas

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    27. II. The Miller's Dance: Farruca

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    28. III. Final Dance: Jota

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    29. Act I Scene 1: Ah! Ah! Ande le tarea (Workers of the forge, A voice from the forge, Grandmother, Distant voices, Voice of a vendor, Voice of a lady vendor)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum de Carácas, Alberto Grau Cantoría, Rafael Suarez Polyphonic Choir, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Cecilia Angell, Elvira Torres, Maria Eglee Perez, Lisbeth Rojas, Carlos Silva

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    30. Act I Scene 2: Abuela, ino viene! (Salud, Grandmother)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn, Cecilia Angell

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    31. Act I Scene 3: Ah! Ah! Ande la tarea (Workers of the forge, Salud, A voice from the forge)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum de Carácas, Alberto Grau Cantoría, Rafael Suarez Polyphonic Choir, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn, Elvira Torres, Maria Eglee Perez, Lisbeth Rojas, Carlos Silva

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    32. Act I Scene 4: Salud! (Grandmother, Salud)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn, Cecilia Angell

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    33. Act I Scene 5: Paco! Paco! (Salud, Paco)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn, Fernando de la Mora

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    34. Act I Scene 6: Paco! Mi chavala! (Salud, Paco, Grandmother, Workers of the forge, Uncle Sarvaor, A voice from the forge, A voice in the distance)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum de Carácas, Alberto Grau Cantoría, Rafael Suarez Polyphonic Choir, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn, Fernando de la Mora, Cecilia Angell, William Alvarado

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    35. Act I Scene 7: Intermezzo

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    36. Act II Scene 1: Yo canto por soleares (Cantaor, Voices)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum de Carácas, Alberto Grau Cantoría, Rafael Suarez Polyphonic Choir, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Carlos Enrique Iglesias, Jorge Luis Negrete Martinez, Hector Talavera Medina

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    37. Act II Scene 1: Danza

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum de Carácas, Alberto Grau Cantoría, Rafael Suarez Polyphonic Choir, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Jorge Luis Negrete Martinez, Hector Talavera Medina

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    38. Act II Scene 2: Alli esta! (Salud, Cantaor)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn, Carlos Enrique Iglesias

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    39. Act II Scene 3: No te dije? (Uncle Sarvaor, Grandmother, Salud, Carmela, Paco)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn, Fernando de la Mora, Cecilia Angell, William Alvarado, Elizabeth Almenar

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    40. Act II Scene 4: Interlude

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    41. Act II Scene 4: Carmela mia! (Paco, Carmela, Manuel, Uncle Salvaor)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Fernando de la Mora, William Alvarado, Claudio Muskus, Elizabeth Almenar

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    42. Act II Scene 4: Last scene: Que gracia! (Manuel, Guests, Uncle Sarvaor, Paco, Carmela, Salud, Grandmother)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum de Carácas, Alberto Grau Cantoría, Rafael Suarez Polyphonic Choir, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

      Performer: Martha Senn, Fernando de la Mora, Cecilia Angell, William Alvarado, Claudio Muskus, Elizabeth Almenar

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    43. El pregón (The Proclamation) (Master Peter)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    44. La sinfonía de Maese Pedro (Master Peter's Symphony) (Master Peter, The Boy)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    45. Scene 1: La Corte de Carlo Magno (The Court of Charlemagne) (The Boy)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    46. Scene 1: Entrada de Carlo Magno (Entry of Charlemagne) (The Boy)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    47. Scene 2: Melisendra (The Boy, Don Quixote, Master Peter)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    48. Scene 3: El suplicio del Moro (The Moor's Punishment) (The Boy)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    49. Scene 4: Los Pirineos (The Pyrenees) (The Boy)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    50. Scene 5: La fuga (The Escape) (The Boy, Master Peter, Don Quixote)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    51. Final (Finale) (Don Quixote, Master Peter)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    52. Psyché

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Julianne Baird

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    53. I. Allegro

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Rafael Puyana

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    54. II. Lento (giubiloso ed energico)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Rafael Puyana

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    55. III. Vivace (flessibile, scherzando)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Solistas de Mexico

      Performer: Rafael Puyana

      Conductor: Eduardo Mata

    56. Danza del molinero (Dance of the Miller)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    57. Danza de la molinera (Dance of the Miller's Wife)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    58. Danza de los vecinos (Dance of the Neighbours)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    59. Danza de la vida breve

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    60. Homenaje de Claude Debussy

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    61. Serenata

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    62. Mazurka

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    63. Serenata Andaluza

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    64. Nocturno

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    65. Canción

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    66. Fantasia baetica

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    67. I. En el Generalife

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Performer: Jutta Czapski

      Conductor: Günther Herbig

    68. II. Danza lejana

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Performer: Jutta Czapski

      Conductor: Günther Herbig

    69. III. En los jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Performer: Jutta Czapski

      Conductor: Günther Herbig

    70. No. 1. Aragonesa

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    71. No. 2. Cubana

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    72. No. 3. Montanesa

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    73. No. 4. Andaluza

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    74. El amor brujo (Love, the Magician): VIII. Danza del ritual del fuego fatuo (Ritual Fire Dance) (version for piano)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    75. Cortejo de gnomos

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    76. Vals-capricho

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    77. Allegro de concierto

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    78. Canto de los remeros del Volga (Song of the Volga Boatmen)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    79. Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Benita Meshulam

    80. I. El paño moruno

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

    81. II. Nana

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

    82. III. Canción

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

    83. IV. Polo

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

    84. V. Asturiana

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

    85. VI. Jota

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz


As the central figure of Spanish music in the first half of the last century, de Falla (1876-1946) came to define the sound of Spain for listeners beyond its borders. Folk music, romanticism, neoclassicism, modernism: all the prevalent styles of his time were assimilated and absorbed within a personal idiom that advanced the work of notable predecessors such as Albeniz and Granados in establishing a distinctively Spanish idiom for art music, making him a worthy contemporary of other composers outside the central European mainstream from Vaughan Williams in England to Bartók in Hungary and Sibelius in Finland. Falla’s cycle of Seven Popular Spanish Songs is a perfect synthesis of artsong and folksong, performed here in Luciano Berio’s orchestration by Marta Senn and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela under the baton of Eduardo Mata, the Mexican conductor renowned for his dynamic interpretations of Hispanic repertoire. The songs return in their instrumental guise as the Suite populaire espagnole, with the cellist Timora Rosler accompanied by Klára Würtz. Rafael Puyana is a uniquely sympathetic soloist in the Harpsichord Concerto which gave the instrument new life beyond its Baroque associations. Benita Meshulam is widely recognized as the inheritor of Alicia de Larrocha’s mantle with her superbly atmospheric recordings of Spanish piano music.

REVIEW:

Manuel de Falla Collection is an honest title, since the five CDs present only a selection of his works, including well-known ones such as Nights in Spanish Gardens, El Amor Brujo, and The Three-Cornered Hat. The recordings with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra from 1981 convey particularly well the intensity of Spanish emotional worlds that Central Europeans like to assume. The round is opened with El Amor Brujo in a striking and lively performance. The interpretation of the Seven popular Spanish Songs, as well as Homenajas let the listener dive into Spanish worlds. The three dances from The Three-Cornered Hat in the version for orchestra will be joined by others in the piano version on a later CD.

For the recordings made in Venezuela, the conductor Eduardo Mata certainly holds the orchestra together and inspires it to effective performances. One could well imagine more sensitivity here, the nocturnal sultriness of the tango instead of the midday heat, so to speak, but there is little more to offer in the way of fire and color. More delicacy without sacrificing the technical quality of the recording is offered by the oldest recording.

In Nights in Spanish Gardens, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra performs under the judicious direction of Günther Herbig. The singers go along with the emotional South American approach, not without delicately savoring the music.

The two pianists offer mature quality. Benita Mehuslam, who has also recorded the complete works for piano by De Falla on the label, is featured here with excerpts, Dances from the The-Cornered Hat and Spanish pieces. In the only chamber work, besides the piano music, Klara Würtz accompanies cellist Timora Rosler on the piano in the Suite Populaire Espagnole. The two artists, who have also won awards as a duo, give the top dance of sensitivity and European noblesse, so to speak, with their interpretation that concludes the collection. Harpsichordist Rafael Puyana from Colombia can show all the registers of his skills in the harpsichord concerto. Here and also in El Retablode Maese Pedro as well as in Psyche the Solistas de Mexico play, again conducted by Eduardo Mata. Those who want to experience this composer intensively will find in this compilation a good opportunity to be infected by the joie de vivre of the music.

-- Pizzicato