Falla: Nights In The Gardens Of Spain, The Three-Cornered Hat / Mena, Bavouzet, BBC Philharmonic

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
February 28, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DE FALLA, MANUEL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Philharmonic Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Bavouzet, Lojendio, Mena, Torchinsky
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 28, 2012
    • UPC
      095115169421
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10694
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Raquel Lojendio

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    2. Part I: Afternoon

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    3. Part I: Dance of the Miller's Wife: Fandango

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    4. Part I: The Grapes

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Raquel Lojendio

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    5. Part II: The Neighbors' Dance: Seguidillas

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    6. Part II: The Miller's Dance: Ferruca

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    7. Part II: Interlude: Allegretto

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    8. Part II: Interlude: Tranquillo

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Raquel Lojendio

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    9. Part II: Dance of the Corregidor

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    10. Part II: Final Dance: Jota

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    11. I. En el Generalife (In the Generalife)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    12. II. Danza lejana (Distant Dance)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    13. III. En los jardines de la Sierra de Cordoba (In the Gardens of the Sierra de Cordoba)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

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

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    15. No. 2. A Claude Debussy

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    16. No. 3. Rappel de la fanfare

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    17. No. 4. A Paul Dukas

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena

    18. No. 5. Pedrelliana

      Composer: G. Pekkera

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Juanjo Mena



There’s always room for another terrific Falla collection, though there’s certainly no shortage of them. Indeed, The Three-Cornered Hat has already been very kind to Chandos: Tortelier’s Philharmonia version is excellent (coupled with Albeniz’s Iberia in the Arbos orchestration). This one is just as fine, maybe even better. Juanjo Mena certainly gets the BBC Philharmonic to wake up from its usual bland, business-as-usual attitude and deliver tangy, idiomatic results. Listen to his perfectly judged rhythmic accents in the Dance of the Miller’s Wife, or his riotously brilliant final Jota. These zesty and energetic sections are more than offset by the poetic stillness of Raquel Lojendio’s lovely offstage soprano solo in Part Two. It’s just an excellent performance, about as good as it gets.

This is just as true of the other works on the disc. Homenajes receives a nicely contrasted interpretation that gives the piece a wider expressive range than usual–the tribute to Debussy is particularly atmospheric. Nights in the Gardens of Spain is marvelous. Bavouzet, as has become clear over the past couple of years, is a very major artist, and his performance has an especially noteworthy vitality and sparkle. So many performance of this work wallow in a sort of droopy, soggy “impressionism.” Certainly Mena and Bavouzet capture the music’s many moods, and they don’t stint on its mysterious, nocturnal tints, but they do it with a welcome rhythmic focus and firmness of outline. For a typical example, consider the vibrant Poco più animato at figure 5 in the first movement. This is great stuff, and the sonics are as bold and tactile as the interpretations.

– ClassicsToday.com