Falla: Fantasia Baetica & Other Piano Music

 
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MANUEL DE FALLA
Falla: Fantasia Baetica & Other Piano Music
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 2 March 2018

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Another of those stimulating, engaging programmes in which Garrick Ohlsson specializes: this all-Falla recital combines works originally written for the piano with the composer's own transcriptions from his classic ballet and opera scores.

"This album is a must-buy for Falla fans and newbies alike. But, as with all exceptional recordings, it's about a confluence of talents, musical and technical. Indeed, Hyperion's Andrew Keener and David Hinitt have actually raised the bar with this one, no mean feat for a label that already has a well-deserved reputation for class-leading sonics. Distinguished pianism, a fine venue and a first-rate recording, in short, a perfect storm." MusicWeb Recording of the Month April 2018

"Ohlsson may not inhabit Manuel de Falla's sultry and exuberant piano-writing as Alicia de Larrocha or Javier Perianes do, yet he embraces the idiom with ease and fluidity, and leaves few small details unnoticed." Gramophone

"Is there more gladdening, life-enhancing piano music than that of those later 19th-century Spaniards Albeniz, Granados and Falla? Ohlsson's lovely, spirited accounts of a judicious selection from Falla's output for the instrument make for a seductive disc" The Sunday Times

Tracks:

Cuatro piezas españolas [16'37]
1 Aragonesa [3'00]
2 Cubana [4'03]
3 Montañesa [5'12]
4 Andaluza [4'22]

DANCES FROM EL SOMBRERO DE TRES PICOS
5 Danza de los vecinos [3'35]
6 Danza del molinero [3'16]
7 Danza de la molinera [4'09]
8 Canto de los remeros del Volga [4'12]
SUITE FROM EL AMOR BRUJO
9 Pantomima [5'11]
10 Canción del fuego fatuo [2'44]
11 Danza del terror [2'29]
12 El círculo mágico - Romance del pescador [2'18]
13 Danza ritual del fuego [4'58]
14 Homenaje 'Pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy' [2'49]
15 Segunda danza española from La vida breve [4'33]
16 Fantasia Baetica [13'03]

Manuel de Falla - Fantasia Baetica & Other Piano Music - Garrick Ohlsson