Falla: El amor brujo [Love, the Magician] / El retablo de Maese Pedro [Master Peter's Puppet Show]

 
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MANUEL de FALLA
Falla: El amor brujo [Love, the Magician] / El retablo de Maese Pedro [Master Peter's Puppet Show]
Esperanza Fernández (cantaora), Jennifer Zetlan (soprano), Jorge Garza (tenor) / Perspectives Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordoñez

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 November 2019

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Manuel de Falla is renowned as the greatest Spanish composer of the early 20th century, melding diverse stylistic, folk or literary influences into distinctive new musical languages and forging masterworks that have become cultural emblems of his homeland. This synthesis can be found in the original 1915 version of El amor brujo, a heartfelt representation of a young Roma woman's dramatic quest to free herself of the ghost of her lover. The mini-opera El retablo de Maese Pedro pays homage to Cervantes' beloved Don Quixote using instrumentations and rhythms that conjure both Spain's Golden Age and the vibrant energy of new European music in the 1920s.

"There's no lack of bite and raw intensity [in El Amor Brujo], and paired with an equally pungent account of another of Falla's utterly original music-theatre pieces, the chamber opera El Retablo de Maese Pedro, it's a really desirable bargain." Guardian

"Winning performances of two Falla masterpieces" MusicWeb