On 28 September 1939, a group of admirers gathered at the modest house in Granada of Manuel de Falla to wish wish him bon voyage. The pretext of his journey was a concert series in Buenos Aires, but ...
March 28, 2011 • The new 103-CD Jascha Heifetz box set presents a vast trove of fantastic fiddling over a seven-decade career, from his first recording session as a teenager to his final recital in ...
A portrait of the life of the celebrated Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, whose final years were spent in Alta Gracia (Córdoba, Argentina). Mónica Galán plays a researcher whose thesis focuses on the ...
Manuel de Falla originally wrote his "El Amor Brujo" as a flamenco ballet in 1915. It went through several revisions, and he eventually dropped the dancer and singer from the work and made a concert ...
Classical music has its heartlands, and its borderlands. Spain is definitely among the latter. Composers in countries such as Russia, Sweden and Britain often felt their marginal status as a kind of ...
Alongside Manuel de Falla’s only work for piano and orchestra, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, and his finest work for solo piano, the exuberant, endlessly inventive Fantasia Baetica, Luis Fernando ...
When the San Francisco Opera announced its Beethoven & Falla concert earlier this year, the draw was obvious: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, perhaps the most recognizable work in all of classical music.
In the old days studying music meant an apprenticeship with an older master. Nowadays, most students just go to conservatories. But cellist Daniel Mueller-Schott got both. He tells the story of his ...
The West German Radio Symphony plays ballet music, but there isn't a tutu in sight. We join the orchestra, and conductor Josep Caballe-Domensch, in concert to hear the Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from The ...
Duo pianists and sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque are one of the best known four-hand duos on the circuit today. We hear them play the Spanish Dance No. 1 from "La Vida Breve," ("The Short Life") by ...