Noches en los jardines de Espana. Works for solo piano
Javier Perianes,, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons
1h19
Digital
HMC902099
Apple Music
‘I never thought of becoming a virtuoso. Virtuosity, with its concert tours, has always repelled me’, Manuel de Falla told a journalist in 1915, by which time he had virtually turned his back on composition for solo piano. He did occasionally return to the genre, but it is a fact that his corpus can be contained on a single CD, along with the famous Nights in the Gardens of Spain with orchestra. The titles proclaim their indebtedness to other composers, yet the music is highly personal! In order to carry out this exciting project, Javier Perianes and Josep Pons went back to the sources, the manuscripts held in the Archivo Manuel de Falla in Granada.
MANUEL DE FALLA [1876-1946] Cuatro piezas españolas (1906-09) · 1. Aragonesa. Allegro (3'17) · 2. Cubana. Moderato (4'21) · 3. Montañesa. Andantino tranquillo (4'37) · 4. Andaluza. Vivo (4'30) · Fantasia bætica (1919). Allegro moderato "À Arthur Rubinstein" (13'09) · Homenaje. "Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy" (1920). Mesto e calmo Arrangement pour piano par l'auteur (3'27) · Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas (1935). Andante molto sostenuto (4'24) Noches en los jardines de España ["Impresiones sinfónicas para piano y orquesta"] (1916) · 1. En el Generalife. Allegretto tranquillo e misterioso (10'16) · 2. Danza lejana. Allegretto giusto (4'43) · 3. En los jardines de la sierra de Cordoba. Vivo (9'06) · Canción (1900). Andante mesto (2'19) · Nocturno (1896). Andante molto (4'19) · Mazurka (1899). Allegretto (5'29) · Serenata andaluza (1900). Allegretto (5'29)