Track Listing

1. The Three-Cornered Hat: Introduction y tarde
2. The Three-Cornered Hat: Danza de la molinera
3. The Three-Cornered Hat: Danza de los vecinos
4. The Three-Cornered Hat: Danza del molinero
5. The Three-Cornered Hat: Danza final
6. Love The Magician: Introduction y Escena
7. Love The Magician: En la cueva
8. Love The Magician: Cancion del amor dolido
9. Love The Magician: El aparecido
10. Love The Magician: Danza del terror
11. Love The Magician: El circulo magico
12. Love The Magician: A medianoche
13. Love The Magician: Danza rituel del fuego
14. Love The Magician: Escena
15. Love The Magician: Cancion del fuego fatuo
16. Love The Magician: Pantomima
17. Love The Magician: Danza del Juego del amor
18. Love The Magician: Final: Les campana del amanecer
19. Nights in the Gardens of Spain: I: En el Generalife
20. II: Danza lejana
21. Nights in the Gardens of Spain: III: En los jardinos de la Sierra de Cordoba

Product Details

• Released on: 1993-08-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

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Spanish critics have long hailed Gonzalo Soriano's two recordings of Nights in the Gardens of Spain--this one from 1962 and an earlier effort with Ataulfo Argenta--as among the finest readings of the score ever committed to disc. It's easy to see why. Soriano brings to bear a conception that is firm, detailed, and energetic and plays the piece with real flair. His partner on the podium, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, only 28 years old when the recording was made, sparks a magnificent account from the Paris Conservatory Orchestra: masculine, evocative, and glowingly ardent despite occasional problems with intonation in the horns and low strings. For this most impressionistic of Falla's scores, it's an ideal sound. The companion pieces, Falla's El Amor Brujo and a suite from The Three-Cornered Hat (not the complete ballet), are masterfully rendered by Carlo Maria Giulini and the Philharmonia Orchestra. --Ted Libbey