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 ...
By the 1910s, Igor Stravinsky had established himself as the legendary composer of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The ...
Jane Jones samples the warm evening breeze and the scent of jasmine and citrus trees in Manuel de Falla's great work. The idea of a night spent in a garden in Spain is an alluring one. Just imagine - ...
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 ...
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 ...
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