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Falla: El amor brujo; El retablo de Maese Pedro
8.573890 (Naxos, CD)
DDD
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 62'02"
Tracks: 26
Booklet pages: 24
© 2019 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd
Main country of recording: US
Country of manufacture: DE
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of Falla: El amor brujo; El retablo de Maese Pedro published on 21 August 2019
Listen: Falla: Los Pirineos (El retablo de Maese Pedro) (Track 23, 0:00-0:56)
Esperanza Fernández, Cantaora (tracks 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15 and 16)
Alfredo García, baritone (Don Quixote) (tracks 21, 24-26)
Jennifer Zetlan, soprano (Trujamán / The Boy) (tracks 18-25)
Jorge Garza, tenor (Maese Pedro) (tracks 17, 18, 21, 24 and 26)
Perspectives Ensemble
Sato Moughalian, artistic director
Angel Gil-Ordóñez, conductor
Manuel de Falla:
El amor brujo (original version, 1915)
Act I
1 Introducción y escena
2 Canción del amor dolido
3 Sortilegio
4 Danza del fin del dia: Danza ritual del fuego
5 Escena: El amor vulgar
6 Romance del pescador
7 Intermedio
Act II
8 Introducción: El fuego fatuo
9 Escena: El terror
10 Danza del fuego fatuo;: Danza del terror
11 Interludio: Alucinaciones
12 Canción del fuego fatuo
13 Conjuro para reconquistar el amor perdido
14 Escena: El amor popular
15 Danza y canción de la bruja fingida: Danza y canción del juego de amor
16 Final: Las campagnas de amanacer
El retablo de Maese Pedro ('Master Peter's Puppet Show', 1923) (Adaptation of a scene from Cervantes' El ingenioso cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha, Book II, 1615)
17 El pregón
18 La sinfonia de Maese Pedro
19 Cuadro 1. La Corte de Carlo Magno
20 Entrada de Carlo Magno
21 Cuadro 2. Melisendra
22 Cuadro 3. El suplicio del moro
23 Cuadro 4. Los Pirineos
24 Cuadro 5. La fuga
25 Cuadro 6. La persecución
26 Final
Recorded 27, 28, 30 and 31 August 2018 at Greenville Community Church, Scarsdale, NY, USA