An Extension of My Home Country
Donald Macleod focuses on Falla's move to Paris, made with the promise of a concert tour that ultimately never materialised.
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. In 1907 Falla moved to Paris, with a promise of a concert tour that in the end never materialised. He managed to gather together enough pupils to be able to afford stay on, and lived there for the next seven years. He said he found in Paris "what became an extension of my home country." It was in France that Falla's opera La Vida Breve first found success, after which it seems that he was intending to settle permanently in Paris. He hoped his parents and his sister would be able to join him: "not in Paris but a healthy quiet village, cheerful and picturesque, within an hour of the Gare Saint-Lazare." However, very soon afterwards he found Paris mobilising for WW1 and, in common with thousands of other foreigners, left the city, and he returned to neutral Spain.
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Manuel de Falla
Homenaje 'Le tombeau de Claude Debussy' for guitar
Performer: John Williams.- SONY CLASSICAL : SBK46-347.
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Manuel de Falla
7 Canciones populares espanolas, arr. Berio for voice & orchestra [orig. for voi
Singer: Alicia Naf茅. Conductor: Jes煤s L贸pez Cobos. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.- DENON : co-75339.
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Manuel de Falla
4 Pieces espagnoles for piano
Performer: Martin Jones.- NIMBUS : NI-5619/23.
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Manuel de Falla
El Pan de ronda for voice and piano
Performer: Len Vorster. Singer: Merlyn Quaife.- Naxos 8.554498.
- Naxos.
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Manuel de Falla
Cancion for piano
Performer: Miguel Baselga.- BIS : CD-773.
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Manuel de Falla
Cortejo de gnomos for piano
Performer: Len Vorster.- Naxos 8.554498.
- Naxos.
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Manuel de Falla
5 Pieces [from El Amor brujo], arr. for piano
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.- DECCA : 417 816-2.
- DECCA.
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Manuel de Falla
El Amor brujo (Ritual fire dance), arr. Piatigorsky for cello and piano
Performer: Samuel Sanders. Performer: Heinrich Schiff.
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