Description: Manuel de Falla(1876-1946)El Amor Brujo(1915 version)El Retablo de Maese Pedro Ginesa Ortega cantaoraJoan Martin soprano • Iñaki Fresán baritone • Joan Cabero tenor Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure de BarcelonaJosep Pons, conductor 57 page booklet with librettos and parallel translations in German, French and English. El amor brujo (Love, the Magician, literally, Spell-bound Love or The Bewitched Love, sometimes translated as Wedded by Witchcraft) is a ballet composed in 1914–15 to a libretto by Gregorio Martínez Sierra. In 1916, Falla arranged a rendition of the work for sextet and small orchestra and the following year he made a concert version, also for small orchestra. Later, he fashioned a piano suite from it and finally, a second ballet version (1925) that features expanded orchestration, elimination of the narration, small cuts and plot changes, and a different order to the numbers. The work is distinctively Andalusian in character with the songs in the Andalusian Spanish dialectal modality. The music contains moments of remarkable beauty and originality; it includes the celebrated "Danza ritual del fuego" (Ritual Fire Dance), "Canción del fuego fatuo" (Song of Wildfire, or Song Of The Will-o'-the-Wisp), and the "Danza del terror" (Dance of Terror). El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show) is a puppet-opera in one act with a prologue and epilogue, to a Spanish libretto based on an abbreviation of chapter 26 of the second part of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, with some lines added from other parts of the work. Falla composed this opera "in devoted homage to the glory of Miguel de Cervantes" and dedicated it to the Princess de Polignac, who commissioned the work. Because of its very challenging part for a boy opera performer (who has by far the most lines), and its use of puppets, it is not part of the standard operatic repertoire. Otto Mayer-Serra has described this opera as a work where Falla reached beyond "Andalusianism" for his immediate musical influence and colour and began the transition into the "Hispanic neo-classicism" of his later works.
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Format: CD
Release Title: DE FALLA El Amor Brujo; El retrablo de Maese Pedro
Record Label: Harmonia Mundi (Distributor)
Release Year: 1992
Style: Opera, Ballet
Duration: 64min.
Genre: Opera, Ballet, Classical
Artist: Ginesa Ortega
