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 ...

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 - ...

On this week’s episode, we’re making the most of the last days of summer! We’ll be headed to sunny Spain, with music by Debussy, de Falla, and Ravel. Part of a larger set of orchestral pieces called ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Spanish composer and pianist Manuel de Falla - one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. Manuel de Falla was not well ...

Spanish composer Manuel de Falla’s opera “La Vida Breve” depicts the timeless themes of unrequited love and class inequality, and yet the hour-long work is rarely performed today in its entirety. On ...

The evening begins with Manuel De Falla’s set of songs inspired by different parts of his home country of Spain, Siete Canciones Populares Españolas, with Daniela Mack as soloist and an arrangement of ...

The sensuous, light, almost rasping voice of Estrella Morente gives authentic inflections to these songs of Manuel de Falla and Federico García Lorca. In the notes, Morente describes developing her ...

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 ...

Ludovic Morlot conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Spanish music including Ravel's iconic Bolero and de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Steven Osborne.

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 ...