Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat; Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Osorio, Jorge Federico, Prieto, Carlos Miguel, The Orchestra of the Americas

CKD 625

Following its acclaimed Linn debut recording, Copland & Chávez: Pan-American Reflections, The Orchestra of the Americas releases its sophomore album with Carlos Miguel Prieto. • Prieto is joined by fellow Mexican and celebrated pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, who brings his superb musicianship, powerful technique, vibrant imagination and deep passion to this all-Spanish programme. • Osorio is the soloist in Falla’s highly atmospheric piano concerto, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, a set of symphonic impressions which conjures up the enticing sounds and scents of a summer’s evening. • Conductor and pianist received critical acclaim following their performance of this work in Ireland: ‘Prieto elicited a diaphanous palette of colours [and] as Osorio’s arpeggios shimmered up and down the piano we were magnetically drawn into this highly evocative world full of lush sounds and sensuous possibilities.’ • Falla’s finely crafted masterpiece The Three-Cornered Hat is both vibrant and colourful and showcases the ‘superb precision’ of The Orchestra of the Americas. • The programme is completed by the Interlude & Dance from Falla’s La vida breve and the Intermezzo from Granados’ exquisite Goyescas.

CD x 1

Linn

6.07.2020

0691062062527

BBC Radio Scotland:'Classics Unwrapped' - Album of the Week (July, 2020)