De Falla: Noches en los jardines de Espana; El sombrero de tres picos

Yamada’s nuanced approach suits Noches uncommonly well. Falla’s fine-grained shifts in colour and sonority are immaculately judged, textures clean yet sensual…Mari Kodama judiciously combines... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

Release Date: 19th May 2017
Catalogue No: PTC5186598
Label: Pentatone
Length: 72 minutes

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Falla: Noches en los jardines de España

23:35

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Kazuki Yamada
Mari Kodama (piano)
Recorded: July 2016
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

I. En el Generalife

9:58

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II. Danza Lejana

4:51

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III. En los Jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba

8:46

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Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Pt. 1

14:16

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Kazuki Yamada
Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded: July 2016
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Introduction

1:29

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Part I: La Tarde

5:23

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Part I: Danza de la Molinera

3:26

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Part I: Las Uvas

3:58

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El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Pt. 2

24:02

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Recorded: July 2016
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Part II: Danza de los Vecinos

3:22

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Part II: Danza del Molinera

7:56

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Part II: Danza del Corregidor

6:37

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Part II: Danza Final

6:07

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Excerpt, Falla: La vida breve

6:43

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Kazuki Yamada

Interlude & Dance

6:43

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Falla: El Amor Brujo

4:14

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Kazuki Yamada

Danza Ritual del Fuego

4:14

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Manuel de Falla’s richly evocative music erupts in a riot of colour in this vibrant new recording from Kazuki Yamada with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Works included are the ever popular Noches en los jardines de España and El sombrero de tres picos as well as movements from La vida breve and El amor brujo.

The sultry warm atmosphere of an Andalusian night is almost palpable in Falla’s spellbinding Noches en los jardines de España. With its shimmering, sensuous harmonies, exquisite orchestral colours and exuberant melodies and rhythms, it’s perhaps Falla’s most impressionistic work. Using a large orchestral canvas on which he paints with deft, luminous strokes, Falla skilfully integrates a virtuoso piano part to create lovingly evocative music, full of captivating beauty.

Elsewhere with the sensational ballet El sombrero de tres picos, Falla conjures up music steeped in Andalusian culture which is boisterous, full-bloodied, and urgent. It’s impossible not to be swept along by the drama in this orchestral showpiece. By turns lyrical, sensuous, or dramatic, the meticulously written score is full of surprises and the work positively bristles with wit, energy and exuberant intensity.

Yamada’s previous recordings with the OSR for PENTATONE have been widely praised – “Exquisite and passionate … grace abounds” (BBC Music Magazine), “tastefully refined” (Gramophone). For their more recent release of music by Roussel, Debussy and Poulenc, HRAudio.net noted Yamada’s “exuberant performance” and the OSR “playing …[with] tremendous vitality and enthusiasm, as if their very lives depended on it.”

The pianist Mari Kodama has established an international reputation for profound musicality and articulate virtuosity and has recorded extensively for PENTATONE. Her most recent release with her sister Momo Kodama, a sizzling account of Tchaikovsky ballets, was praised by The Guardian for its “sparkle and style” and described by Artamag as “…a very exciting recording, a ‘labour of love’ by two extraordinary pianists.”

Frequently in demand as an interpreter of Mozart’s works, the mezzo soprano Sophie Harmsen is a regular performer in large international festivals.

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August 2017

Yamada’s nuanced approach suits Noches uncommonly well. Falla’s fine-grained shifts in colour and sonority are immaculately judged, textures clean yet sensual…Mari Kodama judiciously combines delicacy with weight, compelling attention…the ‘Ritual Fire Dance’ is splendid in its sinister relentlessness and uneasy sense of wonder

Autumn 2017

With finely achieved performances and sound throughout this is a safely recommendable disc.

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