Manuel de Falla - El Sombrero De Tres Picos, El Amo Brujo (1999) MP3-320 Kbps [LAMB]

Manuel de Falla - El Sombrero De Tres Picos, El Amo Brujo (1999)



Quality/Bitrate: 320 Kbps

Size: 143MB

Length: 62min 09s

Genre: Classical



1. El Sombrero De Tres Picos - Part 1 (14:33)

2. El Sombrero De Tres Picos - Part 2 (23:20)

3. El Amor Brujo (24:16)



Regarded by many as the greatest Spanish composer of the twentieth century, Falla developed an interest in native Spanish music - in particular Andalusian flamenco - while studying with Felipe Pedrell in Madrid in the late 1890s. From 1907 to 1914 he lived in Paris where he met, and was influenced by, Ravel, Debussy and Dukas. Works such as the ballet El Amor Brujo and the one-act opera La Vida Breve are notably nationalistic in character, though a Stravinskian neo-classicism can be heard in works such as the Harpsichord Concerto, composed when he lived in Granada from 1921 to 1939.



El Sombrero De Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine. It was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered in 1919. It is a ballet that also the techniques of Spanish dance (adapted and somewhat simplified) instead of classical ballet. The story – a magistrate infatuated with a miller's faithful wife attempts to seduce her – derives from the novella by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.



El Amor Brujo (The Bewitched Love) was originally composed by Manuel de Falla for a chamber group, then re-scored as a symphonic suite and eventually as a ballet. The texts were by Gregorio Martínez Sierra.



The work is distinctively Andalusian in character with the songs in the Andalusian Spanish dialect of the Gypsies. 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 The Will-o'-the-Wisp) and the "Danza del terror" (Dance of Terror).



El Amor Brujo - Synopsis



El Amor Brujo is the story of a young Andalusian gypsy girl called Candela. As a girl, she was promised to be married to another man (then a boy), although her affections are directed to Carmelo. After many years Candela's husband has died (at the hands of Lucía's husband) but he continues to haunt his wife.



The entire village knows about the haunting but still brands Candela as crazy because she dances every night with her Husband's ghost (Danza del terror). Candela, now a widow, is free to establish a relationship with Carmelo, but continues to be haunted by her husband's ghost.



After a conversation with other women of the village, Candela finally comes to realise that her husband was unfaithful to her, despite all the efforts that she did to make their marriage work, her husband's lover was revealed to be Lucia.



Candela and Carmelo get advice that a ritual dance is necessary to cast the ghost off (Danza ritual del fuego), but it does not work. The ghost is still obsessed with Candela's soul.



Candela manages to trick Lucía to come that night, with the excuse of hooking her up with Carmelo. As she turns up, the nightly ritual of Candela's dance with her husband's ghost begins, but at the last moment Candela moves away from her husband and Lucía is taken away by her now dead lover (Danza del juego de amor).



Dawn breaks, Candela and Carmelo are now truly free to enjoy their love.