Search - Ravel; Falla; Rinsky-Korsakov; Chabrier; Turina, Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal :: Bolero; Three Cornered Hat; Espana; Capriccio Espagnol; Ritual Fire Dance; El Amor Brujo

You will blissfully be carried away...

Mr Bassil A MARDELLI | Riad El-SOLH , Beirut Lebanon | 04/21/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This recording of Bolero - Espana carries you back in time to eighteenth century Spain.



The interpretation is well set as to make us imagine a soloist or a couple or a combination of four dancers.



The tempo is moderately slow; at time you will be led to think that the dancers are the absolute performers with their castanets' percussion clicking together in complete rhythm with the dance as if conducting the music, the guitars, and the short lyrics.



Ravel, Falla, Rimsky-Korsakoz, and many more (Chopin! not here though) wrote such music for Bolero Dancing; they are the stars of this recording.



Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) Boléro (premiered in 1928) is one of his most famous works, originally written as a ballet score but here played as a concert piece .



My God!! Falla's Ritual Fire dance (also known as, "fire spinning,") is a group of performance arts or disciplines that involve manipulation of objects on fire, like juggling or baton twirling now transfused in this music giving us a visual picture of rhythmic gymnastics fully molded in musical language.



Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) wrote Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol and the Russian Easter Overture. He noted that these three works "show a considerable falling off in the use of contrapuntal A Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanetskind of figuration which sustains the technical interest of my compositions." Only Capriccio Espagnol is shown in this recording but I enjoyed some fifteen minutes of beautiful work.



Enjoy.........

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Track listing & information

Anne Kathleen | In front of my Mac, United States | 06/06/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"German import CD.



Track listing:



1. RAVEL: BOLERO (14:42)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Sir George Solti



FALLA: 3 DANCES FROM THE THREE-CORNERED HAT

2. The Neighbours' Dance (3:20)

3. The Miller's Dance (2:41)

4. Final Dance (6:04)



RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOL (15:35)

5. Alborada

6. Variazioni

7. Alborada

8. Scena e canto gitano

9. Fandango asturiano



10. CHABRIER: ESPANA (6:46)

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Jesus Lopez-Cobos



TURINA: DANZAS FANTASTICAS

11. No. 3 Orgia (4:04)

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Jesus Lopez-Cobos



FALLA: EL AMOR BRUJO

12. Ritual Fire Dance (4:23)

Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal / Charles Dutoit"