MANUEL DE FALLA El sombrero de tres picos. Noches en los jardines de Espana Josep Colom, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons

Two facets of musical Andalusia
On a first hearing there seems to be a world of difference between the strongly 'Debussyan' impressionism of the famous Nights in the Gardens of Spain and the no less celebrated Three-cornered Hat, the colourful farce written for the Ballets Russes. But the inexhaustible dramatic and stylistic wealth of Manuel de Falla's genius is not the only common denominator of these masterpieces of Spanish music: both of them exhale the same softness, the same fragrances that suffuse the Andalusian night... Invitation to a journey!