TRACK INFORMATION ENGLISH GERMAN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT MORE Mari Kodama Orchestre de la Piano Suisse Romande Sophie Harmsen Mezzo-soprano Kazuki Yamada Conductor NOCHES EN LOS JARDINES DE ESPAÑA EL SOMBRERO DE TRES PICOS TRACK INFORMATION ENGLISH GERMAN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT MORE Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946) Part 2 8 Danza de los vecinos (Seguidillas) 3. 22 Noches en los jardines de España Dance of the Neighbours Nights in the Gardens of Spain 9 Danza del molinero (Farruca) 7. 56 1 En el Generalife 9. 58 Dance of the Miller In the Generalife 10 Danza del Corregidor 6. 37 2 Danza lejana 4. 51 Dance of the Corregidor A Distant Dance 11 Danza final (Jota) 6. 01 3 En los jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba 8. 38 Final Dance In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba La vida breve El sombrero de tres picos Life is Short ← ← The Three-cornered Hat 12 Interlude & Dance 6. 37 4 Introducción 1. 29 Introduction El amor brujo The Bewitched Love Part 1 13 Danza ritual del fuego 4. 14 5 La tarde 5. 23 Ritual Fire Dance Afternoon 6 Danza de la molinera (Fandango) 3. 26 Total playing time: 72. 59 Dance of the Miller’s Wife Orchestre de la Suisse Romande 7 Las uvas 3. 58 Conducted by Kazuki Yamada The Grapes Mari Kodama, piano (in Nights in the Gardens of Spain) Sophie Harmsen, mezzo-soprano (in The Three-cornered Hat) Mari Kodama Orchestre de la Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946) Part 2 Kazuki Yamada A Spaniard in Paris – through various detours, forcing him to private lessons he had received from French capital were highly influential acclaimed Spanish première, following relatively small: however, in no way did that was too smooth from his music; De Falla wrote his Noches en los jardines the range of a minor third, like a canto persuade de Falla to rearrange the de Falla portrayed the various levels of guidance of Dukas and Debussy. In revisions were to follow. The story tells USA and Japan she has consistently festival of chamber music presented the Teatro Real Madrid, she celebrated for Early Music Berlin, Anima Eterna Nazionale della RAI Torino and 2012 he conducted a semi-staged Orchestre de la Suisse Piano Suisse Romande © Marco Borggreve 8 Danza de los vecinos (Seguidillas) 3. 22 Manuel de Falla’s path depart from Spain not only in mind – he Felipe Pedrell, who was considered the on his further development as a its first performance the previous this negatively affect his reputation and, if necessary, by incorporating de España (= nights in the gardens jondo – without quoting an existing work for ballet. But de Falla, on the humour by means of onomatopoeia order to connect the scenes, de Falla of the young Sinti girl Candela, who is demonstrated the profound aesthetics together with her husband Kent Nagano great successes as Annio in “La , Capella Augustina, Collegium Tonkünstler-Orchester at the Vienna production of Honegger’s ‘Jeanne Romande Sophie Harmsen Noches en los jardines de España Dance of the Neighbours was aware that he would have to leave founding father of Spain’s national composer. “Without Paris, I would have year in Nice. He had accomplished his either during his lifetime or after his sharp angles and rough edges. And of Spain) between 1909 and 1916. He example. Then he freely develops other hand, convinced Diaghilev to and genteel stylization. The highlight of composed the Interlude, linked here to haunted by the spirit of her deceased of her very personal and unique style. near their home in San Francisco. The clemenza di Tito”. Under the direction of 1704, Concerto Köln, Freiburger Musikverein. d´arc’, with Saito-Kinen Orchestra. The Mezzo-soprano Kazuki Yamada Nights in the Gardens of Spain 9 Danza del molinero (Farruca) 7. 56 to Spanish music his home town, and possibly even his music. In 1904, de Falla wrote his opera been buried in Madrid, forgotten, and breakthrough. In 1916, his work Noches death. De Falla always kept his objective thus, his music appears to be much dedicated this peculiarly iridescent work and varies this melodically specific agree to the transformation of his the ballet is the final jota, in which de the powerful Danza española. Although lover. Magic and witchcraft dominate pianist has played with such orchestras René Jacobs, she was a Dorabella with Barockorchester as well as Pygmalion. ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ project was also a huge Founded in 1918 by Ernest Ansermet, Conductor 1 En el Generalife 9. 58 Dance of the Miller native country, in order to achieve his La vida breve (= life is short), with which chained to a miserable existence,” he en los jardines de España as a composer in view – regardless of more brittle and fragile than that for piano and orchestra to the Catalan language in the guise of late-romantic farcical pantomime, El corregidor y la Falla integrated elements from several both pieces have a clearly Andalusian the scene, as does the Andalusian- In Japan, Kodama is a regular guest as the Berlin Philharmonic, London the Freiburger Barockorchester on tour She regularly performs at festivals He is the incoming Principal Conductor hit in spring 2015 in Côme de Bellescize’s permanent conductor until 1967, the In the Generalife 10 Danza del Corregidor 6. 37 Towards the end of the 19th century goal: a national musical idiom for Spain. he not only won a competition for the remarked later. He developed a close (= nights in the gardens of Spain) was whether he was staying in a cultural of his contemporaries Granados or pianist Ricardo Viñes, whom he had and impressionist music. Although the molinera (= the magistrate and the regions in Spain in order to give a character, the tonality could hardly Arabian character of de Falla’s music. of major Japanese orchestras, most Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, through Europe and Asia. such as the Salzburg Festival, the and Artistic Director of the Orchestre staged version at the new Philharmonie Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, with 2 Danza lejana 4. 51 Dance of the Corregidor and the beginning of the 20th, many promotion of Spanish national opera, friendship with both Paul Dukas and enthusiastically received. That year, backwater in Spain, or performing Albéniz. De Falla formulated his views met in Paris. It is subtitled “impresiones piano has a virtuoso role, it is integrated miller’s wife), into a full-length ballet. precise characterization of the persons be more contradictory: against the recently the Tokyo Metropolitan Hallé Orchestra, the Montreal Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, as hall in Paris, with Orchestre de Paris, its 112 permanent musicians, ensures A Distant Dance 11 Danza final (Jota) 6. 01 composers throughout Europe were De Falla was born in 1876 in the but which he also considered to be his Claude Debussy, and his name became de Falla also completed his farcical on the international cultural stage of on music in 1917 in a crystal-clear and sinfónicas”. At the first glance, these within the orchestral ensemble. In the And thus came about El sombrero according to their origin. There is no late-romantic mood of the Interlude, Mari Kodama, Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, the NDR Symphony She sees the collaboration with large Rheingau Musikfestival and Bachfest well as maintaining his role as Principal and Marion Cotillard narrating the role subscription concerts in Geneva and NOCHES EN 3 En los jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba 8. 38 Final Dance primarily devoting themselves to the southern Andalusian town of Cádiz. As first mature work. more prominent within artistic circles. pantomime El corregidor y la molinera, Paris. His main desire was to create a unambiguous manner: “Music is not “symphonic impressions” appear to second movement (Danza lejana, = de tres picos (= the three-cornered longer any trace of Impressionism: here, the sharp rhythms and the crystal-clear Piano Orchestra in Tokyo. A brilliantly well- Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Los symphony orchestras such as the Leipzig. Sophie Harmsen studied at the Guest Conductor of Orchestre de la of Jeanne. Lausanne, the City of Geneva symphony In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba search for a national identity: for a child, he received piano lessons and He was profoundly influenced by the based on Alarcón’s novel El sombrero highly civilized and modern Spanish created and never should be created in be a classical, three-movement piano distant dance), the changing note hat), which received its première in traditional music prevails and evokes a harmonies of the Danza stand out received performance of the complete Angeles Philharmonic and the Berkeley Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the University of Cape Town and as well in Suisse Romande. In Japan, he holds concerts, the annual concert for the LOS JARDINES La vida breve instance, in Finland there was Sibelius; theory of harmony, making his first The next step in his career led de Ballets Russes and the works written de tres picos (= the three-cornered musical idiom, without losing sight of order to be comprehended, but to be concerto; however, after reviewing the motif from the beginning reappears – London in 1919 with sets and costumes “sophisticated simplicity” (Voss). clearly. Born in Osaka, Mari Kodama was Beethoven Sonata cycle in Los Angeles Symphony, among others. Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Radio- Germany under Prof. Dr. Edith Wiens. further titles of Principal Conductor of Yamada was the winner of the 51st UN, as well as opera performances DE ESPAÑA El sombrero de tres picos Life is Short in Hungary, Bartók and Kodály; and attempts at composition at an early Falla, full of hope for a breakthrough by Stravinsky for this splendid and, at hat); and three years later in London it its authenticity.