![]() ![]() Perianes consequently gives us the El Amor brujo piano suite, to which the vocal ‘Cancíon del fuego fatuo’ has been added, before accompanying Morente in Lorca’s collection, and both performances are utterly mesmerising. We’ve similarly lost sight of the fact that Lorca trained as a composer before turning to poetry, collected and arranged folk music for most of his life and in 1931 recorded his own Canciones españolas antiguas with the flamenco diva La Argentinita, whom Morente acknowledges as a major influence on her work. ![]() We’re so used to hearing classically trained sopranos or mezzos such as Victoria de los Angeles, Teresa Berganza or Shirley Verrett performing the vocal numbers from El Amor brujo that we easily forget that Falla insisted they be performed by a folk singer. ![]() This fascinating disc finds Javier Perianes and flamenco singer Estrella Morente shedding new light on the influence of Spanish folksong on both Falla’s music and Lorca’s poetry. ![]()
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