Harmonia Mundi, 2024
The three works on this CD—all of them dating from the 1920ies and neoclassical
in style—transport us to the world of the Commedia dell'Arte, Don Quixote and
fifteenth-century Spain. With a fine sense of tone painting, color, rhythm, and
humour, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Benjamin Alard—on a magnificent Pleyel
harpsichord—invite you to a cheerful firework display. Recorded in the year 2023, a hundred years after the premiere of de Falla's puppet opera "El retablo de maese Pedro", this is the MCO's second
CD under the direction of Pablo
Heras-Casado ("El sombrero de tres Picos", also by Manuel de Falla, was released by harmonia mundi in 2019)
MANUEL DE FALLA (1867 - 1946) El retablo de maese Pedro, Harpsichord
Concerto
IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882 - 1971) Pulcinella Suite
Airam Hernández Tenor (Maese Pedro)
José Antonio López Bass-baritone (Don Quixote)
Héctor
López de Ayala Uribe soprano (El Trujamán)
Benjamin
Alard harpsichord
Mahler
Chamber Orchestra
Pablo
Heras-Casado Conductor