Falla, Manuel de - Piano Music Vol. 2 - Ligorio, Daniel
• This is Volume 2 of the first recording of Falla’s complete piano music, including juvenilia and all his piano transcriptions of his own orchestral works, as well as pieces written expressly for the instrument. This disc completes the series.
• The early compositions included here, Cancíon, Vals-Capricho, Cortejo de los gnomos and Mazurca, are clearly the work of an exceptional student, although they are written very much in a Romantic vein which Falla would later abandon, in favour of the overt nationalism that marks his mature work.
• For the Suite from El sombrero de tres picos (The Three Cornered Hat), Daniel Ligorio has edited the composer’s sketches and unfinished transcription in order to achieve an effect closer to the orchestral version.
• Daniel Ligorio was referred to as a “sterling soloist” by Classical CD Review when they reviewed a previous release, Naxos 8.557101.
Daniel Ligorio, piano
Manuel de Falla
1. Cancion (Song)
2. Cortejo de gnomos (Cortege of Gnomes)
3. Vals-capricho
4. Canto de los remeros del Volga (Song of the Volga Boatmen)
5. Mazurka
6. Fantasia baetica
La vida breve, Act II: Danse espagnoles Nos. 1 and 2 (arr. piano)
7. Danse espagnole No. 1
8. Danse espagnole No. 2
El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-cornered Hat) (excerpts) (arr. piano)
9. Danza de la molinera (Dance of the Miller's Wife)
10. Danza de los vecinos (Dance of the Neighbours)
11. Danza del molinero (Dance of the Miller)
12. Danza del corregidor (Dance of the Corregidor)
13. Danza final (Jota) (Final Dance (Jota))