On 28 September 1939, a group of admirers gathered at the modest house in Granada of Manuel de Falla to wish wish him bon voyage. The pretext of his journey was a concert series in Buenos Aires, but ...

By the 1910s, Igor Stravinsky had established himself as the legendary composer of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The ...

March 28, 2011 • The new 103-CD Jascha Heifetz box set presents a vast trove of fantastic fiddling over a seven-decade career, from his first recording session as a teenager to his final recital in ...

A portrait of the life of the celebrated Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, whose final years were spent in Alta Gracia (Córdoba, Argentina). Mónica Galán plays a researcher whose thesis focuses on the ...

Jane Jones samples the warm evening breeze and the scent of jasmine and citrus trees in Manuel de Falla's great work. The idea of a night spent in a garden in Spain is an alluring one. Just imagine - ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Spanish composer and pianist Manuel de Falla - one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. Manuel de Falla was not well ...

Classical music has its heartlands, and its borderlands. Spain is definitely among the latter. Composers in countries such as Russia, Sweden and Britain often felt their marginal status as a kind of ...

When the San Francisco Opera announced its Beethoven & Falla concert earlier this year, the draw was obvious: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, perhaps the most recognizable work in all of classical music.

In the old days studying music meant an apprenticeship with an older master. Nowadays, most students just go to conservatories. But cellist Daniel Mueller-Schott got both. He tells the story of his ...

The West German Radio Symphony plays ballet music, but there isn't a tutu in sight. We join the orchestra, and conductor Josep Caballe-Domensch, in concert to hear the Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from The ...