De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Piano Works – review

Perianes/BBCSO/Pons (Harmonia Mundi)Ambivalent, it would seem, about the piano, Manuel de Falla once famously told a journalist: "Virtuosity, with its concert tours, has always repelled me." His output for the instrument, with or without orchestra, was small, and his mature piano works easily fit on to a single disc, leaving enough space for Javier Perianes to add a generous selection of early pieces. Pride of place inevitably goes to Nights in the Gardens of Spain, which Perianes dispatches wit...

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