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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...

The evening begins with Manuel De Falla’s set of songs inspired by different parts of his home country of Spain, Siete Canciones Populares Españolas, with Daniela Mack as soloist and an arrangement of ...

Spanish composer Manuel de Falla’s opera “La Vida Breve” depicts the timeless themes of unrequited love and class inequality, and yet the hour-long work is rarely performed today in its entirety. On ...

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 ...

Duo pianists and sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque are one of the best known four-hand duos on the circuit today. We hear them play the Spanish Dance No. 1 from "La Vida Breve," ("The Short Life") by ...

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 ...

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 ...