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. 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.
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