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Smetana and Falla
Garrick Ohlsson piano
Date
Mon 21 Nov 2016, 1.00pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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Artists

  • Garrick Ohlssonpiano

Programme

  • Bedřich Smetana
    1824-1884
      • Czech Dances I
        :
      • Polka in A minor
      • Czech Dances II
        :
      • Hulán (The Lancer)
      • Obkrocák (Stepping Dance)
      • Slepicka (The Little Hen)
      • Furiant
  • Manuel de Falla
    1876-1946
      • 4 piezas españolas
        :
      • Aragonesa
      • Cubana
      • Montañesa
      • Andaluza
      • Fantasia Baetica

Encore

  • Manuel de Falla
    1876-1946
      • El corregidor y la molinera Act 1 (from original version of The Three-Cornered Hat)
        :
      • Dance of the Miller's Wife

Overview

Smetana and Falla’s keyboard compositions harbourstrong flavours of the folk music of their respectivehomelands.

Garrick Ohlsson offers an exquisitelybalanced menu of pieces from Smetana’s secondbook of Czech Dances, written not long after thecomposer realised his deafness was incurable, andFalla’s Cuatro piezas españolas of 1906–09, keyworks in the revival of Spanish nationalism.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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