Falla - Siete Canciones Populares Españolas; Concerto; El Gran Teatro Del Mundo - Victoria De Los Angeles, Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure, dir. Josep Pons / Harmonia Mundi Audio CD 1993 / HMC 901432

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Siete canciones populares españolas ("Seven Spanish Folksongs") is a 1914 set of traditional Spanish songs arranged for soprano and piano by the composer Manuel de Falla. Besides being Falla's most-arranged composition and one of his most popular, it is one of the most frequently performed sets of Spanish-language art songs.

The set was dedicated to Madame Ida Godebska, a patron of music who Falla met while living in Paris. Falla returned to Spain in 1914 and in January the following year the work was premiered at the Ateneo in Madrid by Luisa Vela with Falla at the piano. Luisa Vela was a well known zarzuela singer of the time who had sung in the Spanish premiere of La vida breve the previous year.

The styles and provenance of the songs are strikingly diverse. They are from different parts of Spain: an asturiana is from Asturias, in the north; the seguidilla, a type of flamenco, from Murcia, in the southeast, "Jota" is from Aragón in the northeast.

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