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Falla: The Three Cornered Hat; La Vida Breve, Introduction and Dance.(Sound recording review)
Falla: The Three Cornered Hat; La Vida Breve, Introduction and Dance. Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. LIM XR24 014.
Manuel Maria de Falla y Matheu's ballet The Three Cornered Hat, a lighthearted tale of attempted seduction, contains some of the most colorful music you'll find coming out of Spain, and Ernest's Ansermet's 1961 Decca recording of it contains probably the best all-around performance and sound the music has ever received. This is not surprising, as Ansermet premiered the work in 1919, and Decca was at the time at the peak of its prowess.
The recording has been an audiophile favorite since the very beginning, but my trouble was, I hadn't heard it in many years, my one and only experience with it being on vinyl at a friend's house, where I thought it sounded hard and glassy. Now I discover it was most likely more the stereo system's fault than the recording's, because this new LIM XRCD/24 remastering shows it to be splendid.
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