{"id":15118,"date":"2020-09-06T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=15118"},"modified":"2020-09-06T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T18:44:52","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-frances-quatuor-eclisses-play-manuel-de-fallas-finale-from-the-three-cornered-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-frances-quatuor-eclisses-play-manuel-de-fallas-finale-from-the-three-cornered-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: France’s Quatuor Eclisses Play Manuel de Falla’s Finale from ‘The Three Cornered Hat’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The French guitar quartet Quatuor Eclisses<\/a> (Gabriel Bianco, Arka\u00eftz Chambonnet, Pierre Leli\u00e8vre, and Benjamin Valette) has been around since 2012, building a solid reputation as a highly skilled and adventurous group that specializes in arranging piano and orchestral pieces for the group. In 2017 I reviewed their Pulse<\/a> album, which beautifully showed their range, and I’ve been hungry for more!<\/p>\n

Well, earlier this year they put out their fourth release, Evocaci\u00f3n<\/a><\/em> on the Ad Vitam<\/a> label, and once again it is triumph that really showcases the power of what a guitar quartet can do. This time out, they offer a program of Spanish music, so we find them interpreting two pieces by Alb\u00e9niz\u2014a remarkably tasteful, interesting, even spare version of Asturias<\/em>, plus Iberia: El Corpus Christi en Sevilla<\/em>); Torroba\u2014a wonderfully arranged Rafagas<\/u><\/em>; Manuel de Falla\u2014the suddenly ubiquitous but always intriguing Homenaje pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy<\/em> and the finale to Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat)<\/em>; two of Mompopu’s Chansons et danses<\/em> (Nos. 8 and 11); and two Spanish-style works by non-Spaniards\u2014Debussy\u2019s La soir\u00e8e dans Grenade<\/em> (from his Estampes<\/em>), and Luigi Boccherini\u2019s always-popular Grave assai et fandango<\/em> from his Quintette pour cordes et guitare no. 4<\/em>. It\u2019s a terrific, nicely recorded collection from beginning to end; highly recommended!<\/p>\n

Our video selection is from\u00a0 the aforementioned Three-Cornered Hat<\/em> ballet that Falla scored in in 1918 and 1919 (when it opened) at the behest of the noted early 20th century dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev. It was choreographed by L\u00e9onide Massine, with set and costume design by none other than Pablo Picasso. This piece is the finale of ballet, a jota<\/em>. \u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n

The album can be streamed on Spotify<\/a> and bought and\/or streamed on both Amazon<\/a> and\u00a0 iTunes\/Apple Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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