Three-Cornered Hat & Nights In the Garden of Spain

Alejandra Gómez Ordaz (mezzo soprano), Jorge Federico Osorio (piano) & Orchestra of the Americas, Carlos Miguel Prieto

Following its acclaimed Linn debut recording, Copland & Chávez: Pan-American Reflections, The Orchestra of the Americas releases its sophomore album with Carlos Miguel Prieto. Prieto is joined by fellow Mexican and celebrated pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, who brings his superb musicianship, powerful technique, vibrant imagination and deep passion to this all-Spanish programme.

Osorio is the soloist in Falla's highly atmospheric piano concerto, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, a set of symphonic impressions which conjures up the enticing sounds and scents of a summer's evening. Conductor and pianist received critical acclaim following their performance of this work in Ireland: Prieto elicited a diaphanous palette of colours [and] as Osorio's arpeggios shimmered up and down the piano we were magnetically drawn into this highly evocative world full of lush sounds and sensuous possibilities.

Falla's finely crafted masterpiece The Three-Cornered Hat is both vibrant and colourful and showcases the superb precision of The Orchestra of the Americas. The programme is completed by the Interlude & Dance from Falla's La vida breve and the Intermezzo from Granados exquisite Goyescas.

Falla:
 El sombrero de tres picos
 La vida breve: Interlude & Dance 
 Noches en los jardines de España

Granados:
 Goyescas (opera): Intermezzo