Gustavo Gimeno closes the OCV symphonic cycle with The Firebird, thus completing his direction of Stravinsky's famous trilogy of ballets at Les Arts. Previously, in the first part, The French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa will delight us with the Seven Popular Spanish Songs of Falla, preceded by Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole. The Firebird marked the beginning of Stravinsky's collaboration with the Diaghilev Ballets Russes company in Paris.. It marked the culmination of his youthful stage, still influenced by composers of her generation, especially his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov and the French impressionists - which can be seen in details such as the orchestral color and sensuality -, and the gestation of his style, with the flowering of harsh rhythms and the characteristic fragmented melodic motifs.
Maurice Ravel 1875 – 1937
Spanish rhapsody
Manuel de Falla 1876 – 1946 | Luciano Berio 1925 – 2003
Seven Spanish popular songs
Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
The fire bird
Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Valencian Community
