Manuel de Falla Photo: By A(lfonso) Ciarán (La ilustración española y americana) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Suite Populaire Espagnole is by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla.
He published six of his Seven Popular Spanish Songs of 1914 in a setting for violin and piano. This arrangement for cello and piano is by Maurice Maréchal.
The six songs are: El paño moruno, Asturiana, Jota, Nana, Canción and Polo. The one called Nana is an arrangement of an old Andalusian lullaby that Falla’s mother sang to him as a young child.
Inbal Megiddo (cello) and Jian Liu (piano)
Recorded 1 May 2016, St Andrew's on the Terrace, Wellington by RNZ Concert.
Engineer: Graham Kennedy
