Conducted by the Spanish conductor and composer Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (DRSO) performs El amor brujo, a ballet composed in 1914-1915 by Manuel de Falla to a libretto by Gregorio Martínez Sierra (6 May 1881 – 1 October 1947, the Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, and theater director).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMALVK_I8hE
El amor brujo literally means “Love, the Magician”. It also means “Spell-bound Love” or “The Bewitched Love”, sometimes translated as “Wedded by Witchcraft”. In 1924, Falla finished a transformation of El amor brujo into a one-act ‘ballet pantomímico’ (pantomimic ballet); it is in this version that the work is best known to this day.
There are 13 movements:
- Introducción y escena (Introduction and scene)
- En la cueva (In the cave)
- Canción del amor dolido (Song of suffering love)
- El aparecido (El espectro) (The apparition)
- Danza del terror (Dance of terror)
- El círculo mágico (Romance del pescador) (The magic circle)
- A media noche: los sortilegios
- Danza ritual del fuego (Ritual fire dance)
- Escena (Scene)
- Canción del fuego fatuo (Song of the will-o’-the-wisp)
- Pantomima (Pantomime)
- Danza del juego de amor (Dance of the game of love)
- Final – las campanas del amanecer (Finale – the bells of sunrise)
Sources
- El amor brujo on wikipedia
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