Spanish Music
(CONSTANT LAMBERT once suggested that Spanish music was really invented by the Russian composer Glinka. As a judgment on modern Spanish composers-De Falla particularlythis can hardly pass. But it serves to point the curious fact that Glinka helped to sanction a "Spanish" music for French and Russian composers like RimskyKorsakov, Ravel (hardly a fair example, being half-Basque), Chabrier and Debussy. Having in mind such a work as Debussy’s Iberia, it can scarcely be denied that it is music in its own right; and it must be about the only case where what should be pastiche turns out to be a genuine art-form. Listening to a programme of Turina (from 1YC), it was almost as if the native composer were less "Spanish" than Debussy or Ravel. It was music that glided easily in one ear and out the other, very different from the programme of Spanish folksongs which preceded. The interpretation of Victoria de los Angeles had admirable scope and feeling, and the guitar playing of Renata Tarrago was interesting, though less brilliant in effect than the wonderful Selmer disc which Owen Jensen enabled us to hear a few weeks
ago.
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 10
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194Spanish Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 10
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