When the San Francisco Opera announced its Beethoven & Falla concert earlier this year, the draw was obvious: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, perhaps the most recognizable work in all of classical music.

It’s easy to become a little obsessed with obscure, underrated music. You bang on and on about works which you’re convinced are masterpieces which no one ever seems to play. Which means that it’s also ...

Steven Osborne's solo Ravel anthology is among the best available, and it's good that he's now tackling the composer's two very different piano concertos. Not all pianists succeed in both. Osborne ...

The piece by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla that you're most likely to hear on piano doesn't feature at all on this CD of his piano music. The Ritual Fire Danceis not an original piano work, but an ...

For the last 20 years of his life, Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) seemed to have deserted music. In Granada, and later in Argentina, he passed his time in apparently unproductive ...