Manuel de Falla - Siete Canciones Populares Españolas for Mezzo-soprano & Guitar (Score video)

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Siete canciones populares españolas ("Seven Spanish Folksongs") is a 1914 set of traditional Spanish songs arranged for soprano and piano by the composer Manuel de Falla. Besides being Falla's most-arranged composition and one of his most popular, it is one of the most frequently performed sets of Spanish-language art songs. The set was dedicated to Madame Ida Godebska.

The styles and provenance of the songs are strikingly diverse. They are from different parts of Spain: an asturiana is from Asturias, in the north; the seguidilla, a type of flamenco, from Murcia, in the southeast, "Jota" is from Aragón in the northeast. "Nana" is a lullaby, and "Polo" a wild desire for revenge on an unfaithful lover. All the texts deal with love and the courting process, whether playfully, seriously, or tragically.

0:00 El Paño Moruno
1:11 Seguidilla Murciana
2:30 Asturiana
4:57 Jota
8:21 Nana
9:43 Canción
10:43 Polo

They have been arranged for guitar by Miguel Llobet and for orchestra by Luciano Berio. Falla and Paul Kochanski arranged six of the songs (omitting No. 2 and changing the order) for violin as Suite populaire espagnole. They inspired a similar folksong collection by Falla's friend and collaborator Federico García Lorca.

Mezzo-soprano : Shai Terry
Guitar: Ruben Seroussi

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