PLACIDO DOMINGO

Pasion Española

 

1. JUAN MOSTAZO MORALES (1903–1938) -  Falsa moneda

2. MANUEL FONT DE ANTA (1889–1936) - La Cruz de Mayo

3. JUAN MOSTAZO MORALES - La bien pagá

4. GENARO MONREAL LACOSTA (1894–1974)- Porque te quiero

5. JUAN MOSTAZO MORALES - El día que nací yo

6. MANUEL LÓPEZ-QUIROGA Y MIQUEL (1899–1988) - ¡Ay, Maricruz!

7. MANUEL LÓPEZ-QUIROGA Y MIQUEL - Me embrujaste

8. GENARO MONREAL LACOSTA - Cariño verdá

9. MANUEL LÓPEZ-QUIROGA Y MIQUEL - Te lo juro yo

10. ¡No me quieras tanto!

11. JUAN MOSTAZO MORALES / FRANCISCO MERENCIANO BOSCH (*1969) - Antonio Vargas Heredia

12. MANUEL LÓPEZ-QUIROGA Y MIQUEL - Ojos verdes

13. ANTONIO ÁLVAREZ ALONSO (1867–1903) - Suspiros de España

 

Plácido Domingo - tenor

Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid / Miguel Roa

 

One of Plácido Domingo’s most personal albums to date as he performs coplas, the traditional popular songs of Hispanic origin with which he grew up

 

Coplas express melodramatic, amorous sentiments, relate humorous incidents, historical events or comment on everyday life. In Spain the genre had a boom in the 1930s when many composers of popular songs and light classical music contributed to the tradition with art songs

 

Domingo has made a personal selection of coplas – he describes them as “mini operas” – and recorded them in Madrid with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid under Miguel Roa

 

All songs have been newly arranged – the result is this revival of a beautiful, nostalgic genre

 

DG 4776590