First work a gitaneria in 2 parts, performed in the original 1915 version, the 2nd is a chamber opera. "The 1915 version of El amor brujo is a stage work with sung and spoken parts, numerous dances and much more music than usual in a zarzuela of the "género chico" ... [the instrumentation is] flute (and piccolo), oboe, horn, cornet, piano, string quintet, with percussion in the final number--15 instruments in all"--Notes, p. 12.
Librettos by Gregorio & María Martínez Sierra (1st work), by the composer after an episode in Cervantes' Don Quixote (2nd work).
Eds. recorded: J.& W. Chester. The 1915 original version of the first work arr. by Antonio Gallego from sketches by the composer.
Compact disc.
Durations: 37 min.; 28 min.
Program notes by Antonio Gallego and Spanish vocal texts with French, English & German translations inserted in container.
Recorded Nov. 1990 in Barcelona.