Morales De Anta Lacosta Miquel Alonso: Assorted Coplas. (Spanish Songs Of Love Death Jeal

Morales De Anta Lacosta Miquel Alonso: Assorted Coplas. (Spanish Songs Of Love Death Jeal

• DOMINGO PLACIDO PASION ESPAÑOLA

This is one of Plácido Domingo s most personal albums to date,<br>as he performs coplas, the traditional popular songs of Hispanic<br>origin with which he grew up.<br>Coplas express drama, profess love, impart humor, describe history<br>or just comment on everyday life. In Spain the genre had a boom in<br>the 1930s, when many composers of popular songs and light classical<br>music contributed to the tradition with art songs.<br>Domingo has made a personal selection of coplas he describes them<br>as mini operas and recorded them in Madrid with the Orquesta de la<br>Comunidad de Madrid under Miguel Roa. With splendid new arrangements,<br>this recording revives a beautiful, nostalgic genre.<br>Pasión Española will be DG s priority Hispanic project for 2008 the must-have<br>album for all lovers of Domingo s art as well as for Spanish and Latin-American<br>people all over the world.