Here’s a nice mix of Manuel de Falla’s original piano pieces and piano arrangements from orchestral works, well programmed, well recorded, and superbly played. Jason Cutmore’s idiomatic musicianship and excellent technique consistently delight. His subtle rhythmic inflections and diverse textural palette enliven the four excerpts from El Amor Brujo. The Fantasía Baetica’s unwieldy difficulties emerge with lilting clarity and breathing room, as do the guitar-like sonorities that the Homenaje in memory of Debussy evoke. Cutmore’s soaring, balletic shaping of three pieces from El Sombrero De Tres Picos and flexibly phrased, warm-toned Quatro Piezas Españolas grow more attractive with each rehearing. Although Jason Cutmore may not be well known, his artistic excellence here ought not go unnoticed. A first-rate release.
