"Falla has fallen from fashion in recent years, but with this magnificent recording pianist Garrick Ohlsson shows exactly why the composer deserves urgent rehabilitation. Transcriptions from the ballets The Three-cornered Hat and Love, the Magician take centre stage, arranged by Falla himself. Ohlsson's playing is beautifully voiced and balanced, evoking an orchestra in full flood and with an unerring and irresistible sense of rhythm. His feel for the pacing of rubato, or the way he can finish a piece with a gentle flourish, suggests the perfecting curl of ribbon on an ideal package"

"Ohlsson may not inhabit Manuel de Falla's sultry and exuberant piano-writing as Alicia de Larrocha or Javier Perianes do, yet he embraces the idiom with ease and fluidity, and leaves few small details unnoticed ... Ohlsson holds the large-scale Fantasia Baetica quite well, with a kean ear for dynamic contrast and uncovering inner voices within thicker textures"