Bewitching Love (Ballet Suite)
Regarding the complete ballet, Manuel de Falla allows the suppression of the “Song of Sorrowful Love”, six of the twelve chimes in the episode “Midnight”, the “Song of the Will-o’-the-Wisp” and the substitution of the singing passages in the “Dance of the Game of Love” and in the “Final” (The Bells of Dawn) with instruments.
Composition Dates
1925
Place and Date for Premier
Script
Duration
Musical Elements
2 flutes (piccolo), oboe (English horn), 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion, piano and strings.
Edition and Scores
Chester-Wise Music Group. The published score is the same as that of the ballet.