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The Three-Cornered Hat (André Previn recording)
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The Three-Cornered Hat is a 42-minute classical studio album in which the operatic mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under André Previn perform Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat and the Ritual Fire Dance from his ballet Love the Magician. It was released in 1983. Recording The album was an early example of digital recording. Packaging Apart from minor differences in lettering, the covers of the LP, cassette and CD versions of the album are all the same, and were designed and illustrated by Chris Verschoor. In August 1984, Greenfield revisited the album in Gramophone when it was issued on CD. Previn's crisp and rhythmic account of the Falla ballet, he wrote. brought out the Stravinskian associations, effectively so, but in most ways his version had to yield before the outstanding warm and evocative reading from Dutoit (Decca CD 410 008-2), not least in recorded sound. In a way the relative closeness and dryness of the Pittsburgh sound suited the reading, but it was hard to justify the face-to-face immediacy of Frederica von Stade at the very start, where the singer sounded closer than the orchestra. One minor advantage of the Previn version was that ten tracks were indexed for the ballet instead of only two on Decca. CD track listing and on cassette (catalogue number 7337 281). In 1984, Philips issued the album on CD (catalogue number 411 046-2) with a 12-page insert booklet lacking texts or translations but providing notes by Gerald Norris in English, French and German.<ref name=cd/> See Also
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