From the official Deutsche Grammophon Web site:
“With this recording, Plácido Domingo has drawn upon the origins of songs – the music of the street. Domingo and also the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, one of Europe’s up-and-coming ensembles, get chosen the popular song form of the copla which, along with zarzuela and flamenco, constitutes the three-pronged spear of recent Speaking spanish popular music. The copla, similar to its close relative, your cuplé, is music written by a new composer, but one who pulls so extensively on the people music tradition that his or her music merges with that convention and becomes indistinguishable from it. The great composers of Spanish coplas can say with every justification: “I feel folk music.”
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