This week's program focuses on the cross-pollination of musical ideas music from the mid-19^th to mid-20^th centuries between Spain and two of its former colonies: Cuba, a Spanish possession for almost 400 years, and the Philippines, a viceroyalty from the mid 16^th to early 19^th centuries. Habaneras, malagueñas. guajiras, valses, and danzas performed by Charisse Baldoria, Manilan pianist now living in the United States. This concert was recorded live at Noble Art Pianos in Easton Pennsylvania this past February.

This week’s program focuses on composers and siblings Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter. They were members of the Generación de '27 (the Generation of 1927), a Spanish vanguard of artists that included Picasso, Garcia Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí and Mompou.

The first program in our mini-series of concerts recorded live at the Manhattan school of Music's year long season of "Visiones: Music of Spain and Latin America." Music by Latin American composers, and all for the guitar! From Cuba’s Joaquín Nin and Leo Brouwer to Argentina’s Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov to Uruguay’s Alfonso Broqua. Join me , Candice Agree, for this week;s edition of "The Spanish Hour."

This week on The Spanish Hour we remember Alciia de Larrocha through her renowned recordings, and through performances and testimonials from producer David Frost and daughter Alicia Torra. Live performances by pianist Joaquín Achúcarro and guitarist Jorge Caballero. Recorded live in concert at a memorial held in October 2010 in New York City.

The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with five weekly programs focusing on the contributions of Latin American composers to classical music. This month of programs is part of the weekly series The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree, in production since 2010. Join us for a celebration of the genius of Mexican composer Manuel Ponce (1882-1948), featuring Mexican performers, including condutor Alondra de la Parra leading the Orchesra of the Americas and pianist Jorge Federico Osorio. Enjoy solo works for piano and guitar, as well as the acclaimed Concierto del Sur .

In the 19^th century, the guitar was still thought of as something heard at village fairs, an easy to strum instrument, meant for nothing more than to accompany popular songs, not a solo instrument to be applauded in the concert hall. Fernando Sor changed all that by creating a virtuosic repertory for the guitar which earned him the sobriquet "The Beethoven of the Guitar." Guitar solos, duets, and songs for voice and guitar, performed by Segovia, Starobin, and others.

Christmas Eve traditions from 17th-century Mexico, El Cant de la Sibil•la (El canto de la Sibilla or The Song of the Sybill,) a work of prophecy from 15th-century Valencia, and The Adoration, Part Four of Pablo Casals' oratorio El Pesebre (The Nativity or The Manger) in an historic recording conducted by Casals.

 One of the so-called "lost generation" of Spanish composers, first gaining wide-spread recognition in the 1940s, pianist, critic, and composer Xavier Montsalvatge was influenced by antillanismo, neo-Romanticism, and French impressionism, especially Ravel. This edition of The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree features his most famous work 5 canciones negras, plus works for string quartet, piano, as well as selections from the opera El Gato con botas (Puss in Boots)

Two works, each representative of the 20th century: Ardor , the violin concerto written in 1998 by José Luis Greco with Mariana Todorova as soloist, and the complete music to the 1919 ballet Three-Cornered Hat by Manuel de Falla, featuring Florence Quivar.

Sephardic romances of the Jews of mediaeval Spain, Spanish love songs by Catalan Enrique Granados, and a gypsy ballet of ghostly love by Manuel de Falla. Over 500 years of Love Iberian style.