Scored for 3 trumpets • flugel horn in Bb • horn in F • 3 trombones • bass trombone • tuba

De Falla's 'Ritual Fire Dance' from the ballet 'El Amor Brujo' (Love the Magician), is probably his most popular work, made famous by the pianist Arthur Rubinstein (1887 - 1982), who used it as an encore. The composer, frustrated with Spanish musical life, had moved to Paris in 1907, rubbing shoulders with the city's finest musicians and absorbing new ideas, only returning to Spain at the outbreak of wa...