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Length: 68 minutes.
Multi-zone DVD compatible with all countries (NTSC and PAL)
In the first programme (Del llanto a la protesta, 1980), the Seville cantaor José Menese talks about his protest and social lyrics. He sings soleá and petenera.
The second programme (Los flamencólogos, 1971) is part of the series 'Rito y geografía del cante'. An extremely young cantaor appears alongside Diego Clavel with their teacher, the artist and lyricist Francisco Moreno Galván. They are in Puebla de Cazalla (Seville). They talk about their learning method, and they sing in ways that seek to maintain the purest forms of singing.
The third programme (José Menese) belongs to the series Autorretrato (Self-Portrait) from 1982, which gathers the most recent images from the Televisión española archives, such as those featuring him singing with the RTVE orchestra, directed by López Cobos, and accompanied by Enrique de Melchor.
This volume is finished off by Los Cantes del Campo (Songs from the Fields) from 1964. It is an exceptional programme from the series 'Flamenco, Antología del Cante y Baile'. The cameras capture images of labourers on a Roman plough singing old temporeras and cantes de trilla (threshing songs) that are part of the origins of flamenco. The programme includes forms ranging from jaberas to rondeñas, fandangos de Lucena, the Calesera (which has now disappeared) and serranas, sung by Varea, Bernardo el de los Lobitos and Rafael López Algora. The recording is finished by a Verdiales band.
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