Music director JoAnn Falletta leads the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in works by three French composers who saw Spain as a paradise of warmth, fragrance, and color, whether real or imagined. Debussy’s Images, Ibert’s Escales, and Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole show the considerable impact Spanish culture had on French composers in the early 20th century. “I have personally always been drawn to 20th century French repertoire, and the Buffalo Philharmonic has a gift for playing this music with an extraordinary sense of color, from the most subtle and muted to a blazing brilliance that paints a breath-taking landscape of sound.” –JoAnn Falletta