Classic talk: Triumph and tragedy - the music of Spain
(Independent.ie Music)

For feel-good factor, you can always depend on the music of Spain. It`s woven its spell over many a composer, a good number of them French - think of Bizet`s dazzling ­opera Carmen, the Symphonie Espagnole of Édouard Lalo, ­another from that part of the world, or the rhapsody that Emmanuel ­Chabrier entitled quite simply España.