English language broadcast - 26/12/4

 Today's program features another chapter in the series "The Many Faces of Spain," this time on the American writer Washington Irving, who had the rare privilege of residing in the palace in the Alhambra in Granada for several months.  There, the splendors and ruins of what had been the last seat of power of the Moors in Spain, Irving found the inspiration for his Tales of the Alhambra.  And in honor of the Christmas holidays, we play a traditional Spanish villancico as well as "O Magnum Mysterium" by the great composer of the 16th century, Tomás Luis de Victoria.