Víctor Pablo Pérez conducted the premiere of Bric à Brac, Montsalvatge's last orchestral score, in 1993, so its inclusion in his overview of the maverick Catalan's work for Naxos's Spanish Classics series was perhaps inevitable. With its closing neo-classical gallop seemingly at odds with the impressionistic opening movements, it's not his best piece, and you get a greater sense of Montsalvatge's range from its two companions. They're poles apart in style. The 1983 Simfonia de Rèquiem for  soprano, strings, brass and percussion confronts mortality with austere resignation. The 1945 ballet Manfred, however, impudently reimagines Byron's gloomily iconic verse drama in postmodern terms with impish reminiscences of Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Delibes and Stravinsky. The performances are admirably clear-textured: the Barcelona Symphony, as one might expect, have this music in their systems.