Mediterranean festivities, Italian and Spanish fairy tales, ballet music, farces, opera dramas and scenes. The programme of Fabula foletta features all of these.

Some dancing clowns appear in Ravel's composition Alborada del grazioso. Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major does not have a pre-set programme, but while listening to the work, we can still associate it with an emotional story with a positive ending. Casella's piece was originally a fairy-tale opera, and de Falla took one of his own ballets as the basis for his suites. All the compositions featured in the programme fit into the same tradition, but at the same time, they playfully, sometimes somewhat grotesquely, reflect their own era and show how humorous and serious content coexist in fables.