Spanish Dances
CD
RRP £19.55 historic list price — see live Amazon pricing below
- Performers
- Torres Pardo
- Label
- Naxos Classics
- Barcode
- 9786305231103
Enrique Granados(1867-1916)12 Spanish Dances;StudyThe tragic death of Enrique Granados on 24th March, 1916, whilereturning to Spain, deprived the country of one of its most talented composers.The "Sussex", the ship he was travelling home on, was torpedoed by aGerman submarine between Folkestone and Dieppe, after the success in New York'sMetropolitan Opera House of his opera Goyescas. In fact, Granados andIsaac Albeniz, leading champions of nationalist and post-romantic currents,were responsible for launching Spanish music forward towards horizons ofunquestionable internationalism. Born in Lerida, on 27th June 1867, Granadosdied before his 49th birthday, at the height of his career.Goyescas is his masterpiece, in its original form for piano, which he lateradapted into an opera. The piano-writing of this work succeeds in condensing awhole style of composing music, and with it the composer achieves a series ofcharacteristic pictures, pure romanticism in the style of Chopin or Schumann,his favourite composers, impregnated with a touch of Madrid, reflecting theessence of pictures by Goya, whom he admired to the point of successfullycopying his paintings, because painting was another passion of EnriqueGranados.Another of his famous compositions is his collection of Danzasespanolas (Spanish dances), which is divided into four"notebooks", three pieces in each one of them, as with Albeniz'sSuite Iberia. The first one, bearing the title Galante, is a sortof bolero with a brilliant and
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Details
- 12 UK
- Granados, e.
- espanish
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