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Granados: Goyescas - El pelele

Javier Perianes

Classical - Released December 1, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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The Goyescas of Enrique Granados are a suite of six pieces plus a seventh of similar inspiration, El pelele, that is often performed with the set (as here by pianist Javier Perianes). These are technically difficult pieces, surely among the heights of the Spanish piano repertory. The Goyescas were inspired by the art of Francisco Goya, but only two works -- the tenebrous "El amor y la muerte" and El pelele -- can be traced to specific Goya works. Both the performance by Javier Perianes and the excellent notes by Claire Fraysse illuminate why this is not the problem it might seem. Goya's paintings captured a whole milieu, forming a picture of what might be called hip Madrid society around 1800; both Goya and Granados, in Fraysse's works, were fin-de-siècle artists. Granados' pieces also have a stream-of-consciousness quality, seeming to tell a story even when the story is not there. It is this quality that is captured in Perianes' playing, which is not only technically confident but also moves forward as if animated by buried thoughts. Sample the second Goyesca, "Coloquio en la reja," which has the flavor of a conversation at the window, even if one does not know what is being talked about. If it wasn't based on an actual Goya painting, it could have been, as it were. Perianes is brilliant when he needs to be, but it is the small subtleties that put this performance across. There are plenty of performances of the Goyescas, many of them Spanish, going back to that of Alicia de Larrocha, but this one has what it takes to stand out.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Granados : Goyescas

Jean-Philippe Collard

Classical - Released January 17, 2020 | La Dolce Volta

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Granados: Goyescas, valses poéticos, Allegro de concierto & Zapateado

Xiayin Wang

Classical - Released February 1, 2018 | Chandos

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A pianist of keen musicality and sweeping virtuosity, Xiayin Wang returns to solo repertoire with this fascinating exploration of works by Enrique Granados, revealing a technically challenging and complex musical language, yet full of colour and emotional intensity. Perhaps because the source of their inspiration was so close to the composer’s heart, the Goyescas piano pieces are the most liberated examples of the genius of Granados. ‘I have written’, he said, without exaggeration, ‘a collection of great sweep and difficulty’, which Xiayin Wang addresses with complete mastery. Across the repertoire featured here, this album reveals the genius of Granados, a composer of wide contrast whose music deserves to be heard more often. While the brilliance of Granados as a composer of piano music in a more conventional idiom is convincingly exemplified in the Allegro de concierto and in Zapateado, inspired by Andalusian flamenco, the Ochos Valses poéticos are unique and uncharacteristic in that they are neither virtuosic in their piano scoring nor Spanish in style.© Chandos
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Granados: Goyescas, Op. 11

Viviana Lasaracina

Classical - Released May 21, 2021 | Dynamic

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There are dozens of active recordings of Enrique Granados' masterpiece Goyescas in the catalog, and the standard one by Alicia de Larrocha is still entirely viable, but this 2021 release by pianist Viviana Lasaracina has hit the charts, and it's easy to see why. The Goyescas (Pieces Inspired by Goya) tell a little love story; Granados specified paintings for only two of the seven movements, but the work is a bit like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. It has hints of flamenco and other Spanish folk forms, and its glittering ornamentation brings to mind Domenico Scarlatti. However, the major influence is Liszt, and it is by appreciating this that Lasaracina manages to stand out from the crowd. Her technical equipment in this score, one of the most difficult in the entire piano repertory, is superb, yet it is her way with the improvisatory quality of the music that brings it alive. Her playing is charismatic even with no physical presence of the pianist involved. Listen to the fourth goyesca, "Quejas, ó La Maja y el ruiseñor" ("Complaints, or The Girl and the Nightingale"), for a scene that will unroll before the listener's mind's eye (and bring out the relationship to the song Bésame mucho besides). Lasaracina closes the program with the Allegro concierto, Op. 46, a showpiece work that resolves the Goyescas' dreamlike atmosphere. The Dynamic label's rather closed-in studio sound doesn't fit the ambiance in which Granados, a great touring virtuoso, would have performed these pieces, but Lasaracina's precision and power come through undisturbed. An entirely absorbing recording of these pieces. © TiVo
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Enrique Granados : Goyescas - Valses poeticos

Luis Fernando Perez

Classical - Released November 22, 2011 | Mirare

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Granados: Goyescas

Alicia de Larrocha

Classical - Released January 1, 1977 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Granados Goyescas: Valses Poéticos

Luis Fernando Perez

Classical - Released November 22, 2011 | Mirare

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Enrique Granados – Goyescas

Kun-Woo Paik

Classical - Released September 18, 2022 | Universal Music Ltd.

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Alicia de Larrocha plays Granados

Alicia de Larrocha

Classical - Released April 28, 2017 | RCA Red Seal

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Messiaen : L'œuvre pour orgue, Vol. 1

Louis Thiry

Classical - Released March 1, 1972 | La Dolce Volta

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Les Chants de Noël du monde

Arsys Bourgogne

Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Released November 19, 2012 | naïve

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Rameau: Les Boréades

Václav Luks

Classical - Released September 11, 2020 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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1966-1968

Marie Laforêt

French Music - Released March 19, 2020 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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L'essentiel des albums studio

Michel Sardou

French Music - Released January 1, 2010 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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La symphonie des oiseaux

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released January 27, 2017 | Mirare

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Messiaen: Organ Works

Olivier Latry

Classical - Released January 1, 2002 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Le Concert royal de la Nuit

Ensemble Correspondances

Classical - Released September 3, 2015 | harmonia mundi

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37ème Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron

Iddo Bar-Shaï

Classical - Released July 14, 2017 | Mirare

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Granados: Goyescas

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Opera - Released May 24, 2019 | harmonia mundi

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A great admirer of the brilliant painter Francisco de Goya, who he saw as one of the most worthy representatives of the Spanish identity, Enrique Granadas composed a cycle of piano pieces in 1911, the Goyescas, in tribute to the Madrid painter. “I am enamored with the psychology of Goya,” writes Granados, “with his palette, with him, with his muse the Duchess of Alba… That whitish pink of the cheeks, contrasting with the blend of black velvet; those subterranean creatures, hands of mother-of-pearl and jasmine resting on jet trinkets, have possessed me.” Granados composed this short opera at the request of the Paris Opera, based on his own piano pieces, which he then orchestrated and expanded. The First World War jeopardized the project, and it was finally the Metropolitan Opera of New York that, with the approval of the Paris Opera, saw the creation of this rich opera in 1916, with elegant and refined writing. There is no trace of Andalusian or Arab-Andalusian music, but rather an inspiration from the culture and music of Madrid in the Goya era, between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. Granados develops a popular style by revitalizing historical models. Recorded live at a concert at the Barbican Center in London in January 2018, under the direction of Josep Pons, to whom we owe so many remarkable recordings of Spanish music, this pleasant opera benefits from an Iberian cast and an English orchestra, that of the BBC. Once again, the versatility of London's bands is to be applauded, as they are able to adapt to all styles with ease and virtuosity. © François Hudry/Qobuz

Bande Originale du film "Le Bal" (Ballando ballando - 1983)

Vladimir Cosma

Soundtracks - Released January 1, 1983 | Larghetto

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