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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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Carte Blanche

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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To celebrate his 60th birthday Decca Classics gave Jean-Yves Thibaudet "carte blanche" to choose a very personal selection of music he has never recorded before. Including Dario Marianelli commissioned Pride and Prejudice - Suite to build on 97m streams for Dawn, Thibaudet's own transcriptions of Disney's When You Wish Upon a Star and Barber's Adagio for Strings. © Decca Classics
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Flamencos: Falla, Granados & Albéniz

Rocio Márquez

Classical - Released November 11, 2022 | MarchVivo

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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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Lost Paradises

Jodyline Gallavardin

Classical - Released June 10, 2022 | Scala Music

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It's a revelation. Not one of those spectacular ones that leave you stunned like after a boxing match. No, Jodyline Gallavardin is not the type of person to go overboard, preferring to rely on her airy phrasing, her sense of resonance and her skilful understanding of the scores of Cowell, Sibelius, Granados and all the other composers in this programme. After all, her first album, Lost Paradise, was "intended as a refuge from the hustle and bustle of our times, from the pervasive noise." Her recital invites contemplation and relaxation. If there is a revelation then, it is gentle, bewitching, almost hypnotic. The pianist, who graduated in 2015 from the CNSMD in Lyon, has very quickly woven her web in the piano forest and emerges, charming and enchanting, on the French, Italian and Swedish stages. There is a certain audacity in opening this disc with the millennial, even archaic, outbursts of Cowell's Three Irish Legends. It takes a solid coherence of style to then branch off into Sibelius' sylvan walks (Five Trees Op.75) with such naturalness. Jodyline Gallavardin, a mark of immense talent, manages to bring together the worlds of seven composers, who are in fact very different, while maintaining a strong guideline, that of suspended time and dreamlike meditation. Under her fingers, Sibelius' pieces conjure up a magnificent pastoral universe of trees, streams and mossy rocks, while Amy Beach's Hermit Trush becomes a free and dreamy walk. As for Schubert, he has never been so romantic and languid. The pages of Granados, Séverac and Ravel that follow benefit from the same choice of treatment. Gallavardin combines the intelligent construction of the programme with a total dedication to the emotion contained in each of the works she performs here with the utmost sensitivity to offer us an album that has certainly not stolen its Qobuzissime. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz

Enrique Granados – Goyescas

Kun-Woo Paik

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

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Granados : Goyescas

Jean-Philippe Collard

Classical - Released January 17, 2020 | La Dolce Volta

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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

Jean-Marc Luisada

Solo Piano - Released January 1, 1992 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Heritages

Simon Ghraichy

Classical - Released February 17, 2017 | Deutsche Grammophon

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The Essentials: Works for Piano

Balázs Szokolay

Classical - Released April 8, 2016 | Unclassified

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Alicia de Larrocha plays Granados

Alicia de Larrocha

Classical - Released April 28, 2017 | RCA Red Seal

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Offenbach : La Périchole (Live)

Marc Minkowski

Classical - Released June 14, 2019 | Bru Zane

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Recordings of Offenbach's 1868 operetta La Périchole, here performed in an 1873 revision, have been rather uncommon. True, it doesn't contain any of the big Offenbach hits, and its Peruvian setting, with a variety of Spanish dances and chinoiserie standing in for whatever music might have been heard in colonial Peru, seems increasingly preposterous as time goes on. However, verisimilitude has never been a requirement in operetta, and this story of the titular street singer (who was an actual historical individual) pursued by a sleazy colonial administrator hits a lot of the bases. Anglophone listeners will note that Arthur Sullivan surely knew this music inside and out, and replicated the combination of limpid songs for the heroine and quite a few sharp narrative choruses. This production, recorded live in 2018 at the Festival Radio France Occitanie in Montpellier, is nothing fancy, but that is its charm. La Périchole is nicely sung by a mezzo-soprano with the delightful name of Aude Extrémo, who resists the temptation to ham it up (sample her drunk scene, "Ah, quel diner je viens de faire") and inhabits the role well. The large cast is consistent, and conductor Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, far from their Baroque origins, keep things moving in a lively way. One gets the sense that Offenbach would have been fully satisfied, and the recording is a must for any operetta fan.© TiVo
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La symphonie des oiseaux

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released January 27, 2017 | Mirare

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The Boesendorfer Sound

Carol Rosenberger

Classical - Released September 3, 2013 | Delos

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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