Piano Music Volume 5
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ISAAC ALBENIZ
Piano Music Volume 5
Juan José Mudarra Gámiz (piano)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 14 July 2014
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In the latest volume of this critically admired series, a number of rarely heard pieces from Albéniz's first compositional phase can be savoured. They were composed between 1881 and 1892 and reveal the variety and flair of which he was capable, even in the smallest of musical forms, such as the delicious mazurkas. The Siete estudios (Seven Studies) are no mere exercises - rather they fuse the colour of Iberian music with the rigour of Central European traditions. Les Saisons is an evocative portrait of the seasons and can be seen as a forerunner of the impressionistic writing that would soon appear in French music.
"All his performances are shot through with brilliance and conviction. And even in those piece which are over-extended and repetitious, his voltage and enthusiasm somehow carry the day." Gramophone Magazine, October 2014
Tracks:
Siete estudios en los tonos naturales mayores, Op. 65 (Seven Studies in the Natural Major Keys)
Les Saisons
Rapsodia Cubana, Op. 66
Suite antigua No. 1
