Albeniz / Granados: Piano Concertos
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ISAAC ALBENIZ / ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Albeniz / Granados: Piano Concertos
Melani Mestre (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
[ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 65 / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 May 2015
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Volume 65 (have you got them all?) of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series journeys to Spain and the heart-on-sleeve world there to be found. The Albéniz Concierto fantástico owes much to Schumann and Chopin, albeit with an added drizzle of the Iberian peninsula; the perennially popular Rapsodia española, on the other hand, throws all such classical models to the wind.
Granados never actually got round to writing his piano concerto, so our pianist here-Hyperion debutant Melani Mestre-has done it for him. And it's a romp. The first movement is pretty much 'echt', from Granados' sketches for a putative piano concerto, but thereafter it's a hugely enjoyable what-if …
"The ebullience of [the Rapsodia española] is infectious in the playing of Melani Mestre, who has also done the speculative reconstruction of Granados's C minor Concerto...A sombre start, underlining Granados's adjective patético, has the stamp of originality and its romantic sweep breathes Spanish air." (Daily Telegraph)
"The chief interest lies in the Granados, solemn and declamatory in the first movement before leaving its C minor sense of elegy to recall two earlier 'Spanish Dances' and the composer's one unabashed showpiece, the 'Allegro de concierto'. Musical adventure could hardly go further. Impeccably recorded, all the performances by Melani Mestre and the BBC Scottish Orchestra [sic] under Martyn Brabbins are of an unfaltering fluency and stylistic command." (Gramophone)
Tracks:
Enrique Granados & Melani Mestre:
Piano Concerto in C minor 'Patético'
Albéniz:
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Concerto fantastico), Op. 78 (arr. Tomás Bretón)
Spanish Rhapsody, Op. 70
