Granados: Piano Works
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ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: Piano Works
Xiayin Wang (piano)
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 February 2018
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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. 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.
"Both books of Goyescas (1909-12) , as their subtitle 'o Los majos enamorados' suggests, are essentially sensual and/or passionate love poems, something that Xiayin Wang conveys with sensitivity and obvious affection…'Zapateado' and the Allegro de concierto [are] both exhilarating and exuberant, making one regret the fact that more pianists don't programme Granados, and exuding an infectious spontaneity more consistently in evidence than elsewhere." Gramophone
"There is a beautifully natural flow to Wang's playing and she catches the spirit of youthful Spanish ardour very nicely. In her hands, Allegro de concierto sounds like a prize-winning piece...Chandos' marvellous sound has depth and clarity that places this disc at the top of the pile technically, though de Larrocha's Goyescas still retains primacy." Classical Music
Tracks:
Goyescas
1. Los requiebros (The Greetings).
Goyescas
2. Coloquio en la reja, duo de amor (Conversation at the Grille, Love Duet)
3 El fandango de candil. (Fandango by Candlelight).
4. Quejas, ó La maja y el ruiseñor (Lament, or the maja and the Nightingale).
5. El amor y la muerte: Balada (Love and Death: a Ballad).
6. Epilogo: Serenata del espectro (Epilogue: Serenade of the Ghost)
7 Zapateado
Ochos valses poéticos
8 [Introducción.]
9 Ochos valses poéticos 1. Melodioso
10 Ochos valses poéticos 2. Tempo de Valse noble
11 Ochos valses poéticos 3. Tempo de Valse lente
12 Ochos valses poéticos 4. Allegro umoristico
13 Ochos valses poéticos 5. Allegretto
14 Ochos valses poéticos 6. Quasi ad libitum
15 Ochos valses poéticos 7. Vivo
16 Ochos valses poéticos 8. Presto - Vivace - A tempo - Vivace - A tempo - Andante
17 Ochos valses poéticos Tempo de Valse
18 Allegro de concierto, Op.46
