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Albéniz – Piano Music, Volume 6

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Catalogue numberBIS-1743 CD
Release date2009-12-26
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time75:43

This series of the piano music of Isaac Albéniz has so far focussed on solo works - including, of course, the celebrated collection Iberia. For the sixth volume, Miguel Baselga has chosen to also record two works for piano and orchestra: the First Piano Concerto (Concierto fantástico), and Rapsodia Española. For the latter Albéniz scholar Jacinto Torres has prepared an edition of the composer's original orchestration. This is the first recording of the new edition, while earlier recordings have opted for arrangements by Enescu, Bretón and Cristóbal Halffter. The 'Fantastic Concerto' was written at the same time as the Rhapsody, and both are quite early works - from before the composer's departure in 1890 for London, and later Paris. The present disc also includes solo pieces from the same period, often showing the influence of Liszt, Chopin and Schumann. But Albéniz also liked to include Scarlatti sonatas in his own concert programmes. One result of his interest for earlier music was the three Suites anciennes, of which the third is included here, a two-movement work consisting of a gavotte and a minuet. Azulejos and Navarra come from the opposite end of the composer's career. Composed at the same time - and in a similar vein - as Iberia, both works were left uncompleted at the death of Albéniz in 1909. In the case of Azulejos, Miguel Baselga performs the familiar version completed by Enrique Granados, but for Navarra he has opted for a version made by the great Spanish pianist Pilar Bayona, which here is first heard on disc. This highly regarded series thus continues with a volume full of intriguing pieces of the enigmatic puzzle that is Isaac Albéniz. Besides an introduction to the music, in three languages, the booklet to this disc also contains an essay, in Spanish, by the distinguished Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina, looking back on the composer a full century after his death.
 
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  Composer: Albéniz, Isaac
01 Rapsodia Española, T16 for piano and orchestra 11:21 $ 2.38 USD
 
02 Navarra, T106 05:42 $ 1.20 USD
 
  Piano Sonata No.5, T85 18:48
03 I. Allegro non troppo 09:49 $ 2.06 USD
04 II. Minuetto del Gallo. Allegro assai 01:57 $ 0.41 USD
05 III. Rêverie. Andante 04:45 $ 1.00 USD
06 IV. Allegro 02:17 $ 0.48 USD
 
  Troisième Suite ancienne, T76 06:09
07 I. Minuetto 02:49 $ 0.59 USD
08 II. Gavotta 03:20 $ 0.70 USD
 
09 Azulejos, T107 07:00 $ 1.47 USD
 
  Piano Concerto No.1, T17 ‘Concierto Fantástico’ 25:03
10 I. Allegro ma non troppo 11:56 $ 2.51 USD
11 II. Rêverie et scherzo. Andante – Presto 06:20 $ 1.33 USD
12 III. Allegro 06:47 $ 1.42 USD
 
  Album total 75:43
ComposerAlbéniz, Isaac
PianoBaselga, Miguel
OrchestraTenerife Symphony Orchestra
ConductorJia, Lü

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