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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.
1. Los Requiebros
2. Coloquio En La Reja, Duo De Amor
3. El Fandango De Candil
4. Quejas, Ó La Maja Y El Ruiseñor
5. El Amor Y La Muerte
6. Epilogo. Serenata Del Espectro
7. Zapateado
8. Introduction. Vivace Molto
9. No. 1. Melodico
10. No. 2. Tempo De Vals Noble
11. No. 3. Tempo De Vals Lento
12. No. 4. Allegro Humoristico
13. No. 5. Allegretto. Elegante
14. No. 6. Quasi Ad Libitum. Sentimental
15. No. 7. Vivo
16. No. 8. Presto
17. Valses Poéticos: Tempo De Valse
18. Allegro De Concierto in C-sharp Major, Op. 46 |
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