Granados - Piano Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96228
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th April 2021
Contents
Works
Allegro de concierto, op.46Danzas espanolas (12)
Escenas romanticas
Valses poeticos (8)
Artists
Pablo Matias Becerra (piano)Works
Allegro de concierto, op.46Danzas espanolas (12)
Escenas romanticas
Valses poeticos (8)
Artists
Pablo Matias Becerra (piano)About
Valses poeticos, Escenas románticos: translate them into French or German, play them blind, and you may hear the cosmopolitan nature of Granados’s inspiration. Chopin is there, obviously, Grieg too; more influential was Schumann, not least in the ways that literary and poetic ideas shape informal musical structures. The Valses are a youthful work of great beauty; the Allegro de concierto, by contrast, was crafted as an ebullient, taxing display of his own formidable technique.
Granados was ‘a born pianist’, claimed Pablo Casals: ‘music simply poured out of him’. While a performing tradition for this music has grown up around the recordings of Alicia de Larrocha, she herself remembered the improvisational quality of its invention. The composer’s foremost student was Frank Marshall, who told de Larrocha how he was page-turning for Granados at a recital. The piece was ‘El Pelele’ from Goyescas, and all went well until the third page, when Marshall saw with amazement that what Granados was playing had nothing to do with what was written. So he ceased turning pages, while the composer played ‘a totally new and brilliant ‘Pelele’.
Belgian pianist Pablo Matías Becerra grew up in a family of musicians with their roots in the culture of Argentina. A former student of the legendary pedagogue Rena Shereshevskaya at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, he has established a fast-moving career in solo and chamber music, including as the pianist of a tango trio. Shereshevskaya proclaims him as ‘An extremely talented pianist with the promise of a bright future.’
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