Xiayin Wang - Granados: Goyescas, Allegro de concierto, Valses poéticos & Zapateado (2018) [Hi-Res]

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01. Goyescas: No. 1, Los requiebros
02. Goyescas: No. 2, Coloquio en la reja, duo de amor
03. Goyescas: No. 3, El fandango de candil
04. Goyescas: No. 4, Quejas, ó la maja y el ruiseñor
05. Goyescas, Book 2: No. 5, El amor y la muerte
06. Goyescas, Book 2: No. 6, Epilogo. Serenata del espectro
07. 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles: No. 6, Zapateado
08. Valses poéticos: Introduction. Vivace molto
09. Valses poéticos: No. 1, Melodico
10. Valses poéticos: No. 2, Tempo de vals noble
11. Valses poéticos: No. 3, Tempo de vals lento
12. Valses poéticos: No. 4, Allegro humoristico
13. Valses poéticos: No. 5, Allegretto. Elegante
14. Valses poéticos: No. 6, Quasi ad libitum. Sentimental
15. Valses poéticos: No. 7, Vivo
16. Valses poéticos: No. 8, Presto
17. Valses poéticos: Tempo de valse
18. Allegro de concierto, Op. 46

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.

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