Jean-Francois Dichamp - Granados: Goyescas, an Opera for Piano (2019) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Goyescas I. Los requiebros - The Compliments
02. Goyescas II. Coloquio en la Reja - Conversation at the Window
03. Sonata in E-Flat Major, K.193
04. Goyescas III. El Fandango de Candil - Fandango by Candlelight
05. Sonata in D Minor, K.141
06. Sonata No. 21 in C-Sharp Minor
07. Goyescas IV. Quejas, o la maja y el ruisenor - Complaint, or the Girl and the Nightingale
08. Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, K.25
09. Goyescas V. El Amor y la muerte - Ballad of Love and Death
10. Sonata in G Minor, K.8
11. Goyescas VI. Epilogo. Serenata del espectro - Epilogue. Serenade to a Spectre
12. Sonata in E Minor, K.198


In his piano suite Goyescas Spanish composer Enrique Granados was inspired by paintings by Goya, each painting telling its own story, and together forming one continuous tale, an fictional opera (in fact he wrote this actual opera with the title Goyescas, rarely performed nowadays).

The Goyescas are one of Spain’s most important and indeed iconic piano suites (together with the Iberia suite by Albeniz), its full blooded Romanticism is infused with the sounds, rhythms and perfumes of Granados’ native country Spain.

French pianist Jean-François Dichamp intersperses the Goyescas suite with several sonatas by Scarlatti and Soler, works which, though separated some 150 years, share the same Andalusian spirit.

Jean-François Dichamp was a student of Nikita Magaloff and Maria Curcio (a Schnabel student). “A very sensitive artist”(The Times), “A pianist of great delicacy, subtle and elegant” (Le Monde de la Musique), “His Chopin is at once thorough and profound” (Diapason).

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