Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba - Blancafort: Complete Songs, Vol. 2 (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 1, Cançó del vent gronxant les branques
02. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 2, Cançó dalt del cingle
03. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 3, Canço de l'hivern
04. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 4, Cançó de l'adéu
05. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 5, Cançó de l'arribada al cim
06. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 6, Cançó de la tarda morint
07. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 7, Cançó d'enyorança
08. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 8, Cançó del silenci del capvespre
09. Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 9, Cançó del matí lluminós
10. Cançons per a infants: No. 1, S'ha perdut un anell (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba)
11. Cançons per a infants: No. 2, Cant per anar a la guerra (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba)
12. Cançons per a infants: No. 3, El bon Jesuset (Version for Voice & Piano)
13. ¡Ojalá!
14. Remembrances (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba)
15. Cançons tradicionals catalanes (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 4, Muntanyes regalades
16. Cançons tradicionals catalanes (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 5, Rossinyol que vas a França
17. Cançons tradicionals catalanes (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 3, Senyora Isabel
18. Cançons tradicionals catalanes (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 1, El mal ric
19. Cançons tradicionals catalanes (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba): No. 2, La filla del Carmesí
20. Camí barrat
21. Serenata a l'infant
22. L'aire del Montseny
23. El torrent
25. Romanç del goig de tenir germana
26. Preguntes melangioses
27. Motiu de cançó

Manuel Blancafort’s music has a concise tonal directness that draws on his fondness for French composers. His Cançons are not simply evocative but embody an increasing use of the Noucentist aesthetic: the Catalan cultural movement of the early 20th century that was a reaction against Modernisme. Blancafort rejected the Romanticism and Wagnerian pathos of the modernist Lied in favour of Classicism and beauty – sentiments he shared with his Catalan contemporaries Toldrà, Gerhard and Mompou. Intimate, sensitive and playful, his Catalan songs connect both to his country’s past and also to a wider European musical culture.

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