Alicia de Larrocha - Enrique Granados: Goyescas (1977) [Re-Up]

Posted By: Designol

Date: 24 Apr 2019 14:33:17

Alicia de Larrocha - Enrique Granados: Goyescas (1977) [Re-Up]

Alicia de Larrocha has been playing these works, the greatest in the repertoire of Spanish piano music, all her life – one of her very first recordings, 40 years ago, was of some of the Goyescas, and I had the pleasure of welcoming her first Iberia ten years after that (10/65); and immersed as she was from her earliest childhood in the authentic tradition (her mother, her aunt and she herself were all trained at Granados’s own school, of which she later became director), she has several times been asked to re-record them. She once said, rather wistfully, that she didn’t consider herself a specialist but that Spanish music was what the public constantly demanded of her. One can sympathize with her if she feels inescapably cast in this mould – but then she shouldn’t be so wonderfully persuasive in it!

She employs plenty of subtle rubato but possesses the ability to make it sound as natural as breathing; yet she can also preserve a stimulating tautness of rhythm. In the true sense of that much-misused word, this is classical playing, free from any superimposed striving for effect but responding fully to the music’s sense of colour; and even in the densest of textures she is able to control conflicting tonal levels. Goyescas, which can tempt the unwary into exaggerated ‘expressiveness’, brings forth a wealth of poetic nuance, without losing shape – as for instance in the splendid “El amor y la muerte”. The recorded quality throughout always was good and here emerges as fresh as ever.

Review by Lionel Salter, Gramophone

Enrique Granados at Allmusic
Enrique Granados at Wiki

Alicia de Larrocha at Allmusic
Alicia de Larrocha at Wiki

Recording Location: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, December 1976

Tracklist:

Los majos enamorados - Part I
01. 1. Los requiebros (08:46)
02. 2. Coloquio en la reja (11:19)
03. 3. El fandango de candil (05:34)
04. 4. Quejas, o la maja y el ruiseñor (06:41)
Los majos enamorados - Part II
05. 5. El amor y la muerte (12:20)
06. 6. Epilogo, o Serenata del espectro (07:40)
07. El Pelele (04:30)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 3. November 2016, 9:49

Granados, Enrique / Goyescas - Alicia de Larrocha

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DR log

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Analyzed: Granados, Enrique / Goyescas - Alicia de Larrocha
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Official DR value: DR14

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All thanks to original releaser - quivive

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