Laurent Martin - Exaltación (Piano español del siglo XX) (2017)

At the end of the 19th century, Spanish music saw an exceptional blossoming in connection with the great French composers met in Paris, especially in the piano field. A few years later, Isaac Albéniz made a sensation with the famous Iberia collection comparable to the older masterpieces by Chopin, Schumann, Liszt or Brahms. Granados creates the twelve Spanish dances and the Goyescas, Manuel de Falla the Fantasia bética which sums up the Iberian genius, passion flaming, deep chant, rhythms endiablés, captivating melodies, haughty nobility and subterranean fire. Turina will be the continuator, and Mompou will draw his personal path of harmonic refinements, unheard sonorities and contained violence. Laurent Martin proposes here his own choice, long ripened by numerous stays beyond the Pyrenees, marked by the discovery of the popular roots of these fascinating and captivating sounds still present in today's Spain.

TRACKLIST

01. Iberia, libro I: El puerto
02. Iberia, libro III: El albaicín
03. Seis piezas sobre cantos populares españoles: V. Zambra
04. Seis piezas sobre cantos populares españoles: VI. Zapateado
05. Goyescas: IV. Quejas o la maja y el ruiseñor
06. Fantasia bética
07. 5 Danzas gitanas, Op. 55: V. Sacromonte
08. Danzas fantasticas, Op. 22: I. Exaltación
09. Trois variations
10. Charmes: I. Pour endormir la souffrance
11. Charmes: II. Pour pénétrer les âmes
12. Charmes: III. Pour inspirer l’amour
13. Charmes: IV. Pour les guérisons
14. Charmes: V. Pour évoquer l’image du passé
15. Charmes: VI. Pour appeler la joie
16. Tres evocaciones: II. Noche en el Guadalquivir