Granados: Goyescas

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This live recording from an accomplished BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Josep Pons reveals the opera to be really a work of two parts…The cast acquit themselves well, if not with persuasively... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 24th May 2019
Catalogue No: HMM902609
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 59 minutes

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Granados: Goyescas (opera)

Work length59:27

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José Antonio López (soloist), Lidia Vinyes Curtis (soloist), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (soloist), Gustavo Pena (soloist)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons

Cuadro 1, Escena 1: El pelele "Aquí como allá" (Majas)

Track length4:58

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Cuadro 1, Escena 2: La calesa "¡Esa chiquilla parece en sí llevar más sal" (Majos)

Track length3:19

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Cuadro 1, Escena 3: Los requiebros "El sitio y la hora son" (Rosario)

Track length4:39

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Cuadro 1, Escena 4: "Juntos iremos al baile" (Fernando)

Track length1:31

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Cuadro 1: Intermezzo

Track length5:29

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Cuadro 2, Escena 5: El baile del candil "Siempre fue lindo el pie" (Majos y Majas)

Track length4:21

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Cuadro 2, Escena 6: "Si lo que os trajo no fue la danza" (Paquiro)

Track length4:08

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Cuadro 2: "¡Qué cosas dice a veces un pie!" (Majos)

Track length3:09

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Cuadro 3: Interludio

Track length4:15

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Cuadro 3, Escena 7: La maja y el ruiseñor "¿Por qué entre sombras el ruiseñor" (Rosario)

Track length5:45

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Cuadro 3, Escena 8: Dúo de amor en la reja "¿Me esperas?" (Rosario, Fernando)

Track length7:26

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Cuadro 3, Escena 9: El amor y la muerte "¡Es un sueño!" (Rosario)

Track length10:27

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Enrique Granados' famous opera 'Goyescas', first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1916, derives from the piano suite premiered in Paris two years previously. At the head of a BBCSO in top form and a handpicked cast, Josep Pons clearly much enjoyed conducting this sparkling new production in London. Many scenes in the opera draw their inspiration directly from paintings by Goya, which listeners will also have the pleasure of discovering in the booklet of this rare and precious album.

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August 2019

This live recording from an accomplished BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Josep Pons reveals the opera to be really a work of two parts…The cast acquit themselves well, if not with persuasively fandango passion. Granados’s thick scoring sometimes clogs the action but, nonetheless, it’s in the sweeping orchestral interludes that he shines brightest here.

July 2019

This performance…is excellent in every respect. José Antonio López oozes braggadocio as the majo Paquiro…Fabiola Herrera sounds neither as youthful nor ingenuous as María Bayo…but her creamy tone suggests regal bearing and her entreaties in the love duet convey considerable ardour…The tight vibrato in Gustavo Pena’s upper register gives his voice an attractive glint and he phrases intelligently, playing effectively with light and shade…Pons wrings a fair amount of drama from the score.

May 2019

Recordings of Granados’s 1916 one-act opera are pretty thin on the ground, and Pons and his Hispanophone cast make a terrific case for it here: the flamenco-infused interludes crackle with dangerous energy, and Nancy Fabiola Herrara is magnificent as the heroine Rosario, particularly in the Act Three ‘nightingale’ aria which takes her into dramatic soprano territory.

23rd June 2019

The story of rivalry and vengeance set to a background of rough-edged colour provides a framework for deftly orchestrated music of passion, and Pons energises his forces with electrifying power.

6th June 2019

It’s the abundant choral writing and the colourful scoring that are the opera’s real attractions. Both come across vividly in Josep Pons’s energetic performance, and the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra are outstanding. Among the quartet of soloists, the soprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera is very much the centre of attention as the aristocratic Rosario.

Opera Now July 2019

Goyescas is a rather lovely piece, highlighting the chorus and orchestra, with a luscious palette of effects: Josep Pons conducts this live recording, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers excel themselves in creating Granados’ luxuriant sound- world. Of the soloists, Nancy Fabiola Herrera stands out for her languorous contribution to the long duet in the third scene.

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