Albéniz - Complete Piano Music, Volume 6 - BIS: BISCD1743 - CD or download

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Release Date: 1st Feb 2010
Catalogue No: BISCD1743
Label: BIS
Series: Miguel Baselga plays Albéniz Complete Piano Music
Length: 75 minutes

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Albéniz: Spanish Rhapsody, Op. 70

Work length11:36

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Miguel Baselga (piano)
Tenerife Symphony Orchestra
Jia Lu
Recorded: December 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorio y palacio de congresos, Zaragoza, Spain

Spanish Rhapsody, Op. 70

Track length11:36

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Albéniz: Navarra

Work length5:49

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Miguel Baselga (piano)
Recorded: December 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorio y palacio de congresos, Zaragoza, Spain

Albéniz: Sonata No. 5 in G flat major, Op, 82, (T.85)

Work length19:03

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Miguel Baselga (piano)
Recorded: December 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorio y palacio de congresos, Zaragoza, Spain

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length9:53

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II. Minuetto del Gallo

Track length1:59

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III. Reverie

Track length4:47

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IV. Allegro

Track length2:24

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Albéniz: Suite ancienne No. 3 (T.76)

Work length6:17

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Miguel Baselga (piano)
Recorded: December 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorio y palacio de congresos, Zaragoza, Spain

I. Minuetto

Track length2:51

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II. Gavotta

Track length3:26

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Albéniz: Azulejos (completed by E. Granados)

Work length7:12

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Miguel Baselga (piano)
Recorded: December 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorio y palacio de congresos, Zaragoza, Spain

Albéniz: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Concerto fantastico), Op. 78

Work length25:41

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Miguel Baselga (piano)
Tenerife Symphony Orchestra
Jia Lu
Recorded: July 2009
Recording Venue: Auditorio DE Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length12:01

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II. Reverie e Scherzo

Track length6:23

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III. Allegro

Track length7:17

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This series of the piano music of Isaac Albéniz has so far focussed on solo works - including, of course, the celebrated collection Iberia. For the sixth volume, Miguel Baselga has chosen to also record two works for piano and orchestra: the First Piano Concerto (Concierto fantástico), and Rapsodia Española. For the latter Albéniz scholar Jacinto Torres has prepared an edition of the composer's original orchestration. This is the first recording of the new edition, while earlier recordings have opted for arrangements by Enescu, Bretón and Cristóbal Halffter. The 'Fantastic Concerto' was written at the same time as the Rhapsody, and both are quite early works - from before the composer's departure in 1890 for London, and later Paris. The present disc also includes solo pieces from the same period, often showing the influence of Liszt, Chopin and Schumann. But Albéniz also liked to include Scarlatti sonatas in his own concert programmes. One result of his interest for earlier music was the three Suites anciennes, of which the third is included here, a two-movement work consisting of a gavotte and a minuet. Azulejos and Navarra come from the opposite end of the composer's career. Composed at the same time - and in a similar vein - as Iberia, both works were left uncompleted at the death of Albéniz in 1909. In the case of Azulejos, Miguel Baselga performs the familiar version completed by Enrique Granados, but for Navarra he has opted for a version made by the great Spanish pianist Pilar Bayona, which here is first heard on disc. This highly regarded series thus continues with a volume full of intriguing pieces of the enigmatic puzzle that is Isaac Albéniz. Besides an introduction to the music, in three languages, the booklet to this disc also contains an essay, in Spanish, by the distinguished Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina, looking back on the composer a full century after his death.

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