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Alma Espanola

Isabel Leonard (mezzo), Sharon Isbin (guitar)

Alma Espanola

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Voice and guitar may be a natural combination for the passions and colours of Spanish song, but rarely have they sounded as vivaciously, seductively idiomatic on disc…Isbin’s range of colour…masterfully...

Alma Espanola

Isabel Leonard (mezzo), Sharon Isbin (guitar)

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Awards:

Voice and guitar may be a natural combination for the passions and colours of Spanish song, but rarely have they sounded as vivaciously, seductively idiomatic on disc…Isbin’s range of colour…masterfully...

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ALMA ESPAÑOLA presents Grammy Award-winning singer Isabel Leonard alongside Grammy Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin in an all-Spanish recording for voice and guitar, including twelve arrangements by Ms. Isbin in premiere recordings. Duos by Federico García Lorca, Manuel de Falla, Xavier Montsalvatge, Agustín Lara and Joaquín Rodrigo, with guitar solos by Granados and Tárrega, are heard in performances that evoke the rich and magnificent tradition of Spain. The Philadelphia Inquirer described Leonard & Isbin's performance as 'Feasts of beautifully sculpted phrases... glimpses of heaven', and The New York Times referred to the 'Soulful depth' of their interpretations. The collaboration of Isabel Leonard and Sharon Isbin brings together one of today's brightest vocal stars, heard on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Paris Opera, with a guitar virtuoso acclaimed as 'the pre-eminent guitarist of our time'.

Contents and tracklist

No. 7, En el Café de Chinitas
Track length2:59
No. 5, Las Morillas de Jaén
Track length2:08
No. 1, Anda, Jaleo
Track length2:01
No. 5, Andaluza (Arr. for Guitar)
Track length5:36
No. 11, Romance de Don Boyso
Track length5:02
No. 10, Zorongo
Track length1:11
No. 8, Nana de Sevilla
Track length4:22
No. 13, La Tarara
Track length0:57
No. 4, Los Mozos de Monleón
Track length6:18
No. 6, Sevillanas del Siglo XVIII
Track length2:45
No. 1, El Paño Moruno
Track length1:22
No. 2, Seguidilla Murciana
Track length1:22
No. 3, Asturiana
Track length2:38
No. 4, Jota
Track length3:19
No. 5, Nana
Track length1:57
No. 6, Canción
Track length1:04
No. 7, Polo
Track length1:38
No. 5, Canto Negro
Track length1:17
No. 4, Canción de Cuna para Dormir a un Negrito
Track length2:42

Awards and reviews

  • Presto Editor's Choice
    August 2017

January 2018

Voice and guitar may be a natural combination for the passions and colours of Spanish song, but rarely have they sounded as vivaciously, seductively idiomatic on disc…Isbin’s range of colour…masterfully matches the twists and turns of Leonard’s bewitching voice…This is an absolute joy.

August 2017

Leonard's tangy lyric mezzo has just the right sort of smokiness in the middle and lower registers to bring these songs by Lorca, Granados, Falla, Rodrigo and Montsalvatge to smouldering life - an entrancing 'heure espagnol' indeed.
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