Browse: Mompou - Música callada I-XXVIII - Books 1-4

Hough is the ideal guide. He wholly inhabits the music’s mystical atmosphere, its holy simplicity. Exquisite sensitivity is matched by a steely strength. Sounds coalesce and insist on their presence,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

All four books are played by Jordi Masó with an admirable delicacy and commitment. The sound of this distinctive, thought-provoking issue is more than acceptable. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2002 More…

Mompou's Musica callada...requires a special evocative power and contemplative intimacy, and pianist Javier Perianes is marvellously engaging and beautifully recorded. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Listening to this disc is rather like entering a retreat. There's a rapt, contemplative atmosphere around these 28 miniatures written between 1959 and 1967 as an attempt to express St John of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…