Blancafort: Complete Songs, Vol. 2

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Naxos
Release Date
July 25, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Manuel Blancafort
    • PERFORMER
      Anna Alas i Jove, Maria del Mar Humanes, Aleix Vaque, Daniel Souto, Jordi Cornudella, Marta Carcelle
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 25, 2025
    • UPC
      747313917075
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8579170
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Cançó del vent gronxant les branques

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    2. No. 2. Cançó dalt del cingle

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    3. No. 3. Canço de l'hivern

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    4. No. 4. Cançó de l'adéu

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    5. No. 5. Cançó de l'arribada al cim

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    6. No. 6. Cançó de la tarda morint

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    7. No. 7. Cançó d'enyorança

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    8. No. 8. Cançó del silenci del capvespre

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    9. No. 9. Cançó del matí lluminós

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    10. Cançons per a infants: No. 1. S'ha perdut un anell (arr. M. Villalba from Jocs i danses al camp No. 1)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    11. Cançons per a infants: No. 2. Cant per anar a la guerra (arr. M. Villalba from Jocs i danses al camp No. 5)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    12. Cançons per a infants: No. 3. El bon Jesuset (version for voice and piano arr. from Cançons de muntanya No. 6)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    13. ¡Ojalá!

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    14. Remembrances (M. Villalba for voice and piano)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    15. Cançons tradicionals catalanes: No. 4. Muntanyes regalades (arr. M. Villalba for voice and piano)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    16. Cançons tradicionals catalanes: No. 5. Rossinyol que vas a França (arr. M. Villalba for voice and piano)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    17. Cançons tradicionals catalanes: No. 3. Senyora Isabel (arr. M. Villalba for voice and piano)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    18. Cançons tradicionals catalanes: No. 1. El mal ric (arr. M. Villalba for voice and piano)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    19. Cançons tradicionals catalanes: No. 2. La filla del Carmesí (arr. M. Villalba for voice and piano)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    20. Camí barrat

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    21. Serenata a l'infant

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Maria del Mar Humanes, Anna Alàs i Jové, Miquel Villalba

    22. L'aire del Montseny (version for voice, flute, oboe, clarinet and strings)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Aleix Vaqué, Daniel Souto, Jordi Cornudella, Maria Florea, Luis Peña, Ernest Martínez, Marta Carceller, Alfred Cots, Andrea Santiago, David Andújar, Patricia Torres, Nicolás Cobo, Eduard Raventós, Roger Azcona

    23. Cançons sentimentals: No. 2. El torrent

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Jordi Cornudella, Maria Florea, David Andújar, Marion Platero

    24. Cançons sentimentals: No. 1. Sonet penitencial

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Jordi Cornudella, Maria Florea, David Andújar, Marion Platero

    25. Cançons sentimentals: No. 3. Romanç del goig de tenir germana

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Jordi Cornudella, Maria Florea, David Andújar, Marion Platero

    26. Cançons de l'enyor: No. 2. Preguntes melangioses

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Maria Florea, Luis Peña, Ernest Martínez, Cèlia Johé, David Andújar, Gemma Pujol, Marion Platero, Eduard Raventós, Roger Azcona, Miquel Villalba

    27. Cançons de l'enyor: No. 1. Motius de cançó (version for voice, strings and piano)

      Composer: Manuel Blancafort

      Performer: Anna Alàs i Jové, Maria Florea, Luis Peña, Ernest Martínez, Cèlia Johé, David Andújar, Gemma Pujol, Marion Platero, Eduard Raventós, Roger Azcona, Miquel Villalba


Manuel Blancafort's music has a concise tonal directness that draws on his fondness for French composers. His Cancons are not simply evocative but embody an increasing use of the Noucentist aesthetic: the Catalan cultural movement of the early 20th century that was a reaction against Modernisme. Blancafort rejected the Romanticism and Wagnerian pathos of the modernist Lied in favour of Classicism and beauty - sentiments he shared with his Catalan contemporaries Toldra, Gerhard and Mompou. Intimate, sensitive and playful, his Catalan songs connect both to his country's past and also to a wider European musical culture.