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Granados: Goyescas & Escenas Poeticas / Celis

$21.99

Details

Composer
GRANADOS, ENRIQUE
Artist
Joop Celis
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Feb 12, 2016
Catalog #
BIS-2122
UPC
7318599921228

About

Enrique Granados is today best remembered for his Goyescas suite for solo piano, inspired by the art and times of Francisco de Goya. Granados first came under the spell of Goya in 1896 while viewing an exhibition of his works. In particular, the bohemian characters of the majo and maja that had captivated Goya came to dominate the highly romanticized image of old Madrid embraced by Granados. Although the inspiration from Goya is readily acknowledged it is only two of the six pieces that make up Goyescas that can be related to specific works by the painter: No.1 Los requiebros (The Flirtations) and No.5 El amor y la muerte (Love and Death) were both inspired by etchings from the celebrated series of Caprichos. Another image by Goya, of four young girls playing with a life-sized puppet made of straw, formed the inspiration for El pelele (The straw man), which Granados composed after the suite and gave the subtitle ‘escena goyesca’.

Performing these wonderfully sensuous works is the Dutch pianist Joop Celis, who here makes his first appearance on BIS, but who has earned plaudits for previous recordings, for instance in International Record Reviewer: ‘He dispatches the heroic and virtuosic with ease, yet his playing displays a great sensitivity to the more romantic side…’ On this well-filled disc, Celis also includes Granados’s collection of seven ‘Poetic scenes’ as well as the brief Intermezzo which Granados composed for his opera Goyescas, a work in one act otherwise based on the music from the suite for piano. The opera was premièred in New York in 1916, and it was on his journey home to Spain that Granados died, when the ship he was travelling on was torpedoed in the English Channel.

Review:

Celis unsurprisingly navigates Granados's labyrinthine textures with no sweat and strain, and with a beautiful, evenly modulated sonority to boot…interestingly, the relatively modest technical and musical parameters of Escenas poeticas elicit more consistently inspired and organically poetic playing…in short, Goyescas may get star billing, yet the Escenas poeticas walk away with top honors.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Los requiebros 08:31
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Los requiebros
    Duration
    08:31
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  2. 2 No. 2. Coloquio en la reja, duo de amor 10:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Coloquio en la reja, duo de amor
    Duration
    10:00
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  3. 3 No. 3. El fandango de candil 06:17
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. El fandango de candil
    Duration
    06:17
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  4. 4 No. 4. Quejas, o La maja y el ruisenor 06:03
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Quejas, o La maja y el ruisenor
    Duration
    06:03
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  5. 5 No. 5. El amor y la muerte 11:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. El amor y la muerte
    Duration
    11:43
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  6. 6 No. 6. Epilogo: Serenata del espectro 07:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Epilogo: Serenata del espectro
    Duration
    07:35
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  7. 7 No. 1. Berceuse 03:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Berceuse
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  8. 8 No. 2. Eva y Walter 02:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Eva y Walter
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  9. 9 No. 3. Danza de la rosa 01:24
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3. Danza de la rosa
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  10. 10 No. 1. Recuerdos de paisajes lejanos 01:45
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 1. Recuerdos de paisajes lejanos
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  11. 11 No. 2. El angel de los claustros 03:12
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 2. El angel de los claustros
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  12. 12 No. 3. Cancion de Margarita 01:47
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 3. Cancion de Margarita
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  13. 13 No. 4. Suenos del poeta 02:56
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 4. Suenos del poeta
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  14. 14 Intermezzo de la Opera Goyescas 03:53
    Track
    14
    Title
    Intermezzo de la Opera Goyescas
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis
  15. 15 El pelele (Escena goyesca) 04:18
    Track
    15
    Title
    El pelele (Escena goyesca)
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Joop Celis