Granados: Liliana, Suite oriental & Elisenda / Gonzalez, Barcelona Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
September 9, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GRANADOS, ENRIQUE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Barcelona Symphony & Catalonia National Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Gonzalez
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 09, 2016
    • UPC
      747313326570
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573265
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Concertos
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Preludio y Salutación al sol

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pablo González

    2. II. Liliana y los gnomos

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pablo González

    3. III. Canto de las ranas

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pablo González

    4. IV. Coro de sifos y farándula

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pablo González

    5. I. Ante el desierto

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pablo González

    6. II. Serenata

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pablo González

    7. III. Marcha oriental

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pablo González

    8. IV. Dos danzas

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Pablo González

    9. I. El jardín de Elisenda

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dani Espasa

      Conductor: Pablo González

    10. II. Trova

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dani Espasa

      Conductor: Pablo González

    11. III. Elisenda

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dani Espasa

      Conductor: Pablo González


In the last of his three volume series devoted to Granados's orchestral music, two very different compositional strands are explored. The early Suite oriental reveals his sense of vivid orchestral color and melodic imagination, couched in the exotic language of the time. Written in a more pared-down style, the one-act "lyric poem" Liliana, a collaboration with the writer Apelles Mestres, is a four-movement suite in which Granados conjures up a vivid, mythical world. Elisenda is another impressionistic score, both emotive and ethereal, here performed in its arrangement for piano and chamber orchestra.

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REVIEW:

Pablo González and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra respond, as they have throughout this series, with warmth and an attractively natural sense of how to turn a phrase. The woodwinds are the real stars, though: supple oboes with just a hint of nasal buzz.

– Gramophone