Granados: Piano Works / Xiayin Wang

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
February 2, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GRANADOS, ENRIQUE
    • PERFORMER
      Xiayin Wang
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 02, 2018
    • UPC
      095115199527
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10995
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Los requiebros

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    2. No. 2. Coloquio en la reja, duo de amor

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    3. No. 3. El fandango de candil

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    4. No. 4. Quejas, ó La maja y el ruiseñor

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    5. No. 5. El amor y la muerte

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    6. No. 6. Epilogo: Serenata del espectro

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    7. 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles: No. 6. Zapateado

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    8. Introduction: Vivace molto

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    9. No. 1. Melodico

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    10. No. 2. Tempo de Vals noble

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    11. No. 3. Tempo de Vals lento

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    12. No. 4. Allegro humoristico

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    13. No. 5. Allegretto: Elegante

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    14. No. 6. Quasi ad libitum: Sentimental

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    15. No. 7. Vivo

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    16. No. 8. Presto

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    17. Tempo de Valse

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang

    18. Allegro de concierto, Op. 46

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Xiayin Wang


A pianist of keen musicality and sweeping virtuosity, Xiayin Wang returns to solo repertoire with this fascinating exploration of works by Enrique Granados, revealing a technically challenging and complex musical language, yet full of color and emotional intensity. Perhaps because the source of their inspiration was so close to the composer’s heart, the Goyescas piano pieces are the most liberated examples of the genius of Granados. “I have written,” he said, without exaggeration, “a collection of great sweep and difficulty,” which Xiayin Wang addresses with complete mastery. Across the repertoire featured here, this album reveals the genius of Granados, a composer of wide contrast whose music deserves to be heard more often. While the brilliance of Granados as a composer of piano music in a more conventional idiom is convincingly exemplified in the Allegro de concierto and in Zapateado, inspired by Andalusian flamenco, the Ochos Valses poeticos are unique and uncharacteristic in that they are neither virtuosic in their piano scoring nor Spanish in style.

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REVIEW:

Both books of Goyescas are essentially sensual and/or passionate love poems, something that she conveys with sensitivity and obvious affection.

– Gramophone