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Granados: Piano Works / Xiayin Wang
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Granados: Piano Works / Xiayin Wang

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Composer
GRANADOS, ENRIQUE
Artist
Xiayin Wang
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Feb 02, 2018
Catalog #
CHAN 10995
UPC
095115199527

About

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

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Los requiebros 08:08
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Los requiebros
    Duration
    08:08
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  2. 2 No. 2. Coloquio en la reja, duo de amor 09:51
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Coloquio en la reja, duo de amor
    Duration
    09:51
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  3. 3 No. 3. El fandango de candil 06:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. El fandango de candil
    Duration
    06:03
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  4. 4 No. 4. Quejas, ó La maja y el ruiseñor 05:42
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Quejas, ó La maja y el ruiseñor
    Duration
    05:42
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  5. 5 No. 5. El amor y la muerte 10:53
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. El amor y la muerte
    Duration
    10:53
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  6. 6 No. 6. Epilogo: Serenata del espectro 06:28
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Epilogo: Serenata del espectro
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  7. 7 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles: No. 6. Zapateado 04:06
    Track
    7
    Title
    6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles: No. 6. Zapateado
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  8. 8 Introduction: Vivace molto 01:13
    Track
    8
    Title
    Introduction: Vivace molto
    Duration
    01:13
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  9. 9 No. 1. Melodico 01:24
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 1. Melodico
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  10. 10 No. 2. Tempo de Vals noble 01:10
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 2. Tempo de Vals noble
    Duration
    01:10
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  11. 11 No. 3. Tempo de Vals lento 01:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 3. Tempo de Vals lento
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  12. 12 No. 4. Allegro humoristico 00:42
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 4. Allegro humoristico
    Duration
    00:42
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  13. 13 No. 5. Allegretto: Elegante 01:14
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 5. Allegretto: Elegante
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  14. 14 No. 6. Quasi ad libitum: Sentimental 01:05
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 6. Quasi ad libitum: Sentimental
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  15. 15 No. 7. Vivo 00:45
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 7. Vivo
    Duration
    00:45
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  16. 16 No. 8. Presto 00:30
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 8. Presto
    Duration
    00:30
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  17. 17 Tempo de Valse 01:30
    Track
    17
    Title
    Tempo de Valse
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang
  18. 18 Allegro de concierto, Op. 46 06:44
    Track
    18
    Title
    Allegro de concierto, Op. 46
    Duration
    06:44
    Composer
    Enrique Granados
    Performer
    Xiayin Wang