Isaac Albéniz: La guitarra soñada
4 11 2008
The commemoration in 2009 of the centenary of the death of Isaac Albéniz will be a great opportunity to review the work of one of greatest Spanish music geniuses of all time.
In this respect, for the first time we are able to listen to the transcription for solo guitar of some parts of Iberia, one of the most important piano masterpieces of European music.
The Cordovan guitarist Javier Riba offers us the world debut of the arrangements of Evocación, El puerto and AlmerÃa, altogether in the tradition initiated by the maestros Francesc Tà rrega and Miquel Llobet.
In addition to Ibèria, the recording includes Capricho catalán, Preludio and Tango (España), the parts Cuba and Granada from the Suite española, all of them arranged by Riba himself, and the already classic transcriptions by Tà rrega and Llobet of the Pavana and the Serenata española.
It is worth mentioning the sleeve notes, written by the prestigious musicologist specialised in Albéniz, Walter Clark, where he draws attention to the fact that Albéniz’s piano works have become one of the central parts of the guitar repertory par excellence.
1. Evocación
2. El puerto
3. Granada
¿Quieres que te informemos de las últimas novedades?
Un disco precioso. ¿de quién és el cuadro de la portada?
TFG.
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La portada es de un cuadro de Julio Romero de Torres, “Gitana”, de 1929.
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