Granados Goyescas, Falla Obras Desconocidas, etc : Ortiz(P)

Granados: Goyescas
Granados: Allegro de Concierto
Falla: Tres Obras Desconocidas : Cancion / Danza de gnomos / Canto de los remeros del Volga

Cristina Ortiz, piano

Recorded 11/1989

As its name suggests, Goyescas are reactions in sound to one of Spain’s great painters, Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The subversive and imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso.

It also stimulated the creative imagination of Enrique Granados, who was in the van of attempts to create an authentically Spanish musical aesthetic at the end of the 19th-century. Goyescas is his late masterpiece, full of colour and sadness and wild changes of mood just as Goya’s art was. It also had a decisive influence on many subsequent composers, not all of them Spanish: perhaps no one followed more devotedly in the footsteps of Granados than Manuel de Falla, and Ortiz completes her recital with three little-known but charming miniatures.