Composer: José Comellas
Performer: José Raúl López
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0347
Release: 2016
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Souvenir, Op. 1 “Song Without Words”
02. Grande valse pour le piano, Op. 4 “Vienne”
03. Nocturne, Op. 12 “Far Away”
04. Mazurka, Op. 26 “The 5 Roses”
05. Élégie sur la tombe de ces deux Héros, Op. 3 “Washington et Lincoln”
06. Mazurka, Op. 10 “Natalie”
07. Nocturne, Op. 25 “Le retour”
Sonate brillante in G Minor, Op. 21
08. I. Allegro risoluto
09. II. Andante
10. III. Allegro vivo
11. Nocturne, Op. 24
12. Little Polka “Christmas Toys”
Cuba’s heritage of classical music is composed largely of three strands: the inheritance of colonial times and the subsequent influence of African and European musicians. But even after three hundred years of development, most Cuban composers remain unknown to international audiences. This first recording in a series intended to uncover some of those lost voices presents piano pieces by José Comellas (1842–88), of Catalan descent. Most of them are salon works that blend Chopin and Gottschalk to charm the listener, but Comellas’s ambitions also went further, with the first sonata published by any Cuban composer.