Composer: Isaac Albéniz
Performer: Miguel Baselga
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BISCD1953
Release: 2012
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Chant d’Espagne, Op. 232
01. No. 1, Prelude
02. No. 2, Orientale
03. No. 3, Under the Palm Tree
04. No. 4, Cordoba
05. No. 5, Seguidillas
6 Mazurkas de salón, op. 66
06. No. 1, Isabel
07. No. 2, Casilda
08. No. 3, Aurora
09. No. 4, Sofia
10. No. 5, Christa
11. No. 6, Maria
Deseo, Op. 40
12. Deseo, estudio de concierto, Op. 40
13. L’automne valse, Op. 170
14. Marcha militar
15. Improvisation (arr. M.R. Laufer for piano)
Yvonne en visite
16. I. La reverence!
17. II. Joyeuse rencontre et quelques penibles evenements!
Miguel Baselga continues his traversal of the piano music by Isaac Albéniz, on this disc concentrating on his earlier works, including Marcha militar, the very first piece that Albéniz is known to have composed.
The Six Mazurkas de salon give us a taste of the salon-type music that Albéniz often included in his own recital programmes. The mazurkas were written for (and named after) six of Albéniz’s piano pupils.
The most familiar work here is Chants d’Espagne, partly because two of its five movements also appear in another work, Suite Espagnole.
The programme also includes a transcription published in 2009 and the humorous Yvonne en visite!, in which the composer describes in music the nervousness of a small girl forced by her mother to play for him.