Composer: Nicolás Ruiz Espadero
Performer: José Raúl López
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0544
Release: 2019
Size: 1.22 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
5 Grand Transcriptions
01. No. 5, La traviata
02. Preludio
5 Grands Transcriptions
03. No. 3, Un ballo in maschera, Op. 46
04. Innocence-caprice, Op. 23
5 Grands Transcriptions
05. No. 1, Poliuto
06. No. 2, Faust, Op. 51
07. Pureza y calma
08. Ossian Polka
09. Sur la tombe de Gottschalk, Op. 68
10. Valse ideale, Op. 60
11. Souvenir d’autrefois (Nocturne), Op. 11
5 Grands Transcriptions
12. No. 4, Il trovatore, Op. 44
In this second volume of his survey of Cuban composers for the piano, José Raúl López presents the work of Nicolás Ruiz Espadero (1832–90), the most prominent name in Cuban music in the second half of the nineteenth century, both at home and abroad. Espadero’s output ranges from delicate Chopinesque salon miniatures to barnstorming Lisztian operatic paraphrases that demand a fearsome virtuoso technique to do justice to their high-Romantic swagger.