Mompou: 12 Preludes / Suburbis / Cants Magics

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Cat No: 8554448

Release Date: 01 January 2000

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 636943444825

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOMPOU

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Frederic Mompou(1893-1987)Piano Music Volume 2Preludes; Suburbis;Dialogues; Cants m?ágics; Chanson de berceau F?¬tes lointainesIt is not easy to explain the long period of extremely sparseproductivity that followed only two years after Mompou's triumphant acclaim inParis. The composer, who from his first recognised work, Impresionesintimas, (1911-1914), had composed at least one important work for thepiano every year, saw his great moment arrive when his teacher, FerdinandMotte-?¡Lacroix, played sc?¿nes d'enfants and other works in the SalleErard on 15th April 1921. That success was endorsed exactly one week later inthe well-known article by the prestigious critic, Emile Vuillermoz, whoproclaimed Mompou as the only true successor to Debussy. However, from 1923 therate of appearance of new works fell considerably and, in the words of ClaraJanes, the 1930s were a 'wasteland'.Among the most notable of Mompou's works written in the middle of the1920s are the first six Preludes, the beginning of a set which grewirregularly in number over a period of more than thirty years, eventually to becompleted with a further six. The use of the title Prelude suggests thatin creating his ideal sound world Mompou was influenced by Debussy and Chopin,whose 24 Preludes was to serve as a theme for Mompou's Variations, oneof his most ambitious works.The first four Preludes were composed between 1927 and 1928.After the more concentrated character of the first (Dans le styleramance), the second is a succession of kaleidoscopic scenes and situationswithout actually telling us what is being described. The distant return of theinitial melody at the end of the piece is reminiscent of Debussy's Preludes.The third Prelude develops melodic fragments of a simple melancholywhile the fourth and last of this first set has something of the archaicharmonics and popular themes of Can?ºons i danses.In 1930 Mompou composed two more Preludes, the fifth, also closein form and style to Can?ºons i danses, and the sixth for the lefthand. The composer himself affirmed that the basic material of the compositionwas suggested to him as he played casually on the piano while talking to theCatalan guitarist Miquel Llobet Much later, in 1931, the seventh was composed,the only one which carries a descriptive title: Palmier d'etoiles (literally,palm tree of stars, one of the most spectacular kinds of firework). These feuxd'artifice are seen as clearly as those in Debussy's own Preludes yetthey possess a charm of their own and evoke the magic which fireworks have forthose born on Spain's eastern coast. The eighth and ninth Preludes werewritten in 1943 and the tenth in 1944.For the publication of the second book in 1952, however, the presentorder was chosen. No. 8 extracts the composer's usual sonorities fromthe development of a simple cell of two notes. The following Prelude showsthe influence of both Chopin and Scriabin. The tenth, from 1944, starts withenergetic chords leading to a quieter, more sing
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