Albeniz: Piano Concerto No 1
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Our Spanish Music series (La Música de España) with the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena, its Spanish chief conductor and a specialist in the repertoire, now reaches the music of Isaac Albéniz, one of the greatest Spanish composers of any era. Highly colourful and subtly contrasted, the Suite española is perhaps the most interesting early anticipation of the great piano collection Iberia, composed about twenty years later, in which, as Debussy remarked, Albéniz 'put the best of himself'. Brilliantly successful though he was as a pianist and composer of piano music, Albeniz also composed operas, having his first success with The Magic Opal, in London, three orchestral movements from which feature here. The soloist in the Concierto fantástico is the British pianist Martin Roscoe, already highly praised for his many past recordings for Chandos, on which he features with artists such as Tasmin Little and Jennifer Pike. Written at the same time as the Piano Concerto yet very different in style, Rapsodia española positively celebrates the Spanish idiom - all the more vividly in the orchestration by George Enescu, chosen for this recording. The piano soloist, again, is Martin Roscoe.
Tracklisting
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
Dame Sarah Connolly; Joseph Middleton
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Barry Douglas
Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Eva Ollikainen
Madeleine Dring; Julius Drake
Neave Trio
Rolf Gupta & Oslo filharmonien
Ketil Bjornstad & Sandra Lied Haga
Vox Urbane
Sophie Dervaux, La Folia Barockorchester
Sergio Vartolo
Robert Plane (clarinet); Elias String Quaret, Gould Piano Trio; James Gilchrist (tenor); Tim Horton
Nordic Affect/Marco Casonato/Massimo Marchese/La Spagna baroque orchestra/Alejandro Marias
Michael Foyle, Iain Burnside